Design of surge tank for water supply systems using the impulse response method with the GA algorithm |
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Authors: | Kim Sang-Hyun |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, The University of Liverpool, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GJ, UK |
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Abstract: | The impact of the surge tank has been incorporated into the platform of the impulse response method. The impedance functions
for pipeline systems equipped with a surge tank were also derived. Hydraulic transients could be efficiently analyzed by the
developed method. The simulation of normalized pressure variation using the method of characteristics and the impulse response
method shows good agreement only in the condition of an identical computational interval between pipeline elements and that
of the surge tank connector. The important numerical issue, the Courant number condition, of the traditional grid-based approaches
can introduce substantial difficulty for optimization of surge tank parameters. The surge tank design could be performed by
incorporation of the impulse response method with the Genetic Algorithm (GA). The objective functions for the surge tank design
can be made using the pressure-head response at any point along the pipeline system while considering both the security and
cost of the system. Substantial flexibility in the design of surge tank parameters, such as the location in the pipeline,
the length of the connector, and the diameters for the connector and the surge tank can be found during the optimization procedure. |
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