Simulation of the Partial Load Operation of an Urban Groundwater Well Field

Our study points on a small groundwater well field of Arad City (Romania). We built in EPANET a model of the Mandruloc groundwater well field (13 wells). Due to the metering of the consumers, the demand dropped, so the well field is working at partial loads. We simulated the operation of the well fi...

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Published inProcedia engineering Vol. 119; pp. 1147 - 1152
Main Authors Anton, Anton, Georgescu, Andrei-Mugur, Perju, Sorin, Georgescu, Sanda-Carmen, Cosoiu, Costin Ioan, Hasegan, Liviu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2015
Subjects
EPANET
Groundwater well field
orifice plates
partial load
variable speed driven pumps
orifice plates
Groundwater well field
partial load
EPANET
variable speed driven pumps
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Summary:Our study points on a small groundwater well field of Arad City (Romania). We built in EPANET a model of the Mandruloc groundwater well field (13 wells). Due to the metering of the consumers, the demand dropped, so the well field is working at partial loads. We simulated the operation of the well field, by stopping 3 and 6 successive wells, placed at different positions. To avoid the wells overcharge, calculations were performed assuming that pumps run at variable speed. The proposed pumping algorithm gives better results with respect to a previous solution with orifice plates.
ISSN:1877-7058
1877-7058
DOI:10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.962