Source to tap urban water cycle modelling

Rozos, Evangelos; Makropoulos, Christos

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.11.015

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“…The actual demand is not calculated by the ABM, but by the Urban Water Optioneering Tool (UWOT) (bottom righthand side of Fig. 1) (Makropoulos et al 2008a), which simulates the complete urban water cycle at multiple scales (household, neighbourhood, city) from the source (reservoir or water body) to the tap (Rozos & Makropoulos 2013). The individual modules are briefly described below.…”

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“…It has been argued (Domènech & Saurí 2010;) that moving to more decentralized urban water management solutions (including, for example, low water using appliances, rainwater harvesting (RWH), greywater recycling (GWRC), sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS), bluegreen infrastructure, etc.) and indeed a more wateraware (or else water-sensitive) approach to city planning (Wong 2006;Rozos & Makropoulos 2013) is a rational way forward to address, in a truly metabolism-minded fashion, the water challenges to be faced by the cities of tomorrow.…”

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Thinking platforms for smarter urban water systems: fusing technical and socio-economic models and tools

Makropoulos

2014

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Engineering is currently expanding its conceptual boundaries by accepting the challenge of interdisciplinarity, while often adopting social and biological concepts in developing tools (e.g. evolutionary optimization or interactive autonomous agents) or even world views (e.g. co-evolution, resilience, adaptation). The emerging socio-technical knowledge domain is still very much restricted by partial knowledge associated with the lack of long-term transdisciplinary research effort and the unavailability of robust, integrated tools able to cover both the technical and the socio-economic domains and to act as 'thinking platforms' for long-term scenario planning and strategic decision making under (high-order) uncertainties. Here we present an example of a toolkit that attempts to bridge this gap focusing on urban water (UW) systems and their management. The toolkit consists of three tools: the UW Optioneering Tool (UWOT); the UW Agent Based Modelling Platform (UWABM); and the UW System Dynamic Environment (UWSDE). The tools are briefly presented and discussed, focusing on interactions and data flows between them and their typical results are illustrated through a case study example. A further tool (a Cellular Automata Based Urban Growth Model) is currently under development and an early coupling with the other tools is also discussed. It is argued that this type of extended model fusion, beyond what has traditionally been thought of as 'integrated modelling' in the engineering domain is a new frontier in the understanding of environmental systems and presents a promising, emerging field in modelling interactions between our societies and cities, and our environment.

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“…To create possible scenarios, UWOT has an Excel library with nine applications for microcomponents, two for intermediate levels, and four for the top level. The conditions, operations, and design of each of these applications can be modified [9,100].…”

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Urban Water Cycle Simulation/Management Models: A Review

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Urban water management is increasingly important given the need to maintain water resources that comply with global and local standards of quantity and quality. The effective management of water resources requires the optimization of financial resources without forsaking social requirements. A number of mathematical models have been developed for this task; such models account for all components of the Urban Water Cycle (UWC) and their interactions. The wide range of models entails the need to understand their differences in an effort to identify their applicability, so academic, state, and private sectors can employ them for environmental, economic, and social ends. This article presents a description of the UWC and relevant components, a literature review of different models developed between 1990 and 2015, and an analysis of several case studies (applications). It was found that most applications are focused on new supply sources, mainly rainwater. In brief, this article provides an overview of each model's use (primarily within academia) and potential use as a decision-making tool.Keywords: urban water cycle; integrated management of urban water; computational models

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“…This model does not incorporate any optimization procedure, only analysis of different options developed by the user. Makropoulos et al (2008), with further developments in Rozos and Makropoulos (2013), produced a decision-support tool for modeling the urban water system from source to tap. The software can be used to select combinations of water saving strategies and technologies, including how much water from each type of demand (for example domestic, commercial) is obtained from each source and how the system is operated.…”

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Framework for the optimization of operation and design of systems with different alternative water sources

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Water security has become an increasing concern for many water system managers due to climate change and increased population. In order to improve the security of supply, alternative sources such as harvested stormwater, recycled wastewater and desalination are becoming more commonly used. This brings about the need for tools to analyze and optimize systems that use such sources, which are generally more complex than traditional water systems. Previous methodologies have been limited in their scope and cannot be applied to all types of water sources and systems. The framework presented in this paper has been developed for holistic analysis and optimization of water supply and distribution systems that use alternative water sources. It includes both design and operational decision variables, water and energy infrastructure, simulation of systems, analysis of constraints and objectives, as well as policies and regulations which may affect any of these factors. This framework will allow users to develop a comprehensive analysis and/or optimization of their water supply system, taking into account multiple types of water sources and consumers, the effect of their own design and operational decisions, and the impact of government policies and different energy supply options. Two case study systems illustrate the application of the framework; the first case study is a harvested stormwater system that is used to demonstrate the importance of simulation and analysis prior to optimization, the second utilizes four different water sources to increase security of supply and was optimized to reduce pump energy use.

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Source to tap urban water cycle modelling

Cited by 78 publications

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Thinking platforms for smarter urban water systems: fusing technical and socio-economic models and tools

Thinking platforms for smarter urban water systems: fusing technical and socio-economic models and tools

Urban Water Cycle Simulation/Management Models: A Review

Framework for the optimization of operation and design of systems with different alternative water sources

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