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Safely landing water networks during power outages with energy storage

Abstract

One of the main causes of water hammer in water networks is power outages. Water hammer is usually mitigated with surge tanks and by mechanically interfacing flywheels with pumps. We propose to use electrical energy storage to keep pumps operational through power outages. We formulate a safe landing problem, in which the pressures and flows are brought to zero without damaging the network and before the storage runs out of energy. We show results from a preliminary numerical study for a single pipe system.

Authors

Taylor JA; Perryman R; Bazylak A; Karney B

Volume

00

Pagination

pp. 346-350

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publication Date

October 5, 2018

DOI

10.1109/allerton.2018.8635893

Name of conference

2018 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton)

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

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