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Record W2050732669 · doi:10.2495/ws130161

Optimal operation of water pumping stations

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Dhafar Al-Ani, Saeid Habibi

Bibliographic record

VenueWIT transactions on ecology and the environment · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicWater Systems and Optimization
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceElectricityReliability (semiconductor)Energy consumptionScheduling (production processes)Differential evolutionTotal costWater supplyMathematical optimizationReliability engineeringEnvironmental scienceEngineeringEnvironmental engineeringPower (physics)Business

Abstract

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In water distribution applications, energy cost is one of the most important cost components in which large amounts of electricity are required to pump, transport, and supply water to both domestic and businesses districts. These applications are heavily dependent upon energy costs. Although, there are many optimization methodologies that can theoretically maximize energy cost savings, but there are none (yet) that have practically succeeded. Therefore, the goal of the new optimization strategies should not be only to solve the energyoptimization problems, but also to have constraints criteria that seek for the design and management of the water distribution systems. Some of these strategies can be used: (a) to improve the operation of pumping stations for a given water demand; (b) to include a regulating reservoir between the water supply source and the delivery system; and (c) to control water level in tanks and reservoir to prevent overflow and draining. Such initiatives are likely to be more successful if they involve a role of maintaining the safety and the reliability of the pumping station while optimizing its operation. A novel strategy that can result in minimum operation costs and can lead to less energy consumption and then utility bills is proposed in this paper. In this strategy, a new heuristic algorithm, referred to as the Adaptive Parallel Multi-objective Differential Evolution (AP-MODE), is developed and used for: (a) selecting the lowest cost or optimum pump combinations (i.e., optimal pump scheduling) in water distribution systems; (b) evaluating the total energy costs required to operate the network; and (c) determining the reservoir storage capacity (i.e., optimal reservoir operation) to store water that is pumped during peak-off hours to be used during peak periods. This strategy is applied to the water distribution system of one rural district located in Saskatoon City, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.566
Threshold uncertainty score0.589

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.003
GPT teacher head0.144
Teacher spread0.141 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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