A decision support system to design water supply and sewer pipes replacement intervention programs

Autor: Pablo Aparicio-Ruiz, Luis Onieva, Jesús Muñuzuri, Cristóbal Ramos-Salgado
Přispěvatelé: Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Organización Industrial y Gestión de Empresas II
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Popis: Article number 107967 Asset management in hydraulic infrastructures aims for the long-term sustainability of water distribution and wastewater networks. Strategic maintenance planning has thus been deeply analyzed in the literature for indi vidual water and sewer pipes. However, water utilities do not plan and perform replacement activities on in dividual elements, but rather on coherent aggregations of neighboring pipes. We have developed a decision support system (DSS) to help water utilities design intervention programs for hydraulic infrastructures. It in tegrates a two-stage algorithm that groups water supply and sewer pipes into practical and efficient replacement works, based upon their proximity and their priority of renewal. A multi-objective genetic algorithm optimizes the work programs configurations while integrating the water company’s strategic policy into an innovative multi-objective function. We have applied our methodology to a large water company in Spain and illustrated this application with a sensitivity analysis to determine how the company’s strategic criteria influences the resulting work configurations. Empresa Metropolitana de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento de Aguas de Sevilla (EMASESA) 273/17, 286/17
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