Joint energy and water management scheme for water supply systems in Romania

Autor: Delcea Aida, Bitir-Istrate Ioan, Pătraşcu Roxana, Gheorghiu Cristian
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: E3S Web of Conferences, Vol 85, p 06008 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2267-1242
DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20198506008
Popis: Keeping in mind the short-term and long-term aims of cost depletion and sustainable development respectively, a joint water and energy management scheme for water supply systems that leads to reduced energy losses is proposed. For water utilities, drinkable water's treatment and pumping and wastewater treatment are the main energy-consuming processes and a proportional part of this energy is wasted with non-revenue water. In Romania, these losses can reach critical levels so highlighting them becomes a crucial aspect in assessing the system's efficiency. This paper presents a scheme that combines energy audit and water balance techniques that can become a tool for both energy auditors and managers, by allowing the quantification of embedded energy of water losses. The methodology is adapted for the conditions in Romania, where data collection and processing is mainly done manually.
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