Hydraulic Analysis and Simulation of Dumas Village Water Distribution Network Using EPANET
摘要
Effectual water supply (WS) is of utmost importance in designing a new water distribution network (WDN) or in enlarging the prevailing one. To ensure adequate WS with required pressure, analysis of existing WDN is crucial. None of the reviewed studies have examined the WDN of the Dumas village in Surat City, Surat District, Gujarat, India. Thus, in the present study, EPANET software is used for analysing the WDN of the Dumas village. From the analysis of aforesaid WDN, it was found that, demand values are varying between 1.12 litres per second (LPS) and 42.58 LPS while pressure values are ranging from 53.41 m to 57.02 m. Flow values are varying from 2.24 LPS to 505.55 LPS, velocity values are ranging from 0.12 metre/second (m/s) to 1.79 m/s and unit head loss values are varying from 0.09 metre/kilometre (m/km) to 4.37 m/km. From the analysis, it is found that, the existing WDN can fulfil the water demand at all nodes for the year 2044.