Articles | Volume 5, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-5-67-2012
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Abnormal quality detection and isolation in water distribution networks using simulation models
Abstract. This paper proposes a model based detection and localisation method to deal with abnormal quality levels based on the chlorine measurements and chlorine sensitivity analysis in a water distribution network. A fault isolation algorithm which correlates on line the residuals (generated by comparing the available chlorine measurements with their estimations using a model) with the fault sensitivity matrix is used. The proposed methodology has been applied to a District Metered Area (DMA) in the Barcelona network.