WATER DISTRIBUTION

摘要

The invention provides approaches for optimising pump usage within a water distribution system. One approach involves considering combinations of physical pumps as single logical pumps to simplify the pump scheduling optimisation problem. Another approach relates to selection of an operating speed for a variable speed drive pump that is used to distribute fluid within a fluid distribution system at a given head. Yet another approach predicts fluid demand by controlling the extent to which estimated demand deviates from actual demand of a fluid.