Enhanced Water Age Performance Assessment in Distribution Networks

Water age is frequently used as a surrogate for water quality in distribution networks and often included modelling optimisation studies, though there are no reference values or standard performance functions assessing the network behaviour regarding age. This paper presents novel methodology obtaining enhanced system-specific assessment functions, tailored each network. The based on establishment of relationships between chlorine concentration at sampling nodes simulated proposed demonstrated through application to two systems winter summer seasons. Obtained results show major improvement comparison with those obtained by published since limits herein analysed networks. demonstrates that development network-specific powerful tool more robustly reliably defining goals evaluating system under different operating conditions.