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Pretty much everyone who has worked in water distribution has been involved with hydrant flow testing at one time or another. It’s not very difficult. Place a pressure gauge on a residual hydrant and flow a nearby hydrant while recording...
While writing research papers on how real-time control has become a major industry in academia, Tom has not seen a great deal of RTC applied in real systems....
Pump stations are fed by the power grid, so when the power goes out, it also goes out for water pumping stations. And water utilities don’t like their systems losing pressure....
The Blackwell Group is a multidisciplinary engineering firm located in Virginia that performs work in the residential, commercial, and government sectors. Stormwater design and site grading are just a few of the many services that Blackwell Group offers. In a...
In many cases, the modeler can simply grab the latest calibrated model from the master planning study and apply it to address an operational problem. However, water and wastewater systems are constantly evolving as new facilities are brought online, customers...
I recently returned from the 2022 AWWA Annual Conference. Two popular trends discussed at the conference were real-time modeling and digital twins. Which made me want to go back in time and find out where those concepts originated....