JavaScript appears to be disabled on this computer. Please click here to see any active alerts. Protecting and maintaining drinking water distribution systems is crucial to ensuring high quality drinking water. The purpose of a water distribution system is to deliver water to consumers with appropriate quality, quantity, and pressure, from its source to the point of use. The optimal management of these systems requires data and information, including a digital model of the water system depicting its pipes, valves, pumps, tanks, and other attributes.
Lewis Rossman, an environmental engineer, created EPANET, a user-friendly software application for modeling the hydraulic and water quality behavior of distribution systems.
Furthermore, it allows the control of network components using complex rules. The application is capable of generating simple project summary reports, as well as more complex reports regarding energy consumption, calibration, reactions and more.
The water quality analyzer enables you to keep an eye on the age of water throughout the network, track the water flow, model reactions in the pipe wall, determine the global reaction rate coefficient.
The application provides advanced map appearance customization options, with possibilities to change element colors, their size, adding labels, symbols or modifying the background.
EPANET finds its practical use in everyday life, helping water companies enhance the water quality and optimize their costs. It can also be used to model contamination threats and evaluate resilience to security threats or natural disasters.
Continued development and bug fixes are occurring under an open source project site in GitHub. With EPANET, users can perform extended-period simulation of the hydraulic and water quality behavior within pressurized pipe networks, which consist of pipes, nodes junctions , pumps, valves, storage tanks, and reservoirs. It can be used to track the flow of water in each pipe, the pressure at each node, the height of the water in each tank, a chemical concentration, the age of the water, and source tracing throughout the network during a simulation period.
EPANET's user interface provides a visual network editor that simplifies the process of building pipe network models and editing their properties and data. Various data reporting and visualization tools are used to assist in interpreting the results of a network analysis, including color-coded network maps, data tables, energy usage, reaction, calibration, time series graphs, and profile and contour plots.
Full-featured and accurate hydraulic modeling is a prerequisite for doing effective water quality modeling. EPANET contains a state-of-the-art hydraulic analysis engine that includes the following capabilities:.
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