With many complex customers and more frequent company wide demand events, it is often difficult to track exactly where all the water in distribution networks is going. This makes day to day business activities increasingly challenging, even for experienced practitioners. Including, deciding how much water to produce, managing the movement water around networks, and separating leakage from demand. Paradigm is a forecasting model which solves this problem by providing users with a detailed demand breakdown for hydraulic areas and the ability to predict consumptions and expected burst flows. This prediction is undertaken at District Metered Area (DMA) level, with each DMA’s demand constructed using its component parts. This allows the user to immediately identify internal data sets that do not match the expected net flow profile for an area. Paradigm then supports the interrogation of this information, using intuitive techniques to identify likely causes of these problems.
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Dynamo Services
Dynamo takes data from pressure and flow logging points and provides both reactive analysis for emerging network events and support for proactive investigations, giving clients a greater understanding of their network configuration, customer demand and leakage. Dynamo is a software solution which receives data directly from clients’ logger providers, ensuring we can deliver analysis in as close to real time as possible.
Acoustic Analysis Services
The prevalence of acoustic logging in the UK has surged over the past 5 years, with significant investment in permanent fleets of acoustic loggers across much of the UK’s water networks. We specialise in making sure our clients are getting the most out of their fleets by making sure their analysts have the right information to make informed decisions.
Pressure Management Services
Pressure management has traditionally been seen as a highly effective solution, delivering quick wins for reducing leakage, and there are many great examples across the UK of pressure reducing valves delivering an excellent return on investment. Typically, these valves can significantly reduce the overall pressure in a network as well as delivering a calmer profile. Both of these effects work to reduce the number of bursts occurring as well as reducing flow rates for existing bursts and background leakage. However, with 2018 and 2020 seeing some of largest peak demands on recent record, many of the schemes installed in the UK are increasingly being challenged by frequent summer demand events. During these events the operation of our pressure reducing valves can come under increasing scrutiny as head losses increase and overall network pressures drop.
Pressure Transients Services
Advances in data logging technology for the past 10 years have significantly improved water companies’ awareness of pressure transients on their network. However, as an industry we are still understanding their causes, how best to monitor for them, and the impact they can have on asset life. Whilst significant transients can cause immediate bursts on water networks, we also need to be conscious of the impact that smaller, more frequent transients have to damage our assets.