The current international trend in distribution networks is towards increased monitoring. This trend is being driven by distribution network operators (DNOs) who hope that through increased monitoring, they will be able to optimise capital and operational expenditure and thus operate a more efficient networks. One of the key areas of focus relating to the increased interest in distribution network monitoring is power quality. Power quality disturbances affect consumers by interrupting equipment or halting industrial processes and can result in very significant financial losses. DNOs are also financially impacted by power quality issues if they breach regulatory limits or contractual arrangements. To extract value from power quality monitoring, DNOs must process and then interpret data from a variety monitoring devices placed at different locations all potentially measuring different quantities. The challenge of how best to extract useful and practical power quality information from disparate monitoring devices is the subject of this thesis. This thesis describes and develops monitoring techniques for two power quality phenomena: voltage sags and unbalance. The research presents new techniques which can graphically identify the weakest areas and the worst served customers for voltage sags and unbalance. All the developed techniques utilise non-deterministic methods (such as statistics and artificial intelligence) to deal robustly with network and measurement uncertainties. This thesis can be dissected into four areas: voltage sag monitoring, optimal power quality monitor placement, voltage unbalance monitoring and identification of the weakest areas and worst served customers for both issues. The first section of this thesis is dedicated to voltage sags. This section introduces a multi-step process to identify and estimate the impacts of voltage sags within networks. The first stage in this process is classification and detection where several different classification methods (including immune inspired techniques) are compared to determine which algorithms work best under the context of limited monitoring. The research then proposes a novel robust method for performing fault location and voltage sag profile estimation using multiple monitors. The method pays particular attention to the errors in measurement inputs and identifies the most likely location for both the fault location and the voltage magnitude using statistical methods. The voltage sag monitoring research concludes by defining the probable impacts of voltage sags on customers, and by introducing a new measure known as the sag trip probability. The second major section covered by this thesis is optimal monitor placement. This thesis presents a comprehensive methodology which enables network operators to place monitors in locations best suited for voltage sag monitoring based on future likely topological and loading changes. The third major section covered by this thesis is unbalance monitoring. A three phase distribution system state estimation model is developed which can estimate the location and impact of unbalance within the network, without assuming the loading is balanced. The final section of this thesis shows how the worst served customers and the weakest areas of the network can be identified presents for both voltage sag and unbalance using limited monitoring and the developed techniques. The results are presented graphically using a series of topological heat maps, and these show visually how the techniques could work to monitor a distribution network.

Although power system reliability analysis is a mature research area, there is a renewed interest in updating available network models and formulating improved reliability assessment procedures. The main driver of this interest is the current transition to a new flexible and actively controlled power supply system with a high penetration of distributed generation (DG) and energy storage (ES) technologies, wider implementation of demand-side management (DSM) and application of automated control, monitoring, protection and communication infrastructures. One of the aims of this new electricity supply network (’the smart grid’) is an improved reliability and power quality performance, realised through the delivery of an uninterrupted and high-quality supply of electrical energy. However, there is currently no integrated methodology to measure the effects of these changes on the overall system reliability performance. This PhD research aims to update the standard power system simulation engine with improved numerical software models offering new capabilities for the correct assessment of quality of supply in future electricity networks. The standard reliability analysis is extended to integrate some relevant power quality aspects, enabling the classification of short and long supply interruptions by the correct modelling of network protection and reconfiguration schemes. In addition, the work investigates the formulation and analysis of updated reliability indicators for a more accurate validation and benchmarking of both system and end-user performance. A detailed database with typical configurations and parameters of UK/European power systems is established, providing a set of generic models that can correctly represent actual distribution networks supplying a mix of residential, commercial and industrial demand for different load sectors. A general methodology for reducing system complexity by calculating both electrical and reliability equivalent models of LV and MV distribution networks is also presented. These equivalent models, based on the aggregation of individual component models, help to reduce calculation times while preserving the accuracy assessment of network’s reliability performance at bulk supply points. In addition, the aggregated counterparts (same and mixed-type) of different ’smart’ component models (DG, ES and DSM) are also included in the analysis, showing how their co-ordinated implementation and control could improve quality of supply. Conventional reliability assessment procedures are also extended in this thesis to include accurate reliability equivalent models, network contingency statistics, actual load profiles and empirical fault probability distributions, which are employed to assess the frequency and duration of interruptions in the supply system for different scenarios. Both analytical and probabilistic simulation techniques (Monte Carlo method) are developed to include up-to-date security of supply legislation, introducing a new methodology for calculating the standard set of indices reported annually to energy regulators.

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Les infrastructures Internet et l'installation d'appareils très gourmands en énergie (en raison de l'explosion du nombre d'internautes et de la concurrence entre les services efficaces offerts par Internet) se développent de manière exponentielle. Cela entraîne une augmentation importante de la consommation d'énergie. La gestion de l'énergie dans les systèmes de distribution de contenus à grande échelle joue un rôle déterminant dans la diminution de l'empreinte énergétique globale de l'industrie des TIC (Technologies de l'information et de la communication). Elle permet également de diminuer les coûts énergétiques d'un produit ou d'un service. Les CDN (Content Delivery Networks) sont parmi les systèmes de distribution à grande échelle les plus populaires, dans lesquels les requêtes des clients sont transférées vers des serveurs et traitées par des serveurs proxy ou le serveur d'origine, selon la disponibilité des contenus et la politique de redirection des CDN. Par conséquent, notre objectif principal est de proposer et de développer des mécanismes basés sur la simulation afin de concevoir des politiques de redirection des CDN. Ces politiques prendront la décision dynamique de réduire la consommation d'énergie des CDN. Enfin, nous analyserons son impact sur l'expérience utilisateur. Nous commencerons par une modélisation de l'utilisation des serveurs proxy et un modèle de consommation d'énergie des serveurs proxy basé sur leur utilisation. Nous ciblerons les politiques de redirection des CDN en proposant et en développant des politiques d'équilibre et de déséquilibre des charges (en utilisant la loi de Zipf) pour rediriger les requêtes des clients vers les serveurs. Nous avons pris en compte deux techniques de réduction de la consommation d'énergie : le DVFS (Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling) et la consolidation de serveurs. Nous avons appliqué ces techniques de réduction de la consommation d'énergie au contexte d'un CDN (au niveau d'un serveur proxy), mais aussi aux politiques d'équilibre et de déséquilibre des charges afin d'économiser l'énergie. Afin d'évaluer les politiques et les mécanismes que nous proposons, nous avons mis l'accent sur la manière de rendre l'utilisation des ressources des CDN plus efficace, mais nous nous sommes également intéressés à leur coût en énergie, à leur impact sur l'expérience utilisateur et sur la qualité de la gestion des infrastructures. Dans ce but, nous avons défini comme métriques d'évaluation l'utilisation des serveurs proxy, d'échec des requêtes comme les paramètres les plus importants. Nous avons transformé un simulateur d'événements discrets CDNsim en Green CDNsim, et évalué notre travail selon différents scénarios de CDN en modifiant : les infrastructures proxy des CDN (nombre de serveurs proxy), le trafic (nombre de requêtes clients) et l'intensité du trafic (fréquence des requêtes client) en prenant d'abord en compte les métriques d'évaluation mentionnées précédemment. Nous sommes les premiers à proposer un DVFS et la combinaison d'un DVFS avec la consolidation d'un environnement de simulation de CDN en prenant en compte les politiques d'équilibre et de déséquilibre des charges. Nous avons conclu que les techniques d'économie d'énergie permettent de réduire considérablement la consommation d'énergie mais dégradent l'expérience utilisateur. Nous avons montré que la technique de consolidation des serveurs est plus efficace dans la réduction d'énergie lorsque les serveurs proxy ne sont pas beaucoup chargés. Dans le même temps, il apparaît que l'impact du DVFS sur l'économie d'énergie est plus important lorsque les serveurs proxy sont bien chargés. La combinaison des deux (DVFS et consolidation des serveurs) permet de consommer moins d'énergie mais dégrade davantage l'expérience utilisateur que lorsque ces deux techniques sont utilisées séparément. / Explosive increase in Internet infrastructure and installation of energy hungry devices because of huge increase in Internet users and competition of efficient Internet services causing a great increase in energy consumption. Energy management in large scale distributed systems has an important role to minimize the contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry in global CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) footprint and to decrease the energy cost of a product or service. Content distribution Networks (CDNs) are one of the popular large scale distributed systems, in which client requests are forwarded towards servers and are fulfilled either by surrogate servers or by origin server, depending on contents availability and CDN redirection policy. Our main goal is therefore, to propose and to develop simulation-based principled mechanisms for the design of CDN redirection policies which will do and carry out dynamic decisions to reduce CDN energy consumption and then to analyze its impact on user experience constraints to provide services. We started from modeling surrogate server utilization and derived surrogate server energy consumption model based on its utilization. We targeted CDN redirection policies by proposing and developing load-balance and load-unbalance policies using Zipfian distribution, to redirect client requests to servers. We took into account two energy reduction techniques, Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and server consolidation. We applied these energy reduction techniques in the context of a CDN at surrogate server level and injected them in load-balance and load-unbalance policies to have energy savings. In order to evaluate our proposed policies and mechanisms, we have emphasized, how efficiently the CDN resources are utilized, at what energy cost, its impact on user experience and on quality of infrastructure management. For that purpose, we have considered surrogate server's utilization, energy consumption, energy per request, mean response time, hit ratio and failed requests as evaluation metrics. In order to analyze energy reduction and its impact on user experience, energy consumption, mean response time and failed requests are considered more important parameters. We have transformed a discrete event simulator CDNsim into Green CDNsim and evaluated our proposed work in different scenarios of a CDN by changing: CDN surrogate infrastructure (number of surrogate servers), traffic load (number of client requests) and traffic intensity (client requests frequency) by taking into account previously discussed evaluation metrics. We are the first who proposed DVFS and the combination of DVFS and consolidation in a CDN simulation environment, considering load-balance and loadunbalance policies. We have concluded that energy reduction techniques offer considerable energy savings while user experience is degraded. We have exhibited that server consolidation technique performs better in energy reduction while surrogate servers are lightly loaded. While, DVFS impact is more considerable for energy gains when surrogate servers are well loaded. Impact of DVFS on user experience is lesser than that of server consolidation. Combination of both (DVFS and server consolidation) presents more energy savings at higher cost of user experience degradation in comparison when both are used individually.

Hierdie verhandeling handel oor Nie-verrekenbare water (NVW) van pypnetwerkstelsels, oorsake wat daartoe lei sowel as die verskillende faktore wat daarby betrokke is. Verskillende wyse waarop die NVW van 'n netwerk bepaal kan word, word ondersoek en metodes vir die vermindering van NVW word bespreek. NVW van pypnetwerkstelsels bestaan uit vier komponente. Sekere van hierdie komponente is van groter belang, veral werklike verliese, as ander. Die volgende vier komponente kan onderskei word: <ul> <li>werklike verliese as gevolg van lekkasies wat ekonomies herstelbaar is</li> <li>onvermydelike verliese as gevolg van klein lekkasies wat nie ekonomies herstelbaar is nie</li> <li>oënskynlike verliese as gevolg van stadige perseelmeters aan die leweringskant</li> ongemeterde aftrekkings deur brandkrane en spoelkleppe.</li></ul> Watermeters en hulle akkuraatheid het 'n baie definitiewe invloed op die NVW van 'n netwerk. So byvoorbeeld kan daar 'n aansienlike toename in die NVW voorkom indien meters nie die korrekte volumes wat deur hulle vloei, registreer nie. Pypmateriale en konstruksiemetodes het 'n invloed op NVW en is ondersoek. Indien lae kwaliteit materiaal gebruik word en verkeerde installasie metodes gebruik word lei dit tot meer lekkasies en 'n hoë NVW. Lekkasies in 'n netwerk het 'n invloed op die NVW. As gevolg hiervan is verskeie metodes van lekkasie opsporing ontwikkel. Hierdie verskillende metodes van lekkasie opsporing is in die veld ondersoek om sodoende die bruikbaarheid en geskiktheid van elk te evalueer. Resultate van hierdie ondersoeke dui daarop dat 'n kombinasie van metodes die mees geskik voorkom vir lekkasie opsporing en waterverliesbeheer. Hierdie metodes bestaan hoofsaaklik uit visuele naspeur, soniese sporing sowel as verliesvloeimeters. ENGLISH : The Subject of this thesis is Unaccounted for Water (UAW) of Water distribution Networks. Various causes and factors are responsible for the UAW of networks. These have been studied together with various methods of control. Four components make up the UAW of networks with some being of bigger importance, especially actual losses, than others components are: <ul> <li>actual losses due to leaks which are economically repairable</li> <li>unavoidable losses due to small leaks which are not economically repairable</li> <li>apparent losses due to underregistering stand meters</li> <li>unmetered draw-offs via hydrants and flushing valves.</li></ul> Water meters are used to determine the UAW of a closed network by means of measurements on both sides of the network. Inaccurate slow meters can be the cause of the UAW being much larger than otherwise. Pipe materials and construction methods have been studied in as far as it concerns the UAW. Low quality materials and bad construction methods lead to increases in the UAW. Leaks in a network have an influence on the UAW and therefore various methods of leak detection have been developed. Field investigations concerning these various leak detection methods were carried out and these methods were evaluated. From results of these field investigations it became clear that a combination of methods was most suitable for leak detection and water loss control. These methods include the visual method as well as sounding devices and waste detection meters. / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 1978. / Chemical Engineering / unrestricted

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Nitrification in water distribution networks has become a growing concern for water supplies in the United States. The use of chloramines as a disinfectant in distribution pipe networks has become increasingly popular to reduce the disinfectant byproducts that are formed with free chlorine. In chloraminated systems there is potential for nitrification to occur because it reduces chloramine residuals. As chloramines decompose in the network, ammonia is released. Nitrifiers oxidize ammonia into nitrites, which react with chloramines resulting in its further reduction. As this cycle continues, chloramines will be consumed faster in the network, causing regrowth of heterotrophic bacteria. A study was conducted to compare the Fargo and Moorhead distribution networks for the occurrence of nitrification and their potential to deteriorate water quality. Each distribution network was analyzed independently for variations in operational conditions and water quality parameters that can serve as indications of nitrification in a distribution network. / Moorhead Water Treatment Plant

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / While the transition to IP internetworking in space-based applications has a tremendous upside, there are significant challenges of communications efficiency and compatibility to overcome. This paper describes a very high efficiency, low-risk, incremental architecture for migrating to IP internetworking based on the use of proxies. In addition to impressive gains in communications bandwidth, the architecture provides encapsulation of potentially volatile decisions such as particular vendors and network technologies. The specific benchmarking architecture is a NetAcquire Corporation COTS telemetry system that includes built-in TCP-Tranquility (also known as SCPS-TP) and Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction capabilities as well as a specialized proxy-capable network stack. Depending on network conditions, we will show that the effective bandwidth for satellite transmissions can be increased as much as a factor of one hundred with no external changes to existing internetworking equipment.

Este trabalho apresenta o dimensionamento otimizado de redes pressurizadas de distribuição de água em regime permanente para áreas de topografia relativamente plana. Além dos critérios tradicionais de dimensionamento hidráulico, o resultado ótimo é aquele com menor custo global, ou seja, onde a soma dos custos de implantação e de operação é mínimo. Para a determinação dos resultados, as equações que envolvem a perda de carga nos circuitos e vazões em cada nó foram solucionadas através da programação não linear com emprego de métodos matriciais. As principais variáveis analisadas foram os diferentes materiais das tubulações (PEAD, PVC e Ferro Fundido), tipos de superfície (terra, concreto, paralelepípedo e asfalto), locação da rede (passeio, viário pavimentado e sem pavimentação), tarifas de energia elétrica para concessionárias de água, vida útil usuais para o sistema de bombeamento e taxa de juros ao longo da operação do sistema. Os resultados obtidos através da metodologia proposta demonstraram que as principais variáveis em relação ao custo referencial unitário foram o custo da pressurização inicial, custo da tubulação, além do custo de remoção e recomposição de viário em pavimento asfáltico. / This work presents the optimal design of pressurized networks of water distribution in steady state flow to areas of relatively flat topography. In addition to the traditional hydraulic criteria for design, the optimal outcome is that with lower overall cost, in other words, where the sum of the costs of implementation and operation is minimal. To obtain the results, the equations that involving headloss in the circuits and flows at each node were solved by nonlinear programming with the use of matrix methods. The main variables studied were the different materials of pipes (HDPE, PVC and Cast Iron), surface types (clay, concrete and asphalt paving), network location (walk, paved and unpaved road), electricity tariffs for water utilities, normal life for the pumping system and interest rates along the system operation. The results obtained by the proposed methodology showed that the main variables in relation to the unit cost were the cost of initial pressurization, cost of the pipe, besides the cost of removal and restoration of roads in asphalt pavement.

Este trabalho apresenta o dimensionamento otimizado de redes pressurizadas de distribuição de água em regime permanente para áreas de topografia relativamente plana. Além dos critérios tradicionais de dimensionamento hidráulico, o resultado ótimo é aquele com menor custo global, ou seja, onde a soma dos custos de implantação e de operação é mínimo. Para a determinação dos resultados, as equações que envolvem a perda de carga nos circuitos e vazões em cada nó foram solucionadas através da programação não linear com emprego de métodos matriciais. As principais variáveis analisadas foram os diferentes materiais das tubulações (PEAD, PVC e Ferro Fundido), tipos de superfície (terra, concreto, paralelepípedo e asfalto), locação da rede (passeio, viário pavimentado e sem pavimentação), tarifas de energia elétrica para concessionárias de água, vida útil usuais para o sistema de bombeamento e taxa de juros ao longo da operação do sistema. Os resultados obtidos através da metodologia proposta demonstraram que as principais variáveis em relação ao custo referencial unitário foram o custo da pressurização inicial, custo da tubulação, além do custo de remoção e recomposição de viário em pavimento asfáltico. / This work presents the optimal design of pressurized networks of water distribution in steady state flow to areas of relatively flat topography. In addition to the traditional hydraulic criteria for design, the optimal outcome is that with lower overall cost, in other words, where the sum of the costs of implementation and operation is minimal. To obtain the results, the equations that involving headloss in the circuits and flows at each node were solved by nonlinear programming with the use of matrix methods. The main variables studied were the different materials of pipes (HDPE, PVC and Cast Iron), surface types (clay, concrete and asphalt paving), network location (walk, paved and unpaved road), electricity tariffs for water utilities, normal life for the pumping system and interest rates along the system operation. The results obtained by the proposed methodology showed that the main variables in relation to the unit cost were the cost of initial pressurization, cost of the pipe, besides the cost of removal and restoration of roads in asphalt pavement.