Hello welcome to this video where I will be explaining how to evaluate water supply projects using water

gems myself Tana Kulkarni I am a technical consultant for water at Bentley systems this video is
typically for owner operators utilities infrastructure developers who basically outsource hydraulic
modeling designs including DPR that is detailed project reports for water supply projects typically the
individual consultant or consultancy company designs this water water Network for optimal cost and
benefits and then they submit hard copies of DPR along with CAD and GIS drawings and a hydraulic
model and with other details etc the hydraulic model may be designed in water gems water care or even
epinet etc so similar software's can be used for hydraulic modeling and it's designed and then they submit
the dot wtg file or dot InP file in soft copy to the infrastructure owner now this video is going to
demonstrate on how to open these submitted hydraulic models in your water gems or water CAD and then
check if any of the design constraints are violated now typically all the infrastructure I mean water
infrastructure organizations have laid some standards or based on which the water supply network must
be designed now there are a couple of design constraints which are you know the hydraulic model or the
design is subjected to these constraints now these constraints consist of velocity constraint that the
velocity of the water in the pipe must not exceed 1.8 meters per second or a a constraint that you need to
have minimum residual pressure at all junctions across the operations home zone and it should not go
beyond a particular limit of pressure and then you may also have some head loss constraints or head loss
gradient constraints while designing the water supply project now it's this video is also going to
demonstrate on how to color code and annotate the network for various attributes of the elements such
as pressure or velocity or head loss gradient or you know any any property of the element in your network
for quick and better understanding of the design that was submit the design that was submitted by the
consultant now this video will also help you understand how to evaluate various scenarios and
alternatives and check whether the design stands good for those scenarios and alternatives for example a
scenario may be what will happen if you apply a peak factor of 3 for a particular operation zone right it
was the design done with a peak factor or not what will happen if you consider the 30th year criteria what
will happen if you you know if you consider additional additional sub network in your existing water
supply network so on and so forth so let us start so let me open watergems this is how a typical
watergems window will look like and the first thing that I always recommend to all the hydraulic
modelers is to make sure that you are working in the proper units unit system so I just made sure that I am
working in Si and then let me in our case we have submission of the network in dot InP file which is
epinet file right now this submission file will be using watergems to open it and then to review that
particular DMA network now if the consultant from the from the outsource to come I mean the pro 2 to
whom the network design was outsourced uses watercad or watergems you don't need to worry which
version he or she has worked in as long as you have the latest seas of bentley watergems now presently
we have select series 6 now even if the consultant has worked in select cities 4 or 2 or 1 right you can
easily open those models without any conversion in select series 6 now this is what Bentley offers it
offers forward compatibility now let me in our case we have a Punnett file so let us go to file and import
and you can see here you can import a water jumps database you can also import a Punnett right so in our
case we are going to import Epona to find them so now let us go and browse that particular submission so
this is the submitted epinet Network which will be opening now it will take hardly 1 or 2 seconds to
convert that a Punnett file into a water chance file now as you can see this is untitled 1 dot wtg that is it's
a water attempts filed now the and then you can simply click to file and save your network as submitted
DMA okay now make sure that I mean make sure that you are water jumps while is will be saved in wtg
format all right now if you now this is a big Network right in order instead of you know zooming and and
taking a look where the tank is located at you can simply use various tools which are there in wattage ins
for quick understanding of the network so we'll go to edit and we'll go to select by element and now we
are going to identify or understand where the source is so the source in our network in a DMA is a tank so
let me click this tank now if I click this tank it will select can you see the selection so it has identified the
location of the tank in this huge network so I don't need to go on and check where the location of the tank
is I can simply use that and select by element to understand where the tank is ok now there is another tool
which is called as network navigator we just need to go to view and network navigator you can also use
this shortcut control 3 and open network navigator in network navigator can you see this greater than box
which is good here and you select all the tanks or all the pipes or all the junctions you can you know it
helps a model or or or person to identify and select only those elements which are in his or her interest so
let us now click this all tanks so it has identified the total number of tanks where 1 1 element displayed
and if you double-click this tank it will zoom in to that particular tank so you can also use this network
navigator network navigator can also be used for complex or interesting queries for example what is what
is the shortest want between between a junction a to junction B or you can trace upstream to the tank from
any junction in the network or you can trace downstream from a source to the through the farthest
Junction in the network right you can also use this tool in order to understand are there any pipes which
are crossing each other are there any junctions which are orphaned that is which are not connected to any
pipe or you know any link are there any dead-end nodes are there any pipes that are missing nodes
or duplicate labels for pipes so this is an interesting tool which can be helpful for understanding and
evaluating the entire network now we have identified the source now you can just double-click this tank
and check from your data if the modular or the consultant has used the elevations properly can you see the
base elevation the ground elevation the minimum maximum and initial elevations of the tank all right so
once you have confirmed this you can use a tool which is called as flex table for understanding of the
elevations that were used for for the junctions so you can either go to view and flex tables or you'll find an
icon like this on the screen you just need to drop it down and select Junction now once you select
Junction it will give you all the junctions ascending in order lay descending in order and its corresponding
ground elevation you may also note that there are a couple of fields which are yellow in color right now
these fields are typically results field and you cannot edit this field right the white fields on the other hand
can editable and are are typically input fields for that particular element so now you can see in tabular
format what is the junction elevation that were used for the entire network similar to this you can also
review the entire projects design for pipelines using pipe flex table now if you see it will give you pipe
label laid ascending not in ascending order the start node stop node of the pipe the length of the pipe and
then the diameter of the pipe now again diameter material and his and Williams feet are the input right
typical inputs for the water supply network but flow velocity head loss gradient and head loss are the
typical output and hence these are yellow in color now do not worry about the N public a text that you
can see on in these fields because as we have not yet computed the model the software has not yet you
know calculated the results for each and every pipe for these particular fields now once you have revealed
this you simply need to go to analysis and validate the network now we typically validate the network in
order to see whether any of the problem any of the important property of the network is missing for
example if the tank elevations are not you know inserted then it's a big validation error so let us now see if
everything every input is valid or not so let us click validate once we click validate it will show us if there
are any problems that needs to be cutted now there were no problems during validation and hence we are
ok to compute this network so now let us go to analysis and come this network now once we compute this
network it will give us a summary of the calculation now as you can see here it will show us what is the
total load demanded and the flow total flow stored now the total flow supplied is zero because water was
being drained out of the tank and hence the flow and a tank mind you the tank is a storage unit right and
hence the total flow stored is negative 46 liters per second right so demand is equal to supply so whatever
the demand of water was the stored flow from the tank was consumed - in order to meet that particular
demand now once you are done with this you are also likely to be interested in understanding what
peak factor was used for designing this network so for understanding of the peak factor you need to go to
analysis and calculation options you will find base calculation options you just need to double-click it and
under its properties you'll find adjustments tab and under adjustments you will find demand adjustments
now you need to make sure whether the consultant has used any demand adjustment or not so in our case
the consultant has used a demand adjustment now can you see this active once this is active you'll also
find active demand adjustment and in the active moment adjustment you have one item if you click this
ellipsis box over here so here all the demands for the entire network were multiplied by a value of three
that makes us understand that a peak factor of three was applied to entire all the demands now how would
we make sure that a peak factor of three is applied or not for that we can go to a tool which is called as
demand control center and in and control center you will find all these demands now just keep in mind
that these demands are not subjected to the peak factor you have explicitly you know applied the peak
factor of three using demand adjustment so if you click statistics on this demand base you will get a total
of fifteen point three five liters per second now this is your average demand now this average demand
was multiplied by a peak factor of three and hence the demand which was which was considered for
design or for the computation of the network was 46 so 15 multiplied by 3 is approximately 45 and
15 point something will deployed by 3 is 46 I believe you got it now you may also be interested in having
the diameters I mean you you can go to individual pipe and select it and then check its diameter or you
can also go to flex table and pipe table and take a look at the diameters optimal diameters that the
consultant has provided all right but this is not a very efficient way of understand oh when you are you
know trying to have a look at the entire network right so for that you will use this element symbology
option or here and in this what you can do is you can create annotations and color codes for the entire
network for all the elements which are present in the network and you can annotate and color code the
network for example if if we right click this pipe let us color code this type on the basis of velocity
constraint now for example the field which we are going to consider is velocity right so you will select the
field name as velocity and what is your constraint it should be more than zero and it should be less than or
equal to one point eight so one point eight if the velocity is less than one point eight meters per second
then you have no objection I mean the design is suited but if it goes about this range you would like to
have those pipes identified so hence you would keep the color for those pipes as red you can also use
color and size option over here so all the points which are having less than one point eight meters per
second velocity will be color-coded green and the size will be one which is normal but the pipes which
are going beyond this range will be having red color and the size will be three once you apply this it will
apply to all the network and here you can easily take a look at the network and understand if any of the
pipes is going beyond a range of one point eight now this is also possible when you go to flex tables now
once you go to flex table this is the velocity range we just need to right click and click statistics once you
click statistics it will give you the minimum and maximum range of velocity right the maximum range of
velocity is one point zero seven in our case which is less than one point eight meters per second if you are
looking at zero point zero zero you can simply right-click this and go to units and formatting and you can
increase the display precision so it will give you some nonzero value of the velocity if there is a flow in
the pipe okay it will also give you an average velocity for entire network similar to this all the flows are
zero you don't have to worry about it you just need to right click it click units and formatting and you just
select whatever units you are comfortable in the consultant may be comfortable in liters per second but
the standard in you’re the standard unit for flow in your organization may be liters per day for example
right and you just need to increase this display precision and click OK so it will give you all the values of
flow in liters per day so you just need to make sure I mean make yourself comfortable using this unit
okay now once this is done the other criteria that we generally are interested is the head loss criteria so in
India the head loss criteria is defined in the terms of head loss gradient and in CPH eeo that is central
public health and environmental engineering organization has laid a constraint for head loss gradient that
it should not be greater than so it should not be greater than 10 meters per kilometer so I will select the
head loss gradient window here and make sure the units the units at present are meters per meter so you
just need to change it from meters to meter no a meter meters by meter 2 meters by kilometer and our
ranges if it's less than 10 meters per kilometer the color code can be green else the color code can be red
you can also select color and size option over here and then you uncheck this velocity color code and you
check this head loss gradient once you do this it will show you if any of the pipe is having any violation
for head
loss condition okay similar to this you can you may also color coded junctions be on the basis of
on the basis of head loss sorry pressure so the residual pressure in terms of meters of water so I'll change
the units to meters of water I'll change the display precision to two so will calculate the full range the
minimum pressure is 0.2 two meters of water and the maximum is twenty two point three five I can either
you know initialize a complete range between this minimum and maximum and split it in five steps or
you can you can you know use a very basic condition so if it's the value of pressure is less than seven you
would like to have red because the minimum pressure criteria is minimum of seven meters and the
maximum of 22 meters so if it's in the range of seven to 22 the color will be blue and if it's beyond
twenty-two the color will be again red as I told you earlier you can use color and size option over here so
if it's less than seven you would like to have five size for the junctions because in order to understand in
order to spot those junctions accurately and you just need to click apply once you click apply it will
highlight all the junctions like you can see on the drawing right now all the junctions we cut which are
having pressure which is less than seven and more than as or more than twenty two right and then you can
individually click these junctions and take a look at the pressure so in this case the pressure at this
particular Junction is twenty two point one four and in this case it's three point two nine right so it has
unders it has identified all the junctions which are violating the head low and sorry pressure constraint
okay and then you can take a decision whether to accept these drawings all to ask the consultant to
improve redesign the network okay once you are done with this so it has identified all the junctions which
are having the pressure constraint which are violating the pressure constraint then you can go to flex table
and junctions table here you can you know apply a filter and you can say that the pressure if it is more
than sorry if it is more than 20 to show me all I haven't filter all the junctions which are having a pressure
more than 22 meters of water let us click OK and then it will show us only those junctions which are
violating the pressure constraint on the higher side okay similar to this you can say that if the pressure is
less than 7 meters of water show me those junctions so these are the junctions which are violating the
minimum pressure constraint okay once you are done reviewing this you can simply go to filter and reset
the filter so that you look it will give you all the junctions again in your list okay so this is how you can
you know understand the network what interesting things that you can also do is you can annotate this
network now you can annotate this network on the basis of physical properties like diameter then another
physical property like length and physical property like the material that was used property like the length
of 30 so and the results fields like what is the velocity in the network or in that particular pipe and what is
the flow absolute value once you click OK and apply it to the network click OK and then when you go to
any pipe it will show you the summary of the results or I mean labeled on those particular on all the pipes
so if I click this pipe instead of going and removing the data from the property window I can simply have
it annotated on to the pipe itself so this particular pipe is 138 point 4 mm in diameter the length of the
pipe is 277 meter ductile iron pipe and velocity in the pipe is 0.7 something meters per second the flow
in the pipe is ten point nine seven liters per second and similarly it will do it for all the pipes in unit one
similar to this you can color-code and annotate the pipes for pressure now once you're done reviewing this
Network let us now go to flex table for any of the element in the network now these flex ribbons are very
similar to excel but when your subordinate does not have water jumps installed on his or her computer
you can simply copy these excel results and paste it paste it on a on an excel sheet as quickly as that so
you can copy all the results from the water jumps file from the Flex tables and paste it on the excel and
you can share then share this excel with someone who does not have watergems installed on the net on
the computer and now let us take a look at this interesting topic scenarios and alternatives will be now
seeing how and what can be expected out of water jumps file and how can you demand more interesting
designs and scenarios in one single file of water chance in this particular Network we have a pump station
over here which pumps water from this reservoir to multiple elevated storage reservoirs like you can see
over here right so this is one scenario for this particular small town and the model Earth can then create
another scenario in order to understand what is happening on the distribution side of those elevated
reservoirs for example this is this tank now distributes the water in the operation zone right all the pipes
are color-coded on the basis of the zone to which it belongs which they belong right for example all the
yellow lines or the yellow pipes are belonging to Mill another operation zone similarly green pipes are
belonging to another operation zone right and then the modular can you know you can expect them
modular to create individual zone designs and individual for in individual scenarios so this is the Husker
Papo zone in which you may have multiple DMS so you can expect these things in hydraulic model from
the consultant or the designer the to which you have out sourced the design right so I believe that I have
covered all these points in this particular video demonstration tank you all for watching this video on
water supply projects evaluation with water jumps thank you very much have a good day