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Abstract: To reduce the overflow of the wastewater and high expense caused by redundant arrangement of the stations of pumps
in the urban drainage system, a hybrid logistic optimization model is proposed to choose the locations of pump stations and the
corresponding optimal control algorithm is also developed in this paper. The inflow in the conduit from rainfall is estimated
based on rainfall-runoff model and meanwhile the performance of the pump is described by the nonlinear pump model. After
determining the optimal pump locations by the optimization algorithm, this paper further studies the energy saving optimal
control of the system. When taking both the position and the working situation of the pumps into consideration, the energy
consumption of the system and the frequency of overflow can be brought down effectively.
Key Words: Urban Drainage System, Pump Station Locations, Energy Saving, Hybrid Optimization
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jor dynamic characteristic of the system in reality. In this conduits,qup (k) = [qup1 (k) qup2 (k) . . . qupn (k)]T , D =
model, each conduit can be seen as a delay connection unit Tc ∗ In∗n , qex (k) = [qex1 (k) qex2 (k) . . . qexn (k)]T , n is the
combined with a storage unit [11] as shown in Figure 2. The number of conduits.
storage unit represents water storage capacity, and the delay Rainfall may have an impact on every inflow of each con-
connection unit has the function of flow transmission with duit in urban drainage system. That is to say, qex is the
delay characteristics. resulting inflow caused by precipitation. It is necessary to
build rainfall-runoff model applied for calculating the inflow
qex accurately. We can obtain the equation below.
1
h2 − h1 l 2 h1 + h2 5
=I −f − [ − dp ] 3 (4)
Δt Sn 2
where Δt is time interval, h1 is initial water depth, h2 is final
water depth, I is average rainfall intensity, and f is average
infiltration rate.
By using the runoff model, the rainfall data in the sub-
catchment can be converted into rainfall inflow of each con-
duit in the model of sewer network. Upon the calculated
conduit inflow and constraints, the optimal outflow qu can
Fig. 1: Network Topology of the Urban Drainage System be obtained.
In a current urban drainage system, there exist some un-
reasonable operating procedures such as fixed pump-rev op-
eration, arbitrary running and stopping and so on. Those
problems directly lead to fairly low efficiency of the pump
and extra expenses of energy. Hence, proposing a model for
evaluating the performance of the pump is necessary.
According to [12], pump head characteristic curve can be
modeled by quadratic equation as,
H = aQ2 + bQ + c (5)
where H is pump head,Q is pump outflow,a,b,c are the cor-
responding coefficients to be identified.
The calculation equation among pump efficiency, pump
head and pump flow is described as follows [11],
Fig. 2: Water-level Model of Single Chanel η=
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Where qnout (k) is natural stream in conduit, μ is flow coeffi- The outflow of conduit i where there is a pump should
cient, f is gate area, hu (k) is water level of upstream at time satisfy that,
k, hd (k) is water level of downstream at time k.
Or if there is a pump at conduit i, the outflow can be cal- lb ≤ qu,i (k) ≤ ub (12)
culated by taking three pivotal factors into consideration, in- where lb and ub are the lower bound and upper bound of
cluding the storage condition, working state of the pump and pump flow of centrifugal pump respectively.
energy consumption of the system. To be specific, the pump To avoid wastewater overflow as well as keep storage con-
will use energy when lifting the wastewater. According to dition satisfied in the process, the storage of each conduit at
the nonlinear model of pump characteristics, the pump head next period should comply that,
can be calculated in formula (5).
Energy consumed by the pumps of lifting waste water can 0 ≤ vi (k + 1) ≤ vi,max (13)
be expressed as,
where vi,max is maximum storage of conduit i.
Ei = ρ ∗ g ∗ H(k) ∗ qu (k) ∗ Tc /ηp (8) In addition, assume that the total number of pumps in the
system is μ, and the diagonal elements λi in the diagonal
Based on the above analysis, we can obtain the hybrid model matrix Λ should satisfy that,
of urban drainage system as, i=n
λi = μ (14)
i=1
v(k + 1) = Av(k) + BΛqu (k) + B(1 − Λ)qnout (k)
The optimization variables include both logistic variable
λi (1 ≤ i ≤ n) and continuous variable qu,i (k) where λi =
+ Cqup (k) + Dqex (k) (9) 1.
The optimization algorithm of pump locations in urban
The total energy consumption of pumps in the system can drainage system can be summarized as below,
be expressed as,
i=n Tc
i=n min J(k) = Λ ∗ ρ ∗ g ∗ Hi (k) ∗ qu,i (k) ∗ (15)
E= Λ ∗ ρ ∗ g ∗ Hi (k) ∗ qu,i (k) ∗ Tc /ηp,i (10) X(k) i=1 ηi
i=1
where n is the conduit number in the system, Λ is the diag- s.t. lb ≤ qu,i (k) ≤ ub (16)
onal matrix to be solved with the diagonal element logistic
variable which means whether there is a pump at correspond-
0 ≤ vi (k + 1) ≤ vi,max (17)
ing location.
3 Optimization of Drainage Pumping Systems i=n
λi = μ (18)
i=1
In general, less number of pumps set in the urban drainage
systems, less energy cost and investment of establishing the
system. But less pumps may lead to the capability insuf- v(k + 1) = Av(k) + BΛqu (k) + B(1 − Λ)qnout (k)
ficient to handle the overflow. That is, there is a conflict +Cqup (k) + Dqex (k) (19)
among the number of pumps, the capability of handling the
overflow and the energy cost. So the location and control of
qnout (k) = μf 2g(hu (k) − hd (k)), λi = 0 (20)
the pumps in urban drainage systems should be optimized
at the same time to reduce the number of pumps to save the
whole cost. From this idea, we give the following designs. H(k) = Aqu (k)2 + Bqu (k) + C (21)
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3.2 Energy Saving Optimal Control of Drainage Sys- where v̄ and v are the lower and upper limit of storage con-
tem dition respectively.
By solving the hybrid logistic optimization problem, we To guarantee lower energy consumption and the stability
can obtain the optimal pump locations matrix Λ and the of drainage system, optimization objective of the system is
concrete hybrid drainage system model. After that, energy- to minimize the total energy cost of next two control periods
saving optimization control based on optimized selection of and the penalty term due to the fluctuation of storage con-
pump locations can be applied to reducing system power cost dition ṽ(k). Energy cost is added only if there is a pump
and avoid overflow of wastewater. In the optimization algo- at some conduit where its diagonal element is 1. Thus, the
rithm, λi is diagonal element of matrix Λ. λi = 1 means optimization objective function can be expressed as follows,
there is a pump at conduit i , while λi = 0 means there is no i=k+1 j=m g
pump at conduit i. J(k) = (qu (j, i) ∗ H(j, i) ∗ ρ ∗ )
i=k j=1 η(j, i)
We can achieve the optimal objective by optimizing the
outflow of conduits which have pumps. Therefore, the op-
timizing variables can be chosen as the outflow of relative 2 2
+r1 v(j, i)−ṽ(j, i) +r2 Δv(j, i) (27)
conduits at time k and time k + 1 as well as the expected
storage capacity ṽ(k), that is, From the analysis above, the whole energy saving opti-
U (k) = [qu (k), qu (k + 1), ṽ(k)] (23) mization algorithm can be described as follows,
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4 Case Study Part of the comparison results are shown in Figure 3, 4,
and 5. From the results, we can get the storage condition,
Based on the hybrid logistic model and energy saving
optimal outflow and the real time energy consumption of
optimization algorithm above, the problem is simulated on
each conduit in the sewer network. The corresponding stor-
MATLAB. Firstly, the optimal pump locations of a certain
age condition and outflow in the whole simulation process
drainage system can be solved by toolbox. Then the energy
of conduit 3, 7, 8 is shown below.
saving optimization algorithm of an optimized pump loca-
tions drainage system is simulated.
4.1 Initial Parameters
In the simulation, we use the sewerage network shown in
Figure 1 as the topological structure of urban drainage sys-
tem. The initial values of conduits storage condition, phys-
ical capacity and upper bound of pump outflow are set in
Table 1.
Table 1 Initial Parameters
Upper
Conduit Initial Conduit
Conduit Bound
Capacity Storage Inflow
number of Outflow
(m3 ) (m3 ) (m3 /s)
(m3 /s)
1 150 130 0.1 0.078
2 150 130 0.1 0.014
3 250 230 0.25 0.096
4 150 130 0.1 0.017 Fig. 3: Comparison result of conduit 3
5 150 130 0.1 0.032
6 250 230 0.25 0.102
In the comparison, there are pumps at conduit 3 and 8.
7 450 330 0.25 0.055
8 450 380 0.45 0.233
From the results, we can see that the optimization algo-
9 450 380 0.45 0.158 rithm can make good use of conduit storage and there is no
wastewater overflow happening. Although there is no pump
In addition, control period is set T c = 25s, simulation at conduit 7, there is also no overflow in the simulation.
time length t is about 90 minutes. The rainwater inflow The outflow of conduit 3 is shown below in Figure 6.
is obtained from rainfall runoff model. The upstream and Moreover, the real time energy consumption contrast be-
downstream water levels are shown in Table 2 to calculate tween the above two optimization algorithms is demon-
the conduit outflow caused by water level difference. strated in Figure 7.
Table 2 Water Level of Conduit
Upstream Conduit
Conduit
Water Level Inflow
number
m (m3 /s)
1 3.09 1.74
2 2.94 1.74
3 1.74 1.28
4 3.94 1.67
5 4.44 2.74
6 3.94 1.67
7 1.67 1.28
8 1.28 0.80
9 0.80 0.55
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5 Conclusion
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