Investigating the Effect of PDA And DDA Methods In Pressure Management of Wdns with the Optimal Setting of Prvs (Case Study: Kalibar Water Distribution Network)

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1 Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

2 Faculty of Engineering, Urmia University of Technology, Urmia, Iran

10.22034/ceej.2025.62693.2376

Abstract

In the past years, water shortage problems have become one of the challenging issues for water specialists. Considering that a lot of money and energy is spent to produce potable water, providing practical and economical solutions to reduce leakage is always considered. Many solutions are proposed to reduce leakage and control network pressure such as active and passive control methods, water distribution network reconstruction, replacement of worn pipes, and pressure management. One of the practical and economical solutions to reduce leakage in the network is pressure management by different methods such as optimizing the location and setting of valves, the number and setting of pumps, level of tanks. According to the recent researches, providing new methods that can be used to reduce leakage from the network in a practical way and at the lowest cost is the basic and constant challenge of water supply networks. The current research examines the effect of demand and pressure driven analysis methods in pressure management of water distribution networks with the optimal setting of PRVs by evaluating the hydraulic performance of the network. For this purpose, the Kalibar water distribution network has been considered as a real case study. The methodology has been coded in MATLAB R2017b by linking EPANET2.2 simulator.

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Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Volume 55, Issue 120 - Serial Number 120
Autumn 2025
November 2025
Pages 113-124

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