This toolkit is currently under construction.
The ASCE Task Committee on Research Databases for Water Distribution Systems was formed in 2013 for the purpose of developing a database for use by the water distribution system community in developing and testing new algorithms for network design, analysis, and operations. This effort has led to the identification and collection of data files and supporting narratives for over 40 different distribution systems. Members of the task committee volunteered to collect and submit data on different water distribution networks, including both those well known in the literature (e.g. New York Tunnel System) and other systems known only to the volunteer. Data to be submitted included an EPANET compatible data file and a narrative summary of the history and characteristics of the system.
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Water Distribution System 27: Hanoi System
The Hanoi system was first presented by Fujiwara and Khang (1990) and is based on the planned trunk network of Hanoi, Vietnam. There are 34 pipes to be sized with a total length of 38.61 km. Possible new pipe sizes range between 12 and 40 inches and the total system demand is 126.5 MGD.
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Water Distribution System 31: Any-town System
The system description is available from the article, Battle of the network models: Epilogue, published in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
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Water Distribution System 33: Battle of the Calibration Networks System
The system description is available from the article, Battle of the water calibration networks, published in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
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Water Distribution System 38: Modified New York Tunnels System
The New York Tunnels system of the previous case modified to include chlorine concentrations. The minimum required chlorine concentration was assumed to be 0.3 mg/L and the chlorine dosing just downstream of the reservoir could be set to lie between 0.5 and 2.5 mg/L. The average daily demand was 1305 million gallons as in the original New York Tunnels problem (above).
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Water Distribution System 39: Jilin Network
The Jilin network is a hypothetical network that was first introduced by Bi and Dandy (2014). It is an optimization problem involving the selection of pipe sizes and chlorine dosing. The demand pattern involves a 24 hour extended period simulation. The available pipe sizes and costs were taken from Kadu et al (2008). The average annual demand is 6.66 MGD.
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Water Distribution System 40: Rural Network
The Rural network was adapted from a real irrigation network and was first presented by Marchi et al (2014). The average annual demand is 2.21 MGD.
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Water Distribution System 42: Fosspoly1 Network
The Fosspoly1 network is a real network in Italy that was first presented by Bragalli et al (2011). The average annual demand is 0.77 MGD.