| Author(s) | Muhammad A. Al-Zahrani and Juned Laiq Syed |
| Affiliation | Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), P.O. Box 686, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia |
| Title | Evaluation of Municipal Water Distribution System |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Engineering Sciences. Volume 18, No 1. (2006/1426) |
| Abstract | Reliability analysis of water distribution systems is a complex task, as it requires both definition and calculation of reliability measures. In this paper, a methodology for evaluating water distribution system reliability is developed and demonstrated on a real water distribution network. The methodology comprises of two steps: (1) nodal pressures are calculated using hydraulic simulation program (EPANET), and (2) the minimum cut-set method is applied to calculate nodal and system reliabilities of Al-Khobar water distribution network. The results show that the hydraulic reliability of the central part of Al-Khobar water distribution system is 69.73%. |
