Innovative foresight for water utilities asset management using PRISM software

IF 3.8 3区经济学 Q3 ENERGY & FUELS

Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI:10.1016/j.jup.2024.101806

Amir Nafi , François Destandau

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Abstract

Our analysis aims to better understand water losses by developing a specific methodology for estimating water leak flow rates and durations. Additionally, it aims to improve asset management practices for drinking water utilities by forecasting the costs and benefits of investment and operational decisions on the network. Current utility practices are compared to a "do nothing" policy and to the potential effective asset management policies proposed by an artificial neural network (ANN) based software, PRISM. Applied to four utilities in France, our methodology provides valuable insights for enhancing water loss estimates and finding trade-off asset management policies.

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利用 PRISM 软件对水务资产管理进行创新性展望

我们的分析旨在通过制定估算漏水流量和漏水持续时间的具体方法，更好地了解水量损失情况。此外，它还旨在通过预测管网投资和运营决策的成本和收益，改进饮用水公用事业的资产管理实践。将当前的公用事业实践与 "无为 "政策以及基于人工神经网络（ANN）软件 PRISM 提出的潜在有效资产管理政策进行了比较。我们的方法应用于法国的四家公用事业公司，为加强水损失估算和找到权衡资产管理政策提供了宝贵的见解。

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来源期刊

Utilities Policy ENERGY & FUELS-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

CiteScore

6.80

自引率

10.00%

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审稿时长

66 days

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