Sewerage Networks Active System Monitoring for Reduced Property Flooding

污水网络主动系统监控可减少财产洪水

• 批准号: 720503
• 金额: $ 23.35万
• 依托单位: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720503
• 关键词: Sewerage; Networks; Active; System; Monitoring

‘Sewerage network failure’ caused by blockages is known as a Flooding Other Causes (FOC)as it is triggered by something other than hydraulic overload of the sewerage system in thenormal state. Property damage and clean-up can be £10k per property; in 2012 a WaterSewerage Company (WSC) which cannot be disclosed due to current negotiations withOFWAT had 17,000 escapes at a cost of £17M. OFWAT have introduced the ServiceIncentive Mechanism (SIM) which through key indictors encourages WSCs to improve theirasset and customer performance. SIM affects the prices WSCs are allowed to chargecustomers (their price limit); poor performers are penalised £10s millions and the bestrewarded with higher price limits.No current viable system exists to alarm when an FOC event occurs, except from thecustomer. This is partly because of the geographical scale of the problem and the also the costto own/operate legacy monitoring systems (£3k procure, £500/year operate). With an agingsewerage infrastructure the direction of travel for WSCs is innovation with many identifyingsewer monitoring as a key way forward. Environmental Monitoring Solutions (EMS) wishesto conduct a ‘Development of Prototype’ project to engineer a remote sensor system capableof operating in a passive mode with little maintenance and no cleaning. The proposed systemwill encompass GPRS communications techniques to transfer alarms to Artificial NeuralNetwork (ANN) based central processing modules and FOC incidence database. This systemwill allow simple threshold data to visibly show representation of the network state,prompting proactive management by the operator and reacting to potential and developingblockages before they impact on their customers. These meters do not exist, need to be lowcost; they cannot be anything other than simple. The business proposition to develop andsupply the proposed technology has been validated through discussion with five WSCs.

由堵塞引起的“污水管网故障”被称为洪水其他原因（FOC），因为它是由正常状态下污水系统水力过载以外的其他原因触发的。每处房产的财产损坏和清理费用可能为 1 万英镑； 2012 年，一家污水处理公司 (WSC) 发生了 17,000 次逃逸事件，成本达 1,700 万英镑，该公司目前因与 OFWAT 的谈判而无法披露。 OFWAT 引入了服务激励机制 (SIM)，通过关键指标鼓励 WSC 改善其资产和客户绩效。 SIM 会影响 WSC 向客户收取的价格（其价格限制）；表现不佳的公司将受到数千万英镑的处罚，而表现最好的公司将受到更高的价格限制的奖励。当前不存在可行的系统来在 FOC 事件发生时发出警报，除了来自客户的系统。部分原因是问题的地理范围以及拥有/运营遗留监控系统的成本（采购成本 3,000 英镑，运营成本 500 英镑/年）。随着污水处理基础设施老化，供水服务中心的发展方向是创新，许多人将污水监控视为前进的关键途径。环境监测解决方案 (EMS) 希望开展“原型开发”项目，设计一种能够以被动模式运行、几乎不需要维护且无需清洁的远程传感器系统。拟议的系统将采用 GPRS 通信技术，将警报传输到基于人工神经网络 (ANN) 的中央处理模块和 FOC 事件数据库。该系统将允许简单的阈值数据直观地显示网络状态的表示，提示运营商进行主动管理，并在潜在的和正在发展的阻塞影响客户之前对其做出反应。这些仪表不存在，需要低成本；它们只能是简单的。开发和提供拟议技术的商业主张已通过与五个 WSC 的讨论得到验证。