Water Microgrids: The Future of Water Infrastructure Resilience☆
Water Microgrids: The Future of Water Infrastructure Resilience☆
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水微电网：水基础设施复原力的未来☆
DOI：
10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.403
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发表时间：
2015
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通讯作者：
Wm. Randolf Webb
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作者：
Gregory Falco;Wm. Randolf Webb
微电网最近开始流行，作为一种潜在的解决方案，以解决影响我们城市和社区的极端天气事件造成的越来越多的停电问题。这些事件--通常是由全球气温上升和气候变化引发的--所产生的影响超出了对城市电力基础设施的破坏。水基础设施同样容易受到极端天气事件的影响，对清洁水分配、废水处理和雨水管理造成重大影响。鉴于这种相似性，以及其他将要概述的价值驱动因素，本文提出利用电力微电网背后的概念，为微电网应用开发一个统一的框架，以促进面对气候变化的水资源恢复能力。考虑到两者都是发电，储存，并分发一种被确定为基本人权的基本产品。与电网类似，水利基础设施老化，重建成本高昂。对于这两个行业来说，微电网是一种潜在的解决方案，可以解决老化的基础设施问题，同时也可能更具成本效益。此外，通过利用传统的基础设施组件，同时在系统内开发新系统，微电网提供了冗余，加强了脆弱性，并确保了资源供应链的安全。本文将研究电力和水利基础设施的并行组件，为未来的弹性水微电网提供愿景。
Microgrids have recently come into vogue as a potential solution to address the increasing number of power outages caused by extreme weather events that impact our cities and communities. Such events – often precipitated by increasing global temperatures and climate change – have repercussions that expand beyond damages to a city's electric infrastructure. Water infrastructure is similarly vulnerable to extreme weather events, resulting in significant impacts to clean water distribution, wastewater treatment, and stormwater management. Given this similarity, and other value drivers to be outlined, this paper proposes leveraging concepts behind electricity microgrids to develop a unified framework for microgrid application to promote water resilience in the face of our changing climate.Many parallels can be drawn between the electric grid and water infrastructure considering both are utilities that generate, store, and distribute an essential product that has been identified as a basic human right. Also similar to the electric grid, water infrastructure is aged and costly to redevelop. For both industries, microgrids are a potential solution that addresses aged infrastructure concerns while also being potentially more cost effective. In addition, by leveraging legacy infrastructural components while developing a new system within the system, microgrids provide redundancy, fortify vulnerabilities and secure the resource supply chain. This paper will investigate parallel components of electric and water infrastructure to provide a vision for future resilient water microgrids.