Pipeline Systems

This conference provides a forum for exchange of technical and operational information across a wide range of pipeline activities. Various supply and distribution industries, and their service organisations, have traditionally approached pipeline systems from many different perspec­ tives. The organ...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Evans, E.P. (Editor), Coulbeck, B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1992, 1992
Edition:1st ed. 1992
Series:Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Session A: Economic Design
  • A review of pipe network optimization techniques
  • A generalized reduced gradient approach to expansion of water distribution networks
  • Optimal design of water distribution networks with multiple loadings
  • Design management of pipeline systems
  • Economic pipe sizing — complex networks
  • Cost reduction in irrigation networks by an efficient use of pressure reducing valves
  • Water supply systems optimization for developing countries
  • Time-step control in TMA for steady flows in large pipelines
  • A system for the engineering design of transmission and distribution pipe networks
  • Session B: Safe Design
  • Measurements and computations of transients in pumped sewer plastic mains
  • Surge protection on the Trimpley supply to Birmingham
  • Failure of a rural water system — a case study
  • Fluid-structure interaction in non-rigid pipeline systems — large scale validation tests
  • Analysis of penstock fracture by water hammer
  • Experiences with surge protection devices
  • Pipeline systems for liquid sulfur
  • Characteristics of lignite ashes transport from steam power plants through pipelines
  • Session C: Operation
  • Network simplification by equivalent modelling for optimal operations
  • Knowledge based systems in operational scheduling of water distribution networks
  • Diagnosis of hydraulic performance of water supply systems
  • On-line control of a city water supply and distribution system
  • Session D: Monitoring and Inspection
  • Leak detection through hydraulic transient analysis
  • State-of-the-art pipeline leak detection
  • Flow measurement in large complex ductwork
  • Structural condition assessment of water trunk mains
  • Methods to determine parameters characterizing technical state of pipelines with pronounced deposition