Verificación de la red de distribución de agua potable con watergems para la parroquia Inés Arango provincia de Orellana

Abstract

In this work, the WaterGEMS software and its algorithm were used to optimally design the potable water distribution network of 5 communities of the Inés Arango parish, located in the province of Orellana. It is explained how the Darwin Designer tool of the software, through genetic algorithms, searches for the optimal diameters to minimize the cost of the pipes. The "Code of Practice for the Design of Drinking Water Supply, Excreta Disposal and Liquid Waste Systems in Rural Areas" was used as a reference. The work consists of three parts: in the first part, the theoretical aspects governing both the water networks and the program and the algorithms it uses were defined, this being a genetic algorithm. In the second part, the use of the WaterGEMS program and its optimization tool Darwin Designer was carried out using internal diameters of commercial pipes and the price of the pipes. As a result, a configuration of pipes was obtained that fulfilled most of the restrictions with the exception of 3 of them. Pipes T-1 (0.07 m/s), T-8 (0.14 m/s) and T-6 (0.29 m/s), as for the nodes, the result was more favorable having only one node that exceeds the maximum pressure being node J-5 with a pressure of 52.02 m.c.a. and with respect to the cost of the pipes, a saving of $130.33 was obtained with respect to the first configuration.