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An assessment of the effect of air scouring and swabbing pig cleaning technique on water distribution pipes (공기주입과 스와빙 피그를 이용한 상수관로 세척 효과 평가)

  • Bae, Cheolho;Lee, Doojin;Choi, Doo-Yong;Jun, Hongjin;Park, Sehyun;Choi, Taeho
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.459-468
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    • 2015
  • Deposits discharged through the cleaning mainly were cement mortar, bitumen paintings and rust pieces, and fragments of perforation, stones and gravels. Deposits were more removed through swabbing pig cleaning rather than air scouring cleaning on the whole. However, air scouring cleaning were not influenced by the constraint conditions such as a change in the diameter or the presence of the valve in water mains compare to swabbing pig cleaning. So, it was thought that air scouring cleaning might be more favorable to water distribution network cleaning in the future. After the cleaning, water quality including residual chlorine and turbidity also was improved because of the removal of a significant amount of the deposits. Therefore, if the cleaning is continuously and regularly implemented in water mains, it is expected that it will help to recover the reliability and to preserve the health of water quality.

Pressure sensor placement method for real-time operation efficiency of water transmission mains (도·송수관로의 실시간 운영효율화를 위한 수압계 설치위치 선정 방안)

  • Kim, Seong Han;Choi, Doo Yong;Kim, Kyoung Pil;Lee, Sang Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.491-500
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    • 2016
  • Pressure monitoring is expected to be expanded in a water distribution system according to accelerated development of smart water network management technologies caused by appearances of affordable digital infrastructures like computing, storage and bandwidth. However, the placement of pressure sensors has been determined by engineer's technical decisions since there is no well-defined criteria for deciding a suitable location of pressure sensor. This study presents a placement method of pressure sensors based on the consideration of allowable error in calibrating water network analysis modeling. The proposed method is to find a minimum set of pressure sensors for achieving a reliable management of water transmissions main and increasing the efficiency of their real-time operation. In the case study in Y area's transmission main, the proposed method shows equally distributed pressure sensors in terms of hydraulics. It is expected that the proposed method can be used to manage transmission mains stably and construct a robust real-time network analysis system as a minimal criteria.

A Statistical Methodology for Evaluating the Residual Life of Water Mains (상수관로의 잔존수명 평가를 위한 통계적 방법론)

  • Park, Suwan;Choi, Chang Log;Kim, Jeong Hyun;Bae, Cheol Ho
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.305-313
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    • 2009
  • This paper provides a method for evaluating a residual life of water mains using a proportional hazard model(PHM). The survival time of individual pipe is defined as the elapsed time since installation until a break rate of individual pipe exceeds the Threshold Break Rate. A break rate of an individual pipe is estimated by using the General Pipe Break Model(GPBM). In order to use the GPBM effectively, improvement of the GPBM is presented in this paper by utilizing additional break data that is the cumulative number of pipe break of 0 for the time of installation and adjusting a value of weighting factor(WF). The residual lives and hazard ratios of the case study pipes of which the cumulative number of pipe breaks is more than one is estimated by using the estimated survival function. It is found that the average residual lives of the steel and cast iron pipes are about 25.1 and 21 years, respectively. The hazard rate of the cast iron pipes is found to be higher than the steel pipes until 20 years since installation. However, the hazard rate of the cast iron pipes become lower than the hazard rates of the steel pipes after 20 years since installation.

A Survey of Sanitation of the Water Supply System in Schools (학교 급수위생에 관한 연구)

  • 권은미
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.125-129
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    • 1992
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the condition of school water supply systems and to provide a way to supply safe and sanitary water in schools. In 1991 present, 56.9% of schools in the whole nation are provided with water supply system. And in urban schools, the percentage of small water supply system was larger than that in city. In the survey on water quality of supply water in Seoul city, the items violating the water quality standard were total bacteria, Zinc and Manganse. For supply the safe drinking water changing the old water mains and executing periodical water quality surveys are needed in addition regulations on school supply water and sanitation are also necessary to the drinking water management in schools.

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Feasibility Study of Multi-regional Transmission Main Stabilization for Sustainable Water Supply (수돗물 공급 안정화를 위한 광역상수도 관로 안정화 타당성 연구)

  • Lee, Jae Bum;Yi, Choong Sung;Jung, Kwan Sue
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.395-404
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    • 2013
  • The risk of pipe-bursting in multi-regional transmission mains consisting of 89 % of singled pipeline is so high that pipeline stabilization project is required such as renewal and replacement, pipe paralleling, emergency ties. Pipeline stabilization projects could be postponed at the step of initial decision-making because effect of this project is intangible benefit like activation of economic, improvement of welfare related to water. This study is to suggest quantified economical feasibility model for intangible benefit presumption to solve above problem. Cost reduction of emergency water supply, leakage, burst restore and energy efficiency improvement was altered and applied. As a result of economic analysis taking into account estimated benefit and cost under discount rate 5.5 %, service life 40 years, sufficient economic feasibility analyzed with B/C 2.45, NPV 317,700 million won, IRR 9.09 %.

Water-jet Cleaning Motion of the In-Pipe Robot with Screw Drive Inside the Water Pipes

  • Kang, Hoon;Oh, Jin-Seok
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.36 no.7
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    • pp.894-901
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    • 2012
  • For more efficient use of the high pressure water-jet in rehabilitation of the water pipes, we have studied the water-jet cleaning motion of the in-pipe robot with screw drive. The mathematical models of the water-jet in the straight and the curved pipe (90 degrees elbow), representative features of the water mains, were designed to understand the water-jet motion and simulations have been performed. Furthermore the experiments has been conducted to validate the simulations by using the prototype in-pipe robot in the 3-D pipeline. The simulation results show that the water-jet motion in the straight pipe has a constant water-jet interval, whereas the motion in the curved pipe is changed by its position. By the comparison of the simulation and the experimental results, we have demonstrated that the simulations successfully estimate the water-jet motion inside the water pipes. Therefore in-pipe robot operators can predict a water-jet motion for a target water pipe through the simulation and flexibly make a proper water-jet motion by changing the robot configurations before a cleaning work.

Residual Life Assessment on Cast Iron Pipes of Water Distribution System (상수도관로중 주철관종의 잔존수명 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Dong;Bae, Chul-Ho;Hong, Seong-Ho;Hwang, Jae-Woon;Kwak, Phill-Jae
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.206-214
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    • 2004
  • Residual wall thicknesses, corrosion rates, and residual life of thirty four samples of cast iron pipes(CIPs) and ductile cast iron pipes(DCIPs) collected from water mains of B city were studied to estimate their remaining service life or optimum time of rehabilitation. The internal maximum corrosion depths of samples measured using a dial gauge after shot blasting were twice higher than the external in most cases. Therefore corrosion of water pipes was much more affected by internal water quality than soil. Residual wall thicknesses of DCIPs were higher than those of CIPs. That reason was thought to be that DCIPs have been protected from internal corrosion by lining cement mortar. Residual life calculated by maximum corrosion rate was ranged up to 44 years with 12.40 years average. Since most CIPs were much deteriorated, rehabilitation plan should be established soon in B city. Residual life of DCIP was 33.52 years average. When cement mortar lining is used up by neutralization of DCIPs. DCIP also should be rehabilitated.