On-site training
Análisis y Mejora del Rendimiento de Redes de Agua
Description

The great majority of pressurised water distribution networks have very great water losses. This is due to the fact that the leaks are not visible since the pipelines are buried. Since detecting the leaks, to then repair or renew the parts of the network affected, involves significant investments, the efficiencies stay very low, above all in the systems in which water is highly subsidised.

The disadvantages of leaks are very clear. Apart from the loss of water itself, the management of these networks in drought periods is carried out with the third-world procedure of cutting off the supply, while there are constant problems with the quality of the water distributed (through pathogenic intrusion).

This course gives a general view of the problem, of the circumstances which propitiate an improvement in efficiency and ultimately of the strategies to implement in order to improve this.

Duration
40 hours
Course contents
  • General condition of networks in Spain.
  • Auditing networks.
  • Performance indicators required for practising benchmarking techniques. .
  • Identification of the different types of losses (real and apparent).
  • The method of assessing the real losses from the nocturnal flows as opposed to that of discrimination through consumption patterns.
  • Strategies to be implemented for improving the efficiency of a network. The management of pressure.
  • The problem of a pathogenic intrusion. .
  • Equipment for detection and location of leaks.
  • Technical and economic criteria for carrying out the maintenance, the rehabilitation or the renewal of pipelines.