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Prolagos Designs Water Distribution System Delivering Energy Savings and Revenue Gains

Prolagos Designs Water Distribution System Delivering Energy Savings and Revenue Gains
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CASE STUDY Project Summary Organization: Prolagos/Aegea Group Solution: Water Network Analysis Location: Região dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Project Objective: • Expand the water supply network for Região dos Lagos over short-, medium-, and long-term horizons • Calibrate the hydraulic network model • Optioneer the best scenarios for the water distribution system • Reduce energy consumption and non-revenue water • Accommodate increased water demand during high tourist season Products used: WaterGEMS Fast Facts • WaterGEMS helped Prolagos model more than 50 hydraulic scenarios for the new water distribution system. • The interoperability of WaterGEMS allowed Prolagos to integrate a variety of data. • WaterGEMS provided an improved water supply from 91 to 98 percent of residents. • The new water distribution system helped to manage seasonal population fluctuations. ROI • Prolagos implemented a water network design that reduced energy consumption by 59 percent, delivered revenue gains of 30 percent, and generated an annual cost savings of BRL 17 million. • Energy savings and revenue gains resulting from the project delivered a total return on investment of 323 percent. Prolagos Designs Water Distribution System Delivering Energy Savings and Revenue Gains Hydraulic Modeling in WaterGEMS Is the Solution Provide Potable Water to Nearly 2 Million People Prolagos, a subsidiary of Aegea Group, is responsible for providing water and sewerage services to five municipalities in Região dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro. Prolagos manages a total water network encompassing 2,000 kilometers of distribution pipelines and accommodates for variable seasonal fluctuations ranging from 400,000 to almost 2 million inhabitants at the peak of the tourist season. The region also lacks fresh water resources as all the surrounding lakes contain hypersaline water, which is unfit for human consumption. Water is distributed from a spring 70 kilometers away, and four pump stations were required to provide water to the inhabitants, but the current system had not been performing optimally. Prolagos undertook a major program called the Water Master Plan 2041 to expand the water supply system with short-term and long-term goals for a more sustainable future. To implement this project, Prolagos used Bentley’s WaterGEMS to create, compare, and optioneer more than 50 hydraulic modeling scenarios, reduce energy consumption and non-revenue water, calibrate the network model, and enable collaborative decision making for the new water distribution system. Meeting Numerous Challenges The existing water distribution network in the Região dos Lagos region consumed BRL 26 million in energy annually and operated at a 45 percent water-loss rate. The system supplied 91 percent of the resident population and needed to meet demands five times greater during tourist season, with supply sources more than 50 kilometers away. “Região dos Lagos is a tropical paradise without freshwater resources,” explained Prolagos Senior Project Manager Wagner Carvalho. “It is a huge challenge to collect water in another province, so we need to invest a lot in infrastructure. At the same time we have high energy costs to keep the system working.” In addition to the lack of resources, fluctuating demands throughout the seasons, and financial implications of the project, Prolagos also faced integrating enormous amounts of data from different systems, devices, sensors, and instruments within the water network. In order to be more efficient and to provide a decision support tool for the different what-if scenarios, the project team needed to utilize an interoperable platform to manage the multitude of document formats and the huge volume of data. Relying on Calibrated Hydraulic Modeling and Interoperability Using WaterGEMS, Prolagos implemented a systematic approach to combining asset, customer, and operational information from various sources in the water network into a collaborative, calibrated hydraulic modeling environment. To make coordinated decisions about the designs for the supply and distribution system, the Prolagos team relied on WaterGEMS to create precise, hydraulic modeling to reduce energy consumption related to pumping costs. Integrating the calibrated hydraulic models with a geographic information system (GIS) and a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system made it possible to improve the operational efficiency of the intake system by using real-time data and historical data, as well as the relevant geo-coordination. The project team used the hydraulic network models to simulate the behavior of existing and planned systems under a wide range of conditions. WaterGEMS provided a visual, collaborative solution utilized by all stakeholders, and enabled the team to evaluate numerous, what-if scenarios for better decision making for optimal network performance. “WaterGEMS is reliable and beneficial because it allows us to simulate and choose the best scenario. We were able to integrate our system and create a virtual model with unrivalled visualization utilized by all stakeholders to engage and approve this project in record time,” said Carvalho. Furthermore, the team could precisely simulate the effects of the expansion alternatives to meet the future demands of the Water Master Plan 2041 fostering regional development an

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Reaching Cost-effective Design Decision Simulating new intake scenarios in WaterGEMS helped the team to determine how to reduce high-pressure loss, automate terrain extraction and node allocation, and optioneer the best pumping strategy with complex pump combinations for optimal, cost-efficient operation. Modeling in WaterGEMS enabled Prolagos to identify the points in the hydraulic system most vulnerable to transients, thereby minimizing operational risk. is to be able to respond quickly to the increase of water demand in a more efficient way and with a sustainable approach. The use of...

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