Management of liquid conduit systems
AssigneeIP2Ipo Innovations Limited
InventorsIvan Stoianov, Edo Abraham, Filippo Pecci
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Abstract
A method for controlling conditions within a liquid conduit system. The method comprising: defining a zone within the liquid conduit system, wherein pressure within the zone is influenced by one or more actuator valves; controlling the one or more actuator valves in dependence on a Pareto efficient solution to the minimisation of functions of the average pressure within the zone (AZP) and the pressure variability within the zone (PVZ).
Claims17
A method for controlling pressure conditions within a liquid conduit system comprising
- defining a zone within the liquid conduit system, wherein pressure within the zone is influenced by one or more actuator valves;
- defining a first function to be minimised, the first function expressing the average pressure within the zone (AZP);
- defining a second function to be minimised, the second function expressing the pressure variability within the zone (PVZ);
- minimising the first and second functions;
- determining a Pareto efficient solution to a problem of optimal minimisation of both the first and second functions;
- and
- controlling the one or more actuator valves in dependence on the Pareto efficient solution.
An apparatus for controlling a liquid conduit system comprising a zone containing one or more actuator valves, the apparatus comprising one or more processors configured to
- minimise a first function and a second function, wherein the first function expresses an average pressure within the zone (AZP) and the second function expresses a pressure variability within the zone (PVZ);
- calculate a Pareto efficient solution to a problem of optimal minimisation of both the first and second functions;
- and
- control the one or more actuator valves in dependence on the Pareto efficient solution.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.