Pardo Picazo, Miguel Ángel, Riquelme, Adrián, Jódar-Abellán, Antonio, Melgarejo, Joaquín
Water and Energy Demand Management in Pressurized Irrigation Networks
Pardo MÁ, Riquelme AJ, Jodar-Abellan A, Melgarejo J. Water and Energy Demand Management in Pressurized Irrigation Networks. Water. 2020; 12(7):1878. doi:10.3390/w12071878
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/107773
DOI: 10.3390/w12071878
ISSN: 2073-4441
Abstract: 
Minimizing energy expenditure is one of the main purposes of the managers of pressurized irrigation systems. From the energy consumption standpoint, they can reduce energy consumption by supplying a constant flow into the system (a scheme different from urban water pressurized networks in which water demands depend on users). Managers can keep energy demands (opening and closing valves) while meeting pressure restrictions. We developed a computer application in MATLAB containing a genetic algorithm to find the best moment to open and to close valves to minimize an objective function which measures the differences between the objective and the real injected flows. We tested this program in the pressurized irrigation network of the San Vicente Campus, University of Alicante (Southeast Spain) and we calculated the water and energy balance (from the later and present irrigation network) and the carbon credits not emitted to the atmosphere.
Keywords:Water irrigation networks, MATLAB, Energy audit, Efficiency, Carbon credits, Rigid scheduled irrigation
MDPI
info:eu-repo/semantics/article