Advances in Water Treatment and Enviromental Management

OPTIMISING PUMPING PLANT OPERATION 115FIG. 15 RESERVOIR LEVEL PROFILES [STUDY 2]6 CONCLUSIONSAlthough primarily intended to demonstrate BHRGroup’s innovative approach to pumpscheduling, PUMPLAN has already proved itself as a useful tool in commercial applications.The KBS approach allows the possibility of extremely advanced decision support software tobe considered that will be capable of advising on a much wider range of unplanned situationsthan had previously been thought feasible.The philosophy that it is more important to find an operationally good schedule that has beenbased on rigorous network analysis than to find a mathematical optimum, based on a lessaccurate network model, helps to overcome some of the drawbacks inherent in the softwarepresently available.REFERENCES1] MJ.Likeman, T.J.M.Moore “A Knowledge Based Approach to Pump Scheduling” BHRGroup 1990.2] TJ.M.Moore, P.N.Smith “Methods of Assessing and Reducing the Cost of Water Supply Pumping”BHRGroup Report N° RR3207 Jan 1990.