ENERGIDRICA

The ENERGIDRICA Project will develop a decision support system for the energy efficiency of water supply-distribution networks, generating process innovations according to the principles of energy saving, energy reduction, and integration with sustainable energy sources in three complementary decision-making areas.

1) Supply schemes of urban centers from multiple sources. ENERGIDRICA will produce a structured and replicable methodology to energetically rationalize the resource rates from each source, respecting the needs, the constraints of availability of the resource and the capacity of the hydraulic carriers.

2) Management of pumping in adduction and distribution networks. ENERGIDRICA will develop methodologies for the analysis of energy inefficiencies and to support the management of plants that integrate advanced hydraulic analysis tools, oriented to management, in which physically based modeling of water losses in the network is possible as indicators of energy and management efficiency. .

3) ENERGIDRICA will develop tools for integration with sustainable energy sources in a logic of self-consumption to power pumping plants. Different functions will be aimed at supporting the construction from scratch of sustainable energy recovery plants or at favoring their use in the operational optimization of pumping.