Determination of leakage and identification of bursts in a pipe network
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Jul 29, 2004
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Jan 12, 2004
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Mar 1, 2001
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A method of dividing the total leakage losses of a pipe network into intrinsic background leakage and burst leakage, the method comprising: defining a first infrastructure condition factor (ICF) which is a numerical representation of the condition of a network in a threshold good condition in which intrinsic background leakage can assumed to be a negligible proportion of the total network leakage losses; defining a second ICF which is a numerical representation of the condition of a network in a threshold poor condition in which intrinsic background leakage dominates total leakage losses; deriving a network ICF for the network under consideration which expresses the condition of the network as a numerical fraction of the difference between the first and second ICFs; determining total leakage losses from the network by performing a network analysis on the network; and multiplying the total leakage losses by the network ICF to divide the total leakage losses into intrinsic background and total network burst leakage.
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