Modeling, Control and Optimization for Smart Water Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2024 | Viewed by 906
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water is a fundamental resource for human life, and even more so in the current context of severe climate change. A growing attention towards the environmental impact of water use is pushing water utilities to optimise its management.
With the rise of the Water 4.0 approach, i.e., the application of the wider Industry 4.0 approach to the water industry, water systems are made smart, thanks to the spread of advanced sensors and actuators throughout the whole plant, as well as their integration in the Industrial Internet of Things network. This unlocks access to a previously inaccessible amount of data, as well as to unprecedented communication capabilities, thus opening up a new range of possibilities for research and development.
This Special Issue, entitled “Modeling, Control and Optimization for Smart Water Systems”, aims at collecting cutting-edge contributions proposing ways to effectively and efficiently exploit the advantages offered by smart water systems, with the final goal of making water management more sustainable.
Due to the strongly cross-disciplinary character of the Water 4.0 approach, this Special Issues is addressed to wide range research communities. A list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to:
- Optimal design of Smart Water Systems;
- Hydraulic and data driven modeling of Smart Water Systems;
- Development and use of Smart Water Systems digital twins;
- Analysis and modeling of water demand;
- Real time control;
- Pump scheduling;
- Energy recovery;
- Monitoring and control of water quality;
- Leakage detection;
- Fault detection, isolation and recovery;
- Decision support systems.
Both methodological and case-study contributions are welcome.
Dr. Giacomo Galuppini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water systems
- data analysis
- machine learning
- modeling
- control
- optimization
- decision support systems
- fault detection
- leakage detection
- water quality
- energy recovery
