Review of urban drinking water contamination source identification methods

J Gong, X Guo, X Yan, C Hu - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
When drinking water flows into the water distribution network from a reservoir, it is exposed
to the risk of accidental or deliberate contamination. Serious drinking water pollution events …

Review of modeling methodologies for managing water distribution security

EZ Berglund, JE Pesantez, A Rasekh… - Journal of water …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Water distribution systems are vulnerable to hazards that threaten water delivery, water
quality, and physical and cybernetic infrastructure. Water utilities and managers are …

Location and release time identification of pollution point source in river networks based on the Backward Probability Method

A Ghane, M Mazaheri, JMV Samani - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
The pollution of rivers due to accidental spills is a major threat to environment and human
health. To protect river systems from accidental spills, it is essential to introduce a reliable …

Contamination event diagnosis in drinking water networks: A review

DG Eliades, SG Vrachimis, A Moghaddam… - Annual Reviews in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water distribution systems are susceptible to contamination events, which can occur due to
naturally occurring events, accidents or even malicious attacks. When a contamination event …

Stochastic approach for the analysis of demand induced transients in real water distribution systems

V Marsili, S Meniconi, S Alvisi, B Brunone… - Journal of Water …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
A stochastic approach for modeling and analysing the transients due to the users' water
consumptions in a real water distribution system is presented. The analysis is based on field …

Multimodal optimization problem in contamination source determination of water supply networks

X Yan, J Zhao, C Hu, D Zeng - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2019 - Elsevier
It makes great economic losses and bad social influence for our country about some
accidental drinking water contamination and vicious attacks to water distribution networks. In …

Testing contamination source identification methods for water distribution networks

A Seth, KA Klise, JD Siirola, T Haxton… - Journal of Water …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
In the event of contamination in a water distribution network (WDN), source identification (SI)
methods that analyze sensor data can be used to identify the source location (s). Knowledge …

General backward model to identify the source for contaminants undergoing non-Fickian diffusion in water

Y Zhang, ML Brusseau, RM Neupauer… - … Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Pollutant source identification (PSI) has been conducted for four decades for tracking Fickian
diffusive pollutants, while PSI for non-Fickian diffusion, well-documented in aquifers and …

Development of an algorithm for the estimation of contamination sources in a water distribution network

OS Adedoja, Y Hamam, B Khalaf, ER Sadiku - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The complexity of a water distribution network (WDN) allows human imposition where
accidental or intentional attack is possible. These attacks sometimes result in the …

Quantifying hydraulic and water quality uncertainty to inform sampling of drinking water distribution systems

D Hart, JS Rodriguez, J Burkhardt… - Journal of Water …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Sampling of drinking water distribution systems is performed to ensure good water quality
and protect public health. Sampling also satisfies regulatory requirements and is done to …