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Software Solution for Determining the Optimum Volume of the Water Tank Based on the Distribution of Maximum Daily Consumption

Modeling pumping and consumption behavior in water supply requires the analysis of numerous input and computational data, whose functional dependence is usually not easy to determine. This paper analyzes these dependencies and provides a software solution (program code) that, based on the known maximum daily consumption and its pattern, determines the minimum required operating volume of the water tank with the associated regime of pumping water from the source into the water tank (start and duration of continuous pumping). By simplifying existing "manual" calculations created program adapts them to the needs of scientists, but also engineers involved in water supply system design and operational activities related to changes in the operation of pumping stations and water tank, to minimize capital costs (construction of a water tank) and operating costs (pumping). Therefore, the created program assumes for each hour of the day the start of pumping water into the water tank with different durations (1-24 hours), which gives a total of 576 different options and indicates the optimal solution (or solutions in the case of finding several equivalent options) the one for which the minimum required volume is obtained. The functionality of the created program code is demonstrated using two hypothetical examples. The program was created using the JavaScript programming language. It accepts as input parameters the maximum daily consumption and the percentage values for each of the time intervals (hours) of consumption. The paper also includes instructions that provide steps for starting a JavaScript program on the Windows operating system.

Water Tank ; Optimal Volume ; Maximum Daily Consumption ; Consumption Pattern ; Program Code

This work has been fully supported by the University North program for scientific and artistic research support in 2021 under the grant Soldo_Nakić_Đurin "Development of a program/application for optimizing the calculation of the minimum required volume of water tank".