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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Operations Research

Background:

  • Sewage collection pipe networks are critical infrastructure requiring efficient design.
  • Optimizing pipe diameters is essential for minimizing operational costs and environmental impact.
  • Existing methods may struggle with the complexity of large-scale pipe network design.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a mathematical model for optimizing sewage collection pipe network projects.
  • To minimize the annual cost of pipe network projects.
  • To determine optimal pipe diameters as decision variables.

Main Methods:

  • Established secondary, first-level, and large system mathematical models for the pipe network.
  • Utilized a large system secondary decomposition-dynamic programming aggregation method for solving.
  • Employed minimum annual cost as the objective function with constraints on slope and flow rate.

Main Results:

  • The study successfully established a mathematical model for optimizing sewage collection pipe networks.
  • The proposed optimization method was validated using a case study in Taizhou city.
  • Optimal pipe diameters for each section were obtained, demonstrating the method's efficacy.

Conclusions:

  • The developed optimization method can effectively solve complex large system problems in sewage pipe network design.
  • The approach provides a viable solution for minimizing annual costs in pipe network projects.
  • This research contributes to more efficient and cost-effective wastewater infrastructure management.