Projects
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| Reference Number | EP/E003192/1 | |
| Title | Delivering sustainable water systems by optimising existing infrastructure via improved knowledge, understanding and technology - project NEPTUNE | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Not Energy Related 95%; Energy Efficiency(Industry) 5%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Computer Science and Informatics) 50%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering) 25%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering) 25%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Professor NJD Graham No email address given Civil and Environmental Eng Imperial College London |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 23 March 2007 | |
| End Date | 22 September 2010 | |
| Duration | 42 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £2,345,886 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Civil eng. & built environment | |
| Region | London | |
| Programme | Energy Multidisciplinary Applications | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor NJD Graham , Civil and Environmental Eng, Imperial College London (99.986%) |
| Other Investigator | Professor IW Marshall , Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University (0.001%) Professor A J Saul , Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield (0.001%) Professor RM (Richard ) Ashley , Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield (0.001%) Dr J Boxall , Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield (0.001%) Dr B Ulanicki , School of Engineering & Technology, De Montfort University (0.001%) Dr SL Prescott , School of Engineering & Technology, De Montfort University (0.001%) Dr S Khu , Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Surrey (0.001%) Professor D Butler , Engineering Computer Science and Maths, University of Exeter (0.001%) Dr Z Kapelan , Engineering Computer Science and Maths, University of Exeter (0.001%) Professor D Savic , Wastewater and Reuse, KWR Watercycle Research Institute (0.001%) Dr R. A Fenner , Engineering, University of Cambridge (0.001%) Dr K Soga , Engineering, University of Cambridge (0.001%) Professor I Postlethwaite , School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences, Northumbria University (0.001%) Dr E Prempain , Department of Engineering, University of Leicester (0.001%) |
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| Recognised Researcher | Professor C Maksimovic , Imperial College London (0.000%) Dr C Makropoulos , Engineering Computer Science and Maths, University of Exeter (0.000%) |
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| Objectives | ||
| Abstract | Water service providers (WSPs) have obligations to supply drinking water to all consumers that meets increasingly stringent water quality regulations and minimum flow and pressure criteria. At the same time, WSPs are required to be ever more efficient to demonstrate value, moves to sustainable operation and also to be more profitable (even where the supplies are publicly provided). Worldwide, not only in the UK, suppliers of water increasingly have to meet a widening range of performance criteria that are expected to improve year-on-year. Other pressures include the growing costs and availability of energy needed to deliver water, especially through pumping, the increasing uncertainty caused by climate change and the drive to minimise water losses from supply networks. Traditionally the supply of water via networks, to the tap, has been provided by large scale engineering and low-risk, low-technology systems. These rely heavily on energy use for pumping etc. and often operate inefficiently, with more pumping than is needed and excessive pressures in networks, leading to higher than necessary levels of leakage. NEPTUNE intends, by advancing knowledge and understanding and introducing new IT and technological systems, to provide the means whereby water service providers in the UK (and elsewhere, where the systems are similar), can better integrate the operation of their supply systems, to more efficiently manage security at the tap, minimise leakage and the redundant andunnecessary transfer of water or storage, hence saving resources, especially costs and energy | |
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| Added to Database | 01/01/07 | |
