Modelación matemática del Sistema Hidráulico de la Red de Agua Potable de la ciudad de Riobamba.

Abstract

Distribution systems of drinking water are a key element in the well-being and development of a population, being important the technical and meticulous study of them. The goal of this study was to develop a hydraulic model of the water supply network of the Riobamba City, which is distributed in 9 sectors, and supplies the resource around 249,891 inhabitants. The model developed to simulate the behavior of the network was carried out in conjunction withthe collaboration of the municipal water and sewage company of the city of Riobamba (EMAPAR). To determine the Model’s efficiency, the results of it, were compared with those of the municipal company between the years 2014 and 2015. The study in this sense is of vital importance, since it constitutes a functional tool for the dynamic analysis of the supply network. In this way, strategic points of the network will be evaluated, where high pressures in the system are evidenced, which cause leaks in the network reducing its volumetric efficiency and increasing the costs of exploitation and distribution of the resource. The software used for the simulation is EPANET (Rosman, 2002), which is one of the most used tools for the simulation of water supply networks, this allows the user to carry out simulations in steady state and in dynamic state with the to evaluate the hydraulic behavior of the system.