Exploring Optimal Pump Scheduling in Water Distribution Networks with Branch and Bound Methods

Water utilities can achieve significant savings in operating costs by optimising pump scheduling to improve efficiency and shift electricity consumption to low-tariff periods. Due to the complexity of the optimal scheduling problem, heuristic methods that cannot guarantee global optimality are often applied. This paper investigates...

Balancing Waste Water Treatment Plant Load Using Branch and Bound

The problem of smoothing dry weather inflow variations for<br/>a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) that receives sewage from<br/>multiple mixed sewer systems is presented, together with a first rough<br/>solution algorithm. A simplification followed by a naive translation into<br/>a zero-one linear programming problem results in 1152...