Operational planning of WEF infrastructure: quantifying the value of information sharing and cooperation in the Eastern Nile basin

Integrating the planning of a multi-reservoir system in nexus with agricultural and electricity infrastructure could alleviate security concerns for these resources in regions where demand is growing while water and land scarcity are exacerbated by climate change and anthropogenic pressures. This study focuses on the benefits of resource...

A Multi-Objective Approach for the Analysis of a Water-Food-Ecosystems Nexus at Basin Scale

Investigating trade-offs between the operating cost and green house gas emissions from water distribution systems

For electricity grids with an increasing share of intermittent renewables, the power generation mix can have significant daily variations. This leads to time-dependent emission intensities and volatile electricity prices in the day-ahead and spot market tariffs that can be better utilised by energy intensive industries such as water supply...

Quadratic head loss approximations for optimisation problems in water supply networks

This paper presents a novel analysis of the accuracy of quadratic approximations for the Hazen–Williams (HW) head loss formula, which enables the control of constraint violations in optimisation problems for water supply networks. The two smooth polynomial approximations considered here minimise the absolute and relative errors, respectively,...