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EPANET WATER QUALITY MODEL
Citation:
Rossman, L. EPANET WATER QUALITY MODEL. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/A-93/226 (NTIS PB93236552), 1993.
Description:
EPA NET represents a third generation of water quality modeling software developed by the U.S. EPA's Drinking Water Research Division, offering significant advances in the state of the art for network water quality analysis. PANET performs extended period simulation of hydraulic and water quality behavior within water distribution systems. n addition to substance concentration, water age and source tracing can also be simulated. PANET includes a full featured hydraulic simulation model that can handle various types of pumps, valves, and their control rules. he water quality module is equipped to handle constituent reactions within the bulk pipe flow and at the pipe wall. t also features an efficient computational scheme that automatically determines the optimal time steps and pipe segmentation for accurate tracking of material transport over time. PANET was written in the C language and can handle networks as large as computer memory will allow. he program comes supplied with an optional Microsoft Windows graphical user interface written in Visual Basic TM. The interface visually displays the results of an EPANET run using color-coded maps of the distribution system, point-and-click information queries, searchable tables of output results, and time series graphs. PANET is currently being used in the US to study such issues as loss of chlorine residual, source blending and THM formation, how altered tank operation affect water age, and TDS control for an irrigation network.
