DERCETO AQUADAPT™ 5.7 Update July 2009
Version 5.7 now available
DERCETO® AQUADAPT™ 5.7 builds on the award winning Aquadapt 4.5 and 5.0 platform with many of the new features requested by our clients.
Amongst the many new features are:
Aquadapt Dashboard – an Intranet enabled bird’s eye view on the performance and savings being generated by Aquadapt with drill-down to incredible levels of detail on items such as individual pump performance
Diagnostic Advisor - A user friendly guide to help operators direct their attention to the issues that may be impacting on the ability to generate high quality schedules.
Operations Simulator – building on the on-line simulator of previous versions the new Tactical and Strategic simulators provide operators, engineers and planners the tools to carry out detailed “what-if” analysis with latest data and complete safety.
Bulk Water Sales Module – Aquadapt has always allowed for the scheduling of bulk transfer of water to third parties. Now a user can enter a total volume and let Aquadapt schedule the best time and flow rate to transfer this water at lowest cost.
In-Plant water use prediction – Treatment plants always use a certain amount of treated water for operations and backwashing. Aquadapt can now predict when this water is likely to be used and the total volume expected to be used. This improves its scheduling predictions for the production plants.
Real-Time Energy Pricing data acquisition – In addition to interfaces to the US PJM real time market Aquadapt now has interfaces to the Canadian IESO via ITRON software and the Energy Direct market in Georgia. This demonstrates the flexibility of interfacing to any source of pricing data from internal client databases through to SOAP based XML sources on the Internet.
Valve Control from characteristic curve – using valve characteristic curves the Aquadapt solver can use its own calculations of predicted upstream and downstream pressures to set valve position and produce an expected flow. Flow control is therefor achieved without additional instrumentation.
Pumping to zones with below grade storage – Aquadapt can supply pressure to zones while simultaneously controlling the filling rates of below grade storage. It maintains required in zone pressure while filling storage as economically as possible.
Multi-site support - Now even the largest or most complex systems can be handled by Aquadapt, with support for multi-core CPUs for increased solve speed on large problems through to multiple computers working together for widely distributed but loosely coupled systems.
Physical to Logical modelling tools – work with actual pump curves, valve and storage tank details in the new graphical database view, confident that Aquadapt will convert these ‘on-the-fly’ into the real time data used by the solver.
Improved Variable Speed Drive modelling – new techniques for modelling complex variable speed drives extract even better savings through explicit performance targeting
Improved Operator Interface – feedback from our users has lead to subtle changes to the operator view screens to improve readability and streamlined the layout.
Improved demand forecasting - using Loess Filtering which handles even the fastest changing demand patterns with ease. Myriad tuning parameters makes this technique configurable to a wide range of client requirements on a zone-by-zone basis.
Pressure Meters - these instruments in the distribution system are now explicitly handled with new objects in the database. These can be used for pressure control or pump curve recording.
Faster network performance – The Operator Panel now uses batched SQL queries to reduce network traffic and improve speed on high latency networks. Where remote sites are viewing operator screens over slow networks page updates have improved 15 fold in speed.
SCADA interface speedup – using batched OPC reads and writes has reduced network traffic and dramatically speed up SCADA data collection. Some systems have seen data collection update times drop from 20 minutes to under 10 seconds as a result of this change, freeing up bandwidth.
New SCADA interface standard – As well as our standard OPC and ODBC interfaces Aquadapt now supports the new Microsoft ‘Web Services’ XML standard interface to SCADA systems.
SCADA Read is now multi-site and multi-node – Where multiple SCADA systems are installed at treatment plants, distribution operations centres and pump stations, the new Aquadapt SCADA interface sets up multiple parallel data collection paths including provision for redundancy in communications.
Remotely restarting clients – All of Aquadapt’s client applications are thin clients and can run anywhere on a WAN. When new updates are rolled out these clients often need to be restarted to take advantage of the new features. Rather than rely on staff at each site to run this process the clients can be restarted through remote calls from our server, with the brief interruption likely to be unnoticeable by the users. This prevents outdated versions of interfaces like the Operator Panel being present on the network.
Send calculated values to the SCADA system – Some clients want to display values calculated by Aquadapt on the SCADA screens. The new SCADA Write module now allows any value calculated by Aquadapt to be passed to the SCADA system and it will then continuously update these values.
Contact your nearest Derceto office to hear more.
Click on the "more" button below to see screenshots of the new dashboard
The Derceto Dashboard
Demand Summary Screen
See water demand zone by zone for any day, week, month or year. Great for the UK water industry Table 12 reporting requirements. Monitor your average demand and compare with typical demands for each zone so you can see demand growth over time.
Pump Station Summary Screen
For each pump station, see which pumps were scheduled to run, see which pumps actually did run and when. See the expected flow and the actual flow and monitor energy consumption for each tariff period. Track your most efficient and least efficient pump stations in real-time.
Derceto Solver Performance
Track the performance of Derceto Aquadapt. Solution time, number of successful solution in the day and database read and write times provide valuable information. Is the system constrained causing loss of solution? Have solve times gone up? These can be indicators that it is time to upgrade the solver constraint data to reflect changing conditions thereby giving Aquadapt the best possible starting conditions.
Rank Pump Stations by Efficiency, Energy or Flow
The Dashboard analyses the data in the historical and live databases to present information on pump station performance. Use this real data to track and compare pumping efficiency and direct maintenance and refurbishment to areas where the most cost-effective returns can be achieved.
and then drill down into real pump curve data with actual operating data points plotted on both the pump curve and efficiency curve.
