Propuesta de regulación de presiones en una sección de la red de distribución de agua potable (RDAP) del cantón Jipijapa. Circuitos abastecidos desde el tanque Eloy Alfaro.

Abstract

This document contains a proposal for pressure regulation using two methodologies fields (delivered and accounted flows) and Office (determination of indicators, losses, data analysis and recommendations), in a section of the drinking water distribution network ( RDAP) of the Jipijapa canton and whose circuits are supplied from an elevated tank, given that due to site conditions, there is intermittence and low fluctuation in the water supply that considers a length from the tank to the circuit of 1.84 km and length of the circuit 14.66 km of supply network. These methodologies will allow to estimate the percentage of water required to optimize the fluid pressures in the networks, and once regulated, the following were obtained: Ranges from 15 to 40 meters of water column, reaching an average of 28 meters of water column, a value that allows the optimization and regulation for the distribution of water according the demographic demand of the study circuit in Jipijapa, furthermore the developed hydraulic model represents the consumes in an independent way to the pressure and leaks based on of the service pressure of the RDAP, therefore the water balance studied determined an improvement in the supply of drinking water.