Browsing by Author "Boxall, J. B."

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    Energy and Utilities Infrastructure: Can All be in One?
    (2011-09) Camci, Fatih; Ulanicki, Bogumil; Boxall, J. B.; Chitchyan, R.; Varga, Liz
    In today‘s developed society it is fully expected that every household is provided with general utility products such as heating, lighting, water supply, communication, and waste removal. Provision of these utility products requires large and complex physical, economic and social structures that interact and are interdependent. Furthermore, we underline that each distinct utility product (communication, transportation, water, etc.) provided to our households incurs similar material and embodied energy expenses. But are such structures and their respective expenses really necessary? Or could energy (and other resources) be saved by reducing redundant utility infrastructures, while still maintaining services to the households? Conventional approaches to improved utility provision focus on better management models with optimization, enhanced handling, and increased efficiency in organisations. This paper, on the other hand, presents a novel and radical idea to address this complex problem, by moving from the management level to the scientific & technological level. The paper challenges the need for distinct utility infrastructures for household utility products provision. In particular, the paper discusses the emerging scientific and technological options for using a single energy-provision infrastructure, which would potentially deliver the full set of household utility services.
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    Project Neptune: Improved Operation of Water Distribution Networks
    (ASCE, 2008-08-17) Savic, D. A.; Boxall, J. B.; Ulanicki, Bogumil; Kapelan, Z.; Makropoulos, C.; Fenner, R.; Soga, K.; Marshall, I. W.; Maksimovic, C.; Postlethwaite, Ian; Ashley, R.; Graham, N.
    Water service providers (WSPs) in the UK have statutory obligations to supply drinking water to all customers that complies with increasingly stringent water quality egulations and minimum flow and pressure criteria. At the same time, the industry is required by egulators and investors to demonstrate increasing operational efficiency and to meet a wide range of performance criteria that are expected to improve year-on-year. Most WSPs have an ideal for improving the operation of their water supply systems based on increased knowledge and understanding of their assets and a shift to proactive management followed by steadily increasing degrees of system monitoring, utomation and optimisation. The fundamental mission is, however, to ensure security of supply, with no interruptions and water quality of the highest standard at the tap. Unfortunately, advanced technologies required to fully understand, manage and automate water supply system operation either do not yet exist, are only partially evolved, or have not yet been reliably proven for live water distribution systems. It is this deficiency that the project NEPTUNE seeks to address by carrying out research into 3 main areas; these are: data and knowledge management; pressure management (including energy management); and the associated complex decision support systems on which to base interventions. The 3-year project started in April of 2007 and has already resulted in a number of research findings under the three main research priority areas (RPA). The paper summarises in greater detail the overall project objectives, the RPA activities and the areas of research innovation that are being undertaken in this major, UK collaborative study.
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    Project neptune: Improved operation of water distribution networks.
    (ASCE, 2009) Savic, D. A.; Boxall, J. B.; Ulanicki, Bogumil; Kapelan, Z.; Makropoulos, C.; Fenner, R.; Soga, K.; Marshall, I. W.; Maksimovic, C.; Postlethwaite, I.; Ashley, R.; Graham, N.
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    Rethinking Future of Utilities: Supplying All Services through One Sustainable Utility Infrastructure
    (ACS Publications, 2012) Camci, Fatih; Ulanicki, Bogumil; Boxall, J. B.; Chitchyan, R.; Varga, L.; Karaca, F.
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    Single infrastructure utility provision to households: Technological feasibility study
    (Elsevier, 2013) Karaca, F.; Raven, Paul G.; Machell, J.; Varga, L.; Camci, Fatih; Chitchyan, R.; Boxall, J. B.; Ulanicki, Bogumil; Skworcow, P.; Strzelecka, A.; Ozawa-Meida, L.; Janus, T.