Delivering sustainable water systems by optimising existing infrastructure via improved knowledge, understanding and technology - project NEPTUNE

Completed

Not Energy Related
Energy Efficiency(Industry)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Computer Science and Informatics)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor NJD Graham
Civil and Environmental Eng
Imperial College London

Standard

EPSRC

23 March 2007

22 September 2010

42 months

£2,345,886

Civil eng. & built environment

London

Energy Multidisciplinary Applications

Professor NJD Graham, Civil and Environmental Eng, Imperial College London

Professor RM Ashley, Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield
Dr J Boxall, Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield
Professor D Butler, Engineering Computer Science and Maths, University of Exeter
Dr R. A Fenner, Engineering, University of Cambridge
Dr Z Kapelan, Engineering Computer Science and Maths, University of Exeter
Dr S Khu, Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Surrey
Professor IW Marshall, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
Professor I Postlethwaite, School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences, Northumbria University
Dr E Prempain, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester
Dr SL Prescott, School of Engineering & Technology, De Montfort University
Professor A J Saul, Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield
Professor D Savic, Wastewater and Reuse, KWR Watercycle Research Institute
Dr K Soga, Engineering, University of Cambridge
Dr B Ulanicki, School of Engineering & Technology, De Montfort University

Dr C Makropoulos, Engineering Computer Science and Maths, University of Exeter
Professor C Maksimovic, Imperial College London

Water service providers (WSPs) have obligations to supply drinking water to all consumers that meets increasingly stringent water quality regulations and minimum flow and pressure criteria. At the same time, WSPs are required to be ever more efficient to demonstrate value, moves to sustainable operation and also to be more profitable (even where the supplies are publicly provided). Worldwide, not only in the UK, suppliers of water increasingly have to meet a widening range of performance criteria that are expected to improve year-on-year. Other pressures include the growing costs and availability of energy needed to deliver water, especially through pumping, the increasing uncertainty caused by climate change and the drive to minimise water losses from supply networks. Traditionally the supply of water via networks, to the tap, has been provided by large scale engineering and low-risk, low-technology systems. These rely heavily on energy use for pumping etc. and often operate inefficiently, with more pumping than is needed and excessive pressures in networks, leading to higher than necessary levels of leakage. NEPTUNE intends, by advancing knowledge and understanding and introducing new IT and technological systems, to provide the means whereby water service providers in the UK (and elsewhere, where the systems are similar), can better integrate the operation of their supply systems, to more efficiently manage security at the tap, minimise leakage and the redundant andunnecessary transfer of water or storage, hence saving resources, especially costs and energy

01/01/07