A review of domestic hot water consumption profiles for application in systems and buildings energy performance analysis

E Fuentes, L Arce, J Salom - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Domestic hot water usage (DHW) accounts for a significant share of energy consumption in
different types of buildings. Achieving a detailed characterization of domestic hot water …

Review of current technologies and proposed intelligent methodologies for water distributed network leakage detection

TK Chan, CS Chin, X Zhong - Ieee Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Water is a precious resource that should be managed carefully. However, due to leakages in
water distributed networks (WDNs), a large amount of water is lost each year that suggests …

Simulating residential water demand with a stochastic end-use model

EJM Blokker, JHG Vreeburg… - Journal of Water …, 2010 - ascelibrary.org
A water demand end-use model was developed to predict water demand patterns with a
small time scale (1 s) and small spatial scale (residence level). The end-use model is based …

Smart meters data for modeling and forecasting water demand at the user-level

JE Pesantez, EZ Berglund, N Kaza - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2020 - Elsevier
Smart meters installed at the user-level provide a new data source for managing water
infrastructure. This research explores the use of machine learning methods, including …

Assessing the public health risk of microbial intrusion events in distribution systems: Conceptual model, available data, and challenges

MC Besner, M Prévost, S Regli - Water research, 2011 - Elsevier
Low and negative pressure events in drinking water distribution systems have the potential
to result in intrusion of pathogenic microorganisms if an external source of contamination is …

[HTML][HTML] Variability and sampling of lead (Pb) in drinking water: Assessing potential human exposure depends on the sampling protocol

S Triantafyllidou, J Burkhardt, J Tully, K Cahalan… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lead (Pb) in drinking water has re-emerged as a modern public health threat which can vary
widely in space and in time (ie, between homes, within homes and even at the same tap …

Modeling occupant behavior's influence on the energy efficiency of solar domestic hot water systems

X Zhou, S Tian, J An, D Yan, L Zhang, J Yang - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar hot water (SHW) systems are widely used to save energy and reduce CO 2 emissions.
The domestic hot water (DHW) usage behavior of occupants has a significant influence on …

[HTML][HTML] Urban water consumption at multiple spatial and temporal scales. A review of existing datasets

A Di Mauro, A Cominola, A Castelletti, A Di Nardo - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the last three decades, the increasing development of smart water meter trials and the
rise of demand management has fostered the collection of water demand data at …

Demand components in water distribution network analysis

O Giustolisi, TM Walski - Journal of Water Resources Planning and …, 2012 - ascelibrary.org
Solving water distribution network hydraulics depends to a great extent on demand
representation in the related simulation models. The classical approach of simulation …

Energy in the urban water cycle: Actions to reduce the total expenditure of fossil fuels with emphasis on heat reclamation from urban water

JA Elías-Maxil, JP Van Der Hoek, J Hofman… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the urban water cycle, water supply, transportation, treatment and disposal are services
that consume a considerable amount of energy. This paper reviews and summarizes state of …