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Water Distribution Modeling Software

Water Distribution Modeling Software

(OP)
My office is interested in purchasing software to run a water distribution analysis... I am trying to research and do comparisons on the ones I've found so far - KYPIPE Pipe2008, WaterGEMS or WaterCAD from Haestad, and the free EpaNET... Are there any others I should consider?  Does anyone have any recommendations?  We will not be using this software very often.

RE: Water Distribution Modeling Software

If your not going to be using it often, how could you possibly cost justify anything other than EPANET?

 And, why would you want to?

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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/

RE: Water Distribution Modeling Software

EPAnet is free, it does everything I need in modeling.
I have built models with thousands of pipes and used a majority of the features.  True the purchased products have fancy gizmo's to make data entry easy, automated fire flow calculation.  EPAnet has a similar systems but require a little more thought.
Just the other day, I was working with a small system, and in less than a hour I assembled a model with 30 pipes, time functions and fire flow calculation.  I do not see how spending thousands of dollars can pay for itself.

Hydrae

RE: Water Distribution Modeling Software

(OP)
Thank you for your responses.  After reading through more threads and discussing with my boss, we have decided to try the epaNET - I don't think we need all the bells & whistles, and this program should do everything we are looking to accomplish.  I appreciate your honesty!

RE: Water Distribution Modeling Software

feiginfam,
I´m work to design a air distribution pipes for aeration devices used at wastewater treatment plant and would like to have a pdf format for the crane #410 technical paper. Could you inform how I can get it?

RE: Water Distribution Modeling Software

Buy ome.  Scan it and convert it to pdf.

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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/

RE: Water Distribution Modeling Software

BigInch
Could you inform some web address do buy it? I´d appreciate

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