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    Extended time period simulation EPANET

    Not sure the previous post shows the attachment: https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=5e251348-0994-485a-8005-4c84af842f42&file=0001.inp https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=ae78231d-5adb-4a6e-9f87-0541f305cd7a&file=0001.net
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    Extended time period simulation EPANET

    Thank you JGard1985. I have edited the file because I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share the original project (which replicates an actual aqueduct) so you won't find any town names on the objects and the network has less components, but it still contains the pump in question. To answer 1): this...
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    Extended time period simulation EPANET

    Hi everyone, Since the question is serious, allow me to go straigth to the problem. I'm modeling a tank with a storage capacity of 100 cubic meters, the inflow of 51 l/s is provided by a constant power pump, while about the same outflow of 50 l/s (180 cubic meters per hour) is drawn by two...
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    Verify a water tank capacity

    Thank you so much 77JQX, you put me in the right direction, in fact “PSVs maintain a set pressure at a specific point in the pipe network”. I haven’t tried on my project yet, but it worked perfectly in this example below, setting the PSV valve to zero and its upstream junction’s elevation equal...
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    Verify a water tank capacity

    Adding a pump could be a way, thank you for the advice Pinwards, I was also wandering if a flow control valve (setting its flow equal to the value obtained in the stady state simulation) could help. But, before introducing elements that does not exist (actually there aren't any pumps and, I...
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    Verify a water tank capacity

    I found a better image of the situation that I'm modelling: do you know if EPANET can represent this particular configuration? Tanks again.
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    Verify a water tank capacity

    Hi gerhardl, tank you for the advice. My objective is to perform an extended period simulation. I have only an element reservoir and an element tank connected with a pipe. The element tank is modeled assigning all the parameters: diameter, initial level, minimum and maximum level. Steady State...
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    Verify a water tank capacity

    Hi everybody, I have been given the task to analyze the behaviour of a storage tank with the predicted populaton at year 2048. Since it is the first time that I face such a problem I decided to try the free software EPANET to evaluate how the tank's volume changes in time(due to a demand...

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