Modelación del sistema hidráulico de la red de agua potable de la planta de tratamiento Jesús del Gran Poder

Abstract

With regard to the technological development and the importance of incorporate new work tools to spend in better ways the time on engineering activities, this study focuses on the utilization of software like AutoCAD Civil 3D, ArcGIS and WaterGems to evaluate the Jesús del Gran Poder System Water Supply from the Molleturo’s parish of the canton Cuenca, with the objective of simulating the operation of the distribution network with current flow and designed flow for the year 2034. After all this analysis the potentialities and limitations of the system water supply will be shown and explained as well as the proposals for improvement of the system. Chapter I details the basic information of the system water supply and also of the beneficiary communities. Chapter II exposes the hydraulic systems operation and its components. This chapter also explains the conceptual foundations of the three software: WaterGems, ArcGIS and AutoCAD Civil 3D, and shows the feasibility that this programs have to use them in water projects. Chapter III develops the population study and determines the demands generated in the present and in the future of the 8 beneficiary communities. In Chapter IV it is provided the topology properties for each element of the distribution network, setting the coverage that the system water supply has. This chapter explains step by step the process of how to generate a hydraulic model with the software WaterGems, this hydraulic model will be used later on to simulate several calculation scenarios. In Chapter V it is pointed the different problems in the distribution network and also offers recommendations for the system water supply.