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Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 12(4), pp. 2532 - 2546
DOI: 10.13189/cea.2024.120403
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Methodology for the Generation of Hourly Residential Drinking Water Consumption Curves and Their Relationship with the Consumption of Socioeconomic Strata
Mar铆a Z煤帽iga 1,*, Erika Calder贸n 1, Mar铆a Isabel Tello 1, Alexis Andrade 1,2, Alfonso Arellano 1
1 Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Ecuador
2 PhD Program in Architecture, Heritage and the City, Universitat Polit猫cnica de Val猫ncia, Spain
ABSTRACT
Drinking water distribution networks are responsible for supplying drinking water from the reservoir to each of the users of the system. The increase in population density, culture, customs and economic capacity of the population directly affects the consumption of drinking water and therefore the design of the supply networks. The objective of this research is to establish a methodology for the generation of residential hourly consumption curves and the relationship between these curves and the socioeconomic strata. A field data collection methodology has been proposed similar to the Average Daily Annual Transit (AADT), where water consumption data is collected at micro-meters in homes during 7 days, 24 hours a day. The current national standard CPE INEN 5, in its section 4.1.5 states that the maximum hourly consumption coefficients should be established based on existing studies, otherwise the values of 2.0 to 2.30 will be used. The standard has not been updated since the nineties, which is why it is necessary to implement a useful methodology to verify whether the maximum hourly coefficients are within the proposed range and are implemented in mathematical models to evaluate the dynamic behavior of a distribution network. For the urban and socioeconomic characterization, the method of Arellano, Gonz谩lez & Gavilanes is used, which is limited to populations of less than 150,000 inhabitants. For the determination of the study sample, a simple random probability sampling is considered. Applying this methodology to two small Andean towns (less than 5000 inhabitants) within the urban area in Ecuador, residential hourly modulation coefficients outside the range were obtained (Colta 2.72 and Penipe 2.96).
KEYWORDS
Potable Water, Modulation Curve, Residential, Hourly Factor
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[1] Mar铆a Z煤帽iga , Erika Calder贸n , Mar铆a Isabel Tello , Alexis Andrade , Alfonso Arellano , "Methodology for the Generation of Hourly Residential Drinking Water Consumption Curves and Their Relationship with the Consumption of Socioeconomic Strata," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 2532 - 2546, 2024. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2024.120403.
(b). APA Format:
Mar铆a Z煤帽iga , Erika Calder贸n , Mar铆a Isabel Tello , Alexis Andrade , Alfonso Arellano (2024). Methodology for the Generation of Hourly Residential Drinking Water Consumption Curves and Their Relationship with the Consumption of Socioeconomic Strata. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 12(4), 2532 - 2546. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2024.120403.