Optimal Design of Water Transmission System with Pumping

Applying mathematical models to obtain optimal solution for water transmission system has been of major concern during the last few decades. Optimization problem for water transmission system is considered as a non-linear problem during the search process to identify the decision variables (i.e. pipe diameter and cost of pipe and pump). In this paper, flow path algorithm has been adopted to obtain the optimal design of the basic unit of water transmission system involving pumping i.e. three reservoir systems. The effect of pumping head on the optimal design of water transmission system has been considered in this work.