Design, optimization, and deployment of a waterworks pumping station control system

This article presents a summary of the development and realization of a custom control and monitoring system for a water supply facility consisting of fixed-capacity intake pumps, a reservoir tank, and variable-speed outtake pumps.Project realization included the design and building of control hardware, as well as the design and deployment of the intake pump switching algorithm. Details of the control system design with an emphasis on the pump switching algorithm are given. The stages of the system development, including process modeling, design goal formulation, optimization of control algorithm using genetic algorithms, simulation, and implementation, are presented. Finally, deployment and real-life results are shown.

► Model of filling the reservoir with water by fixed capacity pumps at variable outflow. ► Described minimization of multivariate cost function by genetic algorithm. ► Significant reduction of pump switching operations number thanks to optimization. ► Pumps wear equalization and prioritization achieved using FIFO queues.