Software facilitates gravity-pumped system modeling.
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Designed for global wastewater industry, InfoSWMM Conduit Storage Synthesizer calculates stage-storage relationships for gravity-pumped systems. Full-featured InfoSWMM urban drainage network analysis and design program addresses all operations of typical sewer system in one fully integrated geoengineering environment. Along with full dynamic solution modeling and real-time control scheme, solution offers capabilities for managing combined sanitary and storm sewers.
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MWH Soft Releases InfoSWMM CSS, Best-in-Class Solution for Comprehensive Modeling of Complex Gravity-Pumped Systems
Revolutionary Conduit Storage Synthesizer Module Accurately Calculates Stage-Storage Relationships for Gravity-Pumped Systems, Leading to More Reliable, Cost-Effective Designs
Broomfield, Colorado USA, September 6, 2006 - In its ongoing quest to equip the global wastewater industry with the world's most comprehensive and innovative GIS-centric modeling and design solutions, MWH Soft today announced the release of InfoSWMM Conduit Storage Synthesizer (CSS). The new InfoSWMM Suite extension gives users expanded power and accuracy in estimating stage-storage relationships for large and complex gravity-pumped systems, leading to more reliable and cost-effective design and operation.
The full-featured InfoSWMM urban drainage network analysis and design program delivers the highest rate of return in the industry. It addresses all operations of a typical sewer system - from analysis and design to management functions like water quality assessment, pollution prediction, urban flooding, real-time control and record keeping - in a single, fully integrated geoengineering environment. InfoSWMM gives users unprecedented capabilities for managing urban runoff and wet weather water quality problems in combined, sanitary and storm sewers, optimizing BMP and LID designs, and meeting SSO and CSO regulations.
The extremely powerful program can be used to model the entire land phase of the hydrologic cycle as applied to urban stormwater and wastewater collection systems, or to perform single event or long-term (continuous) rainfall-runoff simulations that account for climate, soil, land use, and topographic conditions of the watershed. InfoSWMM can even predict runoff quality-including buildup and washoff of pollutants from primarily urban watersheds.
The software incorporates full dynamic solution modeling of backwater effects and reverse flow, open channels, trunk sewers, storage and treatment units, pumps and complex hydraulic structures like weirs and orifices. An advanced real-time control scheme makes it easier to optimize storage and operational procedures. Powerful graphics and reporting tools make these sophisticated modeling applications fast and easy, regardless of their users' technical expertise.
InfoSWMM also supports a variety of specialized treatment plant control devices and river profiles. An Integrated Catchment Management solution allows users to model the sewer system, the receiving water and the wastewater treatment plant in a unified manner.
The new InfoSWMM CSS extension reflects MWH Soft's time-honored practice of continually adding value to its world-class software and bringing critical new design capabilities to the industry. It determines storage capacity in a conduit network based on a dynamic analysis of the wastewater system volume under changing heads. This is a significant step forward for wastewater engineers who are analyzing large and complex gravity-pumped systems. Faced with such challenges, engineers often deactivate the gravity portions of the network and model only the pressurized network components-allowing the wet-wells draining the gravity networks to supply the boundary conditions and inflow points for the "decoupled" network. However, ignoring the storage available in gravity conduits can lead to oversized pump designs, because the overall storage volume is much larger than the volume available in the wet-well alone.
In contrast to such inaccurate volume approximation procedures, InfoSWMM CSS advanced hydraulic computational analysis technology produces the most accurate and representative stage- storage relationships modeling in the industry. CSS dynamically computes and returns the gravity-system conduit volume upstream from the wet-well as additional volume-resulting in the most accurate and effortless model decoupling process available. The module builds a depth-storage curve for the gravity portion of the collection system, integrates it with the original depth-volume relationship of the wet-well, and constructs aggregated depth-area curve for the wet-well. Model results are provided in tabular and graphical format for easy review. InfoSWMM CSS can also calculate the depth/volume relationship for natural channels and flood plains.
Other InfoSWMM Suite modules include:
Dry Weather Flow Allocator extension: automatically computes and assigns wastewater loads generated by various customer categories, based on land use, population, or meter data.
Subcatchment Manager extension: automatically defines all subcatchments and calculates their hydrologic parameters.
Optimal Calibration extension: automatically adjusts sewer parameters to match any combination of flow, depth, and velocity measurements. Parameters can include any combination of subcatchment, soil, aquifer, RDII, and conduit properties.
Optimal Design extension: automatically determines the most cost-effective combination of pipe slope and size, storage volume, pumping capacity and new piping to best convey sewer flows without surcharging, overflows, flooding, and backups.
Risk Assessment Manager extension: automatically computes the extent of sewer overflows and flooding (volume and reach), calculates population at risk, pinpoints sources overloading the system, locates system capacity limitations and blockages, and estimates property damage costs. Overland flow pathways can also be quickly examined, showing the lateral routes and spreading of floodwaters.
"Just over a year ago, we introduced the world to InfoSWMM Suite," said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D, President and Chief Operating Officer of MWH Soft. "Our goal was to provide the wastewater industry with all the analysis, design, validation, data management, and optimization tools they needed in one complete, easy to use and affordable package. In adding yet another vanguard complementary module to the program, we are moving to further help wastewater utilities determine the most cost-effective way to keep their systems operating efficiently well into the future while safeguarding against adverse health and environmental effects. This vital solution opens a world of modeling possibilities that will make an immediate difference in people's lives, and we are especially pleased to bring it to the market."
"MWH Soft has a rich history of commitment to providing the most comprehensive and advanced software tools possible for the engineering community," commented J. Erick Heath, PE, Vice President of Marketing and Client Relations at MWH Soft. "With the addition of CSS to the highly acclaimed InfoSWMM portfolio suite, we now offer the best in urban drainage modeling and design integrated with the best in engineering."
Pricing and availability
The new InfoSWMM CSS extension is now available worldwide by subscription to the Platinum Program. Subscription members can immediately download the new extension free of charge directly from www.mwhsoft.com. The MWH Soft Subscription Program is a friendly customer support and software maintenance program that ensures the longevity and usefulness of MWH Soft products. It gives subscribers instant access to new functionality as it is developed, along with automatic software updates and upgrades. MWH Soft product extensions are available only through the Platinum Program. For the latest information on the MWH Soft Subscription Program, visit www.mwhsoft.com or contact your local MWH Soft Certified Representative.
About MWH Soft
MWH Soft is a leading global provider of technical and infrastructure software and professional solutions designed to meet the technological needs of utilities, government industries, and engineering organizations worldwide. Its clients include the majority of the largest North American cities and ENR top design firms. The multifaceted, state-of-the-art CAD and GIS enabled products created by MWH Soft empower thousands of engineers across the globe to competitively manage, design, and operate highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems. For more information, call MWH Soft at (626) 568-6868, or visit www.mwhsoft.com.
MWH Soft Contact
J. Erick Heath, PE
Vice President of Sales and Client Relations
Erick.Heath@mwhsoft.com
(626) 568-6868
