- The system allows for the online detection of both potential spills into the natural environment and infiltrations in the pipe system.
The members of the GESTOR project, the initiative led by FACSA which, together with the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) and the engineering consultancy ABM Serveis d'Enginyeria i Consulting SL, aims to improve the efficiency of urban sanitation infrastructures, recently held a new meeting in Castelló to share the progress in the development of this innovative platform.
This is an advanced software capable of detecting potential problems or needs in urban sewer systems in advance, from spills during rain events to possible infiltrations in the pipe system, as well as estimating corrosion and the useful life of the different sections that make up the system.
During the meeting, attendees presented the results obtained for detecting leaks, sewer corrosion, and infiltration using Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) techniques. They also reviewed how these results have been incorporated into the platform currently under development and shared the progress made in the system's development.
Similarly, the attendees have studied how this platform responds to each of the risks and indicators defined in relation to the renewal of the sanitation infrastructure of the city of Peñíscola.
Regarding the distribution of tasks, while ABM has been in charge of simulating the sewer networks, ICRA has taken on the development of the tool and FACSA is working both on its validation in the sewer network and on the work related to the prediction of discharges from the unitary sewer systems (DSU) and the corrosion of the network.
The project, with file number RTC-2016-4876-5, has been co-financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the Challenges-Collaboration call of the State Program of Research, Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of Society, within the framework of the State Plan of Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016.
