Australia - SMART IRRIGATION
Flow regulating | Surge Prevention | Reservoir Level-Control
CASE STUDY – FLOW REGULATING | SURGE PREVENTION RESERVOIR LEVEL-CONTROL
SMART IRRIGATION IN AUSTRALIA
Background
52,777 ML was this amount of total water delivered for each irrigation scheme customer category during the 2018–19 year
The Perth region’s irrigation scheme is the Harvey Water Irrigation Area which comprises three irrigation districts: Waroona, Harvey, and Collie River.
There are more than 1,600 customers in the Harvey Water irrigation scheme, most of whom receive water from the scheme for irrigation purposes.
Challenge
Our customer is a water provider, who supplies irrigation water to various customers. The need to increase the efficiency of irrigation water supply network defined clear objectives: to regulate the flow rate to each of the consumers and to prevent pressure surges during valve opening and closing
The network designer issued a request for (1) a flow regulating control valve that slowly and steadily increases or decreases the flow over a predefinedperiod of time to eliminate water hammer damage, and (2) to regulate flow to a desired value.
Results
Dorot Digital Solutions proposed a system that efficiently and dynamically manages the water supply for irrigation consumption, allowing remote control and multiple configurations of various functions, based upon numerous variables such as pressure, flow, water level, and more.
Dorot Digital Solutions proposed a system that efficiently and dynamically manages the water supply for irrigation consumption, allowing remote control and multiple configurations of various functions, based upon numerous variables such as pressure, flow, water level and more.
The solution enabled the client to set the required time to open/close the valve, regulate the flow to any desired value and locally or automatically open/close the valve according to reservoir level.
The system was installed and commissioned in May 2020. Following a short in field calibration, the system performed as expected, to the full satisfaction of the client.
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