This paper presents a newly developed tool for evaluating the hydraulic performance of a pressurised irrigation sprinkler distribution network. These systems are characterised by significant variability in the placement and size of water demand, as sprinklers, e.g., hose reel irrigators, are usually moving from place to place. Moreover, they are devices that take a lot of water in one place. This leads to many possible operating scenarios, and traditional simulation models alone are not capable of tackling this variation in possible operational scenarios. Thus, the paper’s authors developed a package (add-in) in the R programming language environment that can help to solve this task. Besides various tools in this package (R functions) allowing users to edit network parameters, run hydraulic simulations, and evaluate results in tables and graphs, specific modules for dealing with operation variability were also developed. The most significant of those is the generator of operating situations, which hydraulic simulation can subsequently evaluate. This means assessing whether the pressures and flows in the irrigation network allow the operation of the irrigators. Regarding the satisfaction of the required pressure in the hydrants, hydraulic situations, where the demand is more concentrated in some parts of the network, will be more problematic, especially if this happens in the end parts of the network. The presented software is intended to warn the irrigation system operator of such situations so that he avoids them, so the operation of an irrigation system works without problems (i.e., with sufficient pressure in the hydrants). The generator of the operation situations and evaluation of hydraulic analysis has been successfully tested on a large irrigation network.
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27 September 2023
WORLD MULTIDISCIPLINARY CIVIL ENGINEERING-ARCHITECTURE-URBAN PLANNING SYMPOSIUM WMCAUS 2022
5–9 September 2022
Prague, Czech Republic
Research Article|
September 27 2023
Analysis and benchmarking of sprinkler irrigation system performance
Milan Cisty;
Milan Cisty
a)
1
Department of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
, Radlinského11, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
a)Corresponding author: [email protected]
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Zbynek Bajtek;
Zbynek Bajtek
1
Department of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
, Radlinského11, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
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Lubomir Celar;
Lubomir Celar
1
Department of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
, Radlinského11, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
2
PIXEL FEDERATION, s.r.o
., Einsteinova 19, 851 01 Bratislava, Slovakia
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Barbora Povazanova
Barbora Povazanova
1
Department of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
, Radlinského11, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
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a)Corresponding author: [email protected]
AIP Conf. Proc. 2928, 090011 (2023)
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Milan Cisty, Zbynek Bajtek, Lubomir Celar, Barbora Povazanova; Analysis and benchmarking of sprinkler irrigation system performance. AIP Conf. Proc. 27 September 2023; 2928 (1): 090011. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0171529
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