Professor Joby Boxall FREng (he/him)
PhD
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Professor of Water Infrastructure Engineering
+44 114 222 5760
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School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Room E104a
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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My research protects public health and well-being by ensuring the quantity and quality of our drinking water and the resilience and sustainability of our water supply.
Professor Joby Boxall
Professor Joby Boxall is Chair of Water Infrastructure Engineering.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.
He trained as a civil engineer, specialising in hydraulics. His PhD was in mixing and transport of pollutants in natural river channels.
Joby’s research is concerned with urban water (with a focus on water supply, distribution pipe networks in particular), and helps to protect public health and well-being through ensuring the quantity and quality of that supply. His research is challenge driven and involves close collaboration and trusted partnerships across the water sector.
He takes a multidisciplinary approach to ensuring the provision of sustainable water services in the face of global grand challenges such as population growth and increasing density, climate change and ageing infrastructure. Joby’s research focuses on the operation and management of water distribution systems, ranging from leakage, to water quality and asset management.
His core expertise is in hydraulic engineering, but he is known for integration and application of other disciplines to address major challenges. His interdisciplinary work ranges from applied microbiology to computer to social science. His leadership of the EPSRC Water Grand Challenges consortium is a flagship example of this.
His long-running Prediction of Discolouration in Distribution Systems research is a leading example of world leading research delivering real world impact and change. It has and continues to help water companies and their supply chain to deliver substantial service improvements in the supply of safe and wholesome drinking water through ageing pipe infrastructure, while delivering multi-million-pound efficiency savings.
He looks at the conditions inside our water pipes, including the biofilms in our water systems to ensure they don’t harbour harmful bacteria. He also investigates contaminant ingress, where dangerous contaminants can enter pipes through leaks and be transported through the pipe network.
Joby’s research aims to understand our hydraulics systems’ behaviour by modelling networks and using data, modelling and AI to better understand and predict where failures might occur and to inform proactive decision making.
His research on leakage ranges from fundamental understanding of fluid structure ground iterations to novel artificial intelligence based software for leak detection that has been commercialised.
Joby has taught a range of modules, from specialist masters levels modules on modelling water distribution systems, to core undergraduate modules on open channel flow and principles of hydraulics. He pioneered innovative ‘self-teach’ open-channel flow laboratory classes.
Joby has held a number of important roles in the Department including being Head of Department from 2017 until 2021. He was also Departmental Director of Research from 2009 to 2014, where he led the 2014 Research Excellence Framework submission.
- Publications
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- Edited books
- Journal articles
- Chapters
- Conference proceedings papers
- Reports
- Posters
- Theses / Dissertations
Edited books
Journal articles
- Fatigue failure analysis of grey cast iron water pipes accounting for fatigue strength variation. Engineering Failure Analysis, 165, 108762-108762.
- A data‐driven predictive model for disinfectant residual in drinking water storage tanks. AWWA Water Science, 6(3).
- Proactive pipe management: Multiaxial fatigue of water pipe grey cast iron. Engineering Integrity – Journal of the Engineering Integrity Society, 56, 12-17.
- Multiaxial fatigue of water pipe grey cast iron. International Journal of Fatigue, 178. View this article in WRRO
- Why digital water – knowledge application and hydroinformatics?. Digital Water, 1(1).
- Integrated Sensor Placement and Leak Localization Using Geospatial Genetic
Algorithms. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 149(9).
- Managing discolouration in drinking water distribution systems by integrating understanding of material behaviour. Water Research, 243, 120416-120416.
- Costing of Strategies for Long-term Trunk Main Discolouration Management. Water Research, 120301-120301.
- Predicting heterotrophic plate count exceedance in tap water: a binary classification model supervised by culture-independent data. Water Research, 120172-120172.
- A Big Data framework for actionable information to manage drinking water quality. AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society.
- A data quality assessment framework for drinking water distribution system water quality time series datasets. Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology.
- The impact of ground heat capacity on drinking water temperature. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 149(5).
- Simulating long term discolouration behaviour in large diameter trunk mains. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
- Future Inspection and Deterioration Prediction Capabilities for Buried Distributed Water Infrastructure. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 13(3).
- Spatial and temporal considerations of implementing local renewable energy sources and decentralised heat recovery for domestic heat. Journal of Cleaner Production, 358, 131995-131995.
- Non-invasive biofouling monitoring to assess drinking water distribution system performance. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. View this article in WRRO
- Assimilable organic carbon cycling within drinking water distribution systems. Water Research, 198.
- Implications of climate change: how does increased water temperature influence biofilm and water quality of chlorinated drinking water distribution systems?. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. View this article in WRRO
- Intermittent Water Supply Impacts on Distribution System Biofilms and Water Quality. Water Research, 117372-117372.
- An Experimental Study of How Hydraulic Transients Cause Mobilisation of Material Within Drinking Water Distribution Systems. Water Research, 116890-116890.
- Robot localization in water pipes using acoustic signals and pose graph optimization. Sensors, 20(19). View this article in WRRO
- Unchartered waters : the unintended impacts of residual chlorine on water quality and biofilms. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 6. View this article in WRRO
- The operational value of inlet monitoring at service reservoirs. Urban Water Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Simulation of the behavior of biologically-inspired swarm robots for the autonomous inspection of buried pipes. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 101. View this article in WRRO
- Reducing carbon emissions by integrating urban water systems and renewable energy sources at a community scale. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 123. View this article in WRRO
- Decision-making tools to manage the microbiology of drinking water distribution systems. Water, 12(5). View this article in WRRO
- Drinking water temperature around the globe : understanding, policies, challenges and opportunities. Water, 12(4). View this article in WRRO
- Disturbance Extraction for Burst Detection in Water Distribution Networks Using Pressure Measurements. Water Resources Research, 56(5).
- Application of enhanced assimilable organic carbon method across operational drinking water systems. PLOS ONE, 14(12). View this article in WRRO
- Calibrating and validating a combined accumulation and mobilisation model for water distribution system discolouration using particle swarm optimisation. Smart Water, 4. View this article in WRRO
- Impact of hydraulic interventions on chronic and acute material loading and discolouration risk in drinking water distribution systems. Water Research. View this article in WRRO
- A novel demonstration of adhered material mobilisation by hydraulic transients. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 5(12), 2132-2141. View this article in WRRO
- Effect of temperature increase in bacterial and fungal communities of chlorinated drinking water distribution systems. Access Microbiology, 1(1A). View this article in WRRO
- Identification of the Causes of Drinking Water Discolouration from Machine Learning Analysis of Historical Datasets. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. View this article in WRRO
- Hydraulic conditioning to manage potable water discolouration. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, 172(1), 3-13. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding microbial ecology to improve management of drinking water distribution systems. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 6(1). View this article in WRRO
- Experimental quantification of intrusion volumes due to transients in drinking water distribution systems. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 10(1).
- Whole metagenome sequencing of chlorinated drinking water distribution systems. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology, 4(12), 2080-2091. View this article in WRRO
- Biofilm microbiome (re)growth dynamics in drinking water distribution systems are impacted by chlorine concentration. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9(OCT). View this article in WRRO
- Succession of bacterial and fungal communities within biofilms of a chlorinated drinking water distribution system. Water Research, 141, 74-85. View this article in WRRO
- Derivation and validation of a leakage model for longitudinal slits in polyethylene pipes. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 144(7). View this article in WRRO
- Biofilm structures (EPS and bacterial communities) in drinking water distribution systems are conditioned by hydraulics and influence discolouration. Science of the Total Environment, 593-594, 571-580. View this article in WRRO
- Quantity and quality benefits of in-service invasive cleaning of trunk mains. Drinking Water Engineering and Science, 10(2), 45-52. View this article in WRRO
- Ensemble Decision Tree Models Using RUSBoost for Estimating Risk of Iron Failure in Drinking Water Distribution Systems. Water Resources Management, 31(5), 1575-1589. View this article in WRRO
- Briefing: Disruptive socio-technical solutions to drive re-visualisation of water service provision. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Water Management, 170(3), 111-114. View this article in WRRO
- Spatial and temporal analogies in microbial communities in natural drinking water biofilms. Science of the Total Environment, 581-582, 277-288. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding and Managing Discolouration Risk in Trunk Mains. Water Research, 107, 127-140. View this article in WRRO
- Case-based reasoning to support decision making for managing drinking water quality events in distribution systems. Urban Water Journal, 13(7), 727-738. View this article in WRRO
- Experimental study exploring the interaction of structural and leakage dynamics. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. View this article in WRRO
- Linking discolouration modelling and biofilm behaviour within drinking water distribution systems. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 16(4), 942-950. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamics of Biofilm Regrowth in Drinking Water Distribution Systems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(14), 4155-4168. View this article in WRRO
- Operational management of trunk main discolouration risk. Urban Water Journal, 13(4), 382-395. View this article in WRRO
- Relating Water Quality and Age in Drinking Water Distribution Systems Using Self-Organising Maps. Environments, 3(2). View this article in WRRO
- Characterising and understanding the impact of microbial biofilms and the extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix in drinking water distribution systems. Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2(4), 614-630. View this article in WRRO
- Microbial analysis of in situ biofilm formation in drinking water distribution systems: implications for monitoring and control of drinking water quality. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 100(7), 3301-3311. View this article in WRRO
- Physical investigation into the significance of ground conditions on dynamic leakage behaviour. Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - Aqua, 65(2), 103-115. View this article in WRRO
- Multivariate data mining for estimating the rate of discolouration material accumulation in drinking water distribution systems. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 18(1), 96-114. View this article in WRRO
- Portable LED fluorescence instrumentation for the rapid assessment of potable water quality. Science of The Total Environment, 524-525, 338-346. View this article in WRRO
- Experimental Quantification of Contaminant Ingress into a Buried Leaking Pipe during Transient Events. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 142(1). View this article in WRRO
- Automated Data-Driven Approaches to Evaluating and Interpreting Water Quality Time Series Data from Water Distribution Systems. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 141(11). View this article in WRRO
- Characterisation of the Physical Composition and Microbial Community Structure of Biofilms within a Model Full-Scale Drinking Water Distribution System. PLOS ONE, 10(2), e0115824-e0115824. View this article in WRRO
- Predictive water quality modelling and resilience flow conditioning to manage discolouration risk in operational trunk mains. Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-Aqua, 64(5), 529-542. View this article in WRRO
- Investigating in-service failures of water pipes from a multiaxial notch fatigue point of view: A conceptual study. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 229(7), 1240-1259. View this article in WRRO
- Methodological approaches for studying the microbial ecology of drinking water distribution systems. Water Research, 65, 134-156. View this article in WRRO
- Bacterial community dynamics during the early stages of biofilm formation in a chlorinated experimental drinking water distribution system: implications for drinking water discolouration.. J Appl Microbiol, 117(1), 286-301. View this article in WRRO
- The bacteriological composition of biomass recovered by flushing an operational drinking water distribution system.. Water Res, 54, 100-114. View this article in WRRO
- Online data processing for proactive UK water distribution network operation. Drinking Water Engineering and Science, 7(1), 23-33. View this article in WRRO
- Pattern matching and associative artificial neural networks for water distribution system time series data analysis. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 16(3), 617-632. View this article in WRRO
- Modeling and Field Work to Investigate the Relationship between Age and Quality of Tap Water. JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 140(9). View this article in WRRO
- Influence of hydraulic regimes on bacterial community structure and composition in an experimental drinking water distribution system. Water Research, 47(2), 503-516. View this article in WRRO
- Linking distribution system water quality issues to possible causes via hydraulic pathways. Environmental Modelling and Software, 40, 78-87. View this article in WRRO
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- A multiaxial notch fatigue methodology to estimate in-service lifetime of corroded cast iron water pipes. Key Engineering Materials, 577-578, 125-128. View this article in WRRO
- Single infrastructure utility provision to households: Technological feasibility study. Futures, 49, 35-48. View this article in WRRO
- Influence of ground conditions on intrusion flows through apertures in distribution pipes. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 139(10), 1052-1061. View this article in WRRO
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- Water quality event detection and customer complaint clustering analysis in distribution systems. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 12(5), 580-587. View this article in WRRO
- Onsite leak location in a pipe network by cepstrum analysis of pressure transients. Journal - American Water Works Association, 104(8), E457-E465.
- Integrated river flow modelling: A case study. Journal of Urban Water, 9(4), 259-276.
- How severe can transients be due to a sudden de-pressurization?. Journal of the American Water Works Association, 104(4), E243-E251.
- Field studies and modeling exploring mean and maximum water age association to water quality in a drinking water distribution network. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 138(6), 624-638. View this article in WRRO
- Bacterial water quality and network hydraulic characteristics: A field study of a small, looped water distribution system using culture-independent molecular methods. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 112(6), 1220-1234. View this article in WRRO
- Rethinking future of utilities: Supplying all services through one sustainable utility infrastructure. Environmental Science and Technology, 46(10), 5271-5272.
- Identifying sampling interval for event detection in water distribution networks. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 138(2), 187-191. View this article in WRRO
- Bulk flow resistance in vegetated channels: Analysis of momentum balance approaches based on data obtained in aging live vegetation. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 137(12), 1624-1635.
- Comparative study of instantaneous frequency based methods for leak detection in pipeline networks. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 29, 187-200. View this article in WRRO
- Determining longitudinal dispersion coefficients for submerged vegetated flow. Water Resources Research, 47(10).
- Instantaneous phase and frequency for the detection of leaks and features in a pipeline system. Structural Health Monitoring, 10(4), 351-360.
- Discoloration material accumulation in water distribution systems. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 2(4), 113-122.
- Novelty detection for time series data analysis in water distribution systems using support vector machines. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 13(4), 672-686.
- An artificial intelligence approach for optimizing pumping in sewer systems. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 13(3), 295-306.
- Asset deterioration and discolouration in water distribution systems. Water Research, 45(1), 113-124.
- Effects of emergent and submerged natural vegetation on longitudinal mixing in open channel flow. Water Resources Research, 46(4).
- MUWS (microbiology in urban water systems) - an interdisciplinary approach to study microbial communities in urban water systems. Drinking Water Engineering and Science, 3(2), 91-99.
- Development and verification of an online artificial intelligence system for detection of bursts and other abnormal flows. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 136(3), 309-318.
- Implementation of an on-line artificial intelligence district meter area flow meter data analysis system for abnormality detection: A case study. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 10(3), 437-444.
- Field testing of an optimal sensor placement methodology for event detection in an urban water distribution network. Urban Water Journal, 7(6), 345-356.
- A new coupon design for simultaneous analysis of in situ microbial biofilm formation and community structure in drinking water distribution systems. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 87(2), 749-756.
- The role of trunk mains in discolouration. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Water Management, 163(8), 397-406.
- Field studies of discoloration in water distribution systems: Model verification and practical implications. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 136(1), 86-94.
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- Improved representation of water age in distribution networks to inform water quality. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 135(5), 382-391.
- Laboratory studies investigating the processes leading to discolouration in water distribution networks. Water Research, 42(16), 4309-4318.
- Inquiry-based learning in civil engineering laboratory classes. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering, 161(3), 138-143.
- Estimation of burst rates in water distribution mains. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Water Management, 160(2), 73-82.
- Importance of advective zone in longitudinal mixing experiments. Acta Geophysica, 55(1), 95-103.
- Discolouration in potable water distribution systems: A review. Water Research, 41, 519-529.
- Leak location in a T-shaped pipe with CFD modelling. Key Engineering Materials, 347, 607-612.
- Three-dimensional numerical simulation of solute transport in a meandering self-formed river channel. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 45(5), 610-616.
- Longitudinal mixing in meandering channels: New experimental data set and verification of a predictive technique. Water Research, 41, 341-354.
- Modelling discolouration in a Melbourne (Australia) potable water distribution system. Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA, 55(3), 207-219.
- Modeling discoloration in potable water distribution systems. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 131(5), 716-725.
- Characterisation of materials causing discolouration in potable water systems. Water Science and Technology, 49(2), 27-32.
- Analysis and prediction of transverse mixing coefficients in natural channels. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 129(2), 129-139.
- Validation of a three-dimensional numerical code in the simulation of pseudo-natural meandering flows. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 129(10), 758-768.
- Changes in water quality parameters due to in-sewer processes. Water Science and Technology, 47(7-8), 343-350.
- Aggressive flushing for discolouration event mitigation in water distribution networks. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 3(1-2), 179-186.
- Analysis and Prediction of Transverse Mixing Coefficients in Natural Channels. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 129(2), 129-139.
- Locating outfalls on meandering channels to optimise transverse mixing. Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, 16(3), 194-198.
- Estimating transverse mixing coefficients. Water Management, 148(4), 263-275.
- Future Water: A Multi-University International Web Seminar. Water, 16(13), 1862-1862.
- A metric for drinking water service reservoir performance as a sink or source of material. AQUA — Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society.
- Algorithms to mimic human interpretation of turbidity events from drinking water distribution systems. Journal of Hydroinformatics.
- Forecasting bacteriological presence in treated drinking water using machine learning. Frontiers in Water, 5.
- Climate change and management of biofilms within drinking water distribution systems. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10.
- Impacts of temperature and hydraulic regime on discolouration and biofilm fouling in drinking water distribution systems. PLOS Water, 1(8), e0000033-e0000033. View this article in WRRO
- Integrating existing water and wastewater assets to reduce domestic heating emissions. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, 1-10.
- Assessing Ground Support of Plastic Pipes Using Ultrasound. Infrastructures, 6(2), 30-30.
Chapters
- Modelling Solute Transport Processes in Free Surface Flow CFD Schemes, Computational Fluid Dynamics (pp. 51-69). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- Leak Location in a T-Shaped Pipe with CFD Modelling, Damage Assessment of Structures VII (pp. 607-612). Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
Conference proceedings papers
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- Crowd-sourced Turbidity Event Scale for Proactive Management of Drinking Water Quality in Distribution Systems
- Current Practices, Gaps and Opportunities in Data Utilization in Water Utility Industry. 15th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 27 May 2024 - 30 May 2024.
- Assessing Mixing in Service Reservoirs to Protect Drinking Water Quality. 15th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 27 May 2024 - 30 May 2024.
- Identification and Localization of Background Leakage Using Customer Consumption Data. 15th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 27 May 2024 - 30 May 2024.
- Leak Detection Through Acoustic Signal Clustering with Gaussian Mixture Modelling. 15th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 27 May 2024 - 30 May 2024.
- Drinking Water Biofilm Management and Monitoring
- Residual-chlorine concentration impacts the ecology of biofilms in drinking water pipes and their water quality response
- Predicting turbidity in water distribution trunk mains using nonlinear autoregressive exogenous artificial neural networks. HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Vol. 3 (pp 1030-1039), 1 July 2018 - 6 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
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- Investigating a spatially constrained geostatistical technique for approximate leak/burst event location. FigShare CCWI2017 data repository
- WATER NETWORK CHARACTERISATION BASED ON MASS
BALANCE WITH REGARDS TO DISCOLOURATION RISK
USING HIGH FREQUENCY TURBIDITY MONITORING. FigShare CCWI2017 data repository
- Online advanced uncertain reasoning architecture with binomial
event discriminator system for novelty detection in smart water
networks. Figshare CCWI2017 data repository
- A Multivariate Geospatial Data-driven Approach to Descriptive Modelling of Burst Behaviour in a Small Island Context. FigShare CCWI 2017 data repository
- Robot mapping and localisation in metal water pipes using hydrophone induced vibration and map alignment by dynamic time warping. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 29 May 2017 - 3 June 2017. View this article in WRRO
- PipeSLAM: Simultaneous localisation and mapping in feature sparse water pipes using the Rao-Blackwellised particle filter. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 3 July 2017 - 7 July 2017. View this article in WRRO
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- Occurrence of Transients in Water Distribution Networks. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 119 (pp 1473-1482) View this article in WRRO
- Preface. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 119 (pp 1-3)
- Cloud Based Machine Learning Approaches for Leakage Assessment and Management in Smart Water Networks. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 119 (pp 43-52) View this article in WRRO
- Identifying Material Accumulation Processes in Drinking Water Distribution Systems with Extended Period EPANET MSX Turbidity Simulations. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 119 (pp 398-406)
- Traditional Leakage Models for Leakage Modelling: Effective or Not?. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 119 (pp 35-42)
- Interpreting and Estimating the Risk of Iron Failures. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 119 (pp 299-308) View this article in WRRO
- Non-Destructive In-Situ Condition Assessment of Plastic Pipe Using Ultrasound. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 119 (pp 148-157) View this article in WRRO
- Data driven analysis of customer flow meter data. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 119 (pp 834-843)
- Current Perspectives on Disinfectant Modelling. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 119 (pp 434-441)
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- Experimental quantification of intrusion due to transients in distribution systems. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 89 (pp 1306-1313). Bari, Italy, 14 July 2014 - 14 July 2014. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamic Leakage: Physical Study of the Leak Behaviour of Longitudinal Slits in MDPE Pipe. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 89 (pp 286-289)
- Controlled, Realistic-scale, Experimental Study of How the Quantity and Erodibility of Discolouration Material Varies with Shear Strength. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 89 (pp 135-142)
- Multivariate Data Mining for Estimating the Rate of Discoloration Material Accumulation in Drinking Water Systems. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 89 (pp 173-180)
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- Long term asset condition and discolouration modelling in water distribution systems with Epanet MSX. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries, Proceedings of the 2012 Congress (pp 3161-3170)
- Misleading velocity analysis for water quality management in transmission mains. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries, Proceedings of the 2012 Congress (pp 3178-3185)
- A review of potential culture independent biological detection methods for the water industry - challenges of moving beyond the research lab. Significance of Faecal Indicators in Water: A Global Perspective (pp 131-144)
- Intrusion modelling and the effect of ground water conditions. Water Distribution Systems Analysis 2010 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, WDSA 2010 (pp 585-594)
- Field Validation of "Optimal" Instrumentation Methodology for Burst/Leak Detection and Location. Water Distribution Systems Analysis 2010
- Field validation of "optimal" instrumentation methodology for burst/leak detection and location. 11th Annual International Symposium on Water Distribution Systems Analysis. Arizona, USA
- Pilot scale laboratory investigations into the impact of steady state conditioning hydraulics on potable water discolouration. 11th Annual International Symposium on Water Distribution Systems Analysis. Arizona, USA
- Online application of ANN and fuzzy logic system for burst detection. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference, WDSA 2008 (pp 735-746)
- Optimal location of pressure meters for burst detection. 10th Annual International Symposium on Water Distribution Systems Analysis. South Africa
- Water distribution system asset deterioration and impact on water quality - A case study. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'a - Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008, Vol. 316
- Project Neptune: Improved operation of water distribution systems. Proceedings: Water Distribution Systems Analysis. South Africa, 17 August 2008 - 20 August 2008.
- Red water and discoloration in a WDS: A numerical simulation. 8th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium 2006 (pp 152)
- Development of artificial intelligence systems for analysis of water supply system data. 8th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium 2006 (pp 91)
- Improving the representation of age of water in drinking water distribution networks to inform water quality. 8th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium 2006 (pp 135)
- Identification of discolouration risk through simplified modelling. ASCE ERWI World Water and Environmental Water Resources. Anchorage
- Investigating an alternative to exhumed grey cast iron water pipes for small-scale fatigue tests. Proceedings - 2nd International Join Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA)& Computing and Control in the Water Industry (CCWI), 18 July 2022 - 22 July 2022.
- Disinfection Residual Behaviour within Drinking Water Distribution Systems. Proceedings - 2nd International Join Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA)& Computing and Control in the Water Industry (CCWI), 18 July 2022 - 22 July 2022.
- Discovering Differences in Iron and Manganese Behaviour in Service Reservoirs. Proceedings - 2nd International Join Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA)& Computing and Control in the Water Industry (CCWI), 18 July 2022 - 22 July 2022.
- The impact of drinking water network model spatial and temporal scale on hydraulic metrics indicating discolouration risk. Proceedings - 2nd International Join Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA)& Computing and Control in the Water Industry (CCWI), 18 July 2022 - 22 July 2022.
- Optimal Sensor Placement and Leak/Burst Localisation in a Water Distribution System Using Spatially-Constrained Inverse-Distance Weighted Interpolation. HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics View this article in WRRO
- CCWI2017: F145 'A Multivariate Geospatial Data-driven Approach to Descriptive Modelling of Burst Behaviour in a Small Island Context'
- CCWI2017: F86 'DISCOLOURATION RISK MANAGEMENT AND CHLORINE WALL DECAY'
- CCWI2017: F11 'Can a Valve Closure Transient Cause Mobilisation of Adhered Particles?'
- CCWI2017: F149 'WATER NETWORK CHARACTERISATION BASED ON MASS BALANCE WITH REGARDS TO DISCOLOURATION RISK USING HIGH FREQUENCY TURBIDITY MONITORING'
- CCWI2017: F115 'Online advanced uncertain reasoning architecture with binomial event discriminator system for novelty detection in smart water networks'
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Reports
Posters
Theses / Dissertations
- Research group
- Grants
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Past Grants
The role of biofilms has been identified as a critical component in material layer development on the pipe walls of distribution networks.
The EPSRC-funded Grand Challenge Centre for Water, comprising 6 UK universities and 100+ industrial partners working in collaboration to develop the sustainable water solutions of the future and to accelerate innovation uptake across the water sector.
This research is developing a fundamental understanding of the microbial ecology of intermittently operated water distribution systems to inform operational or construction risk reduction strategies.
EPSRC Water Grand Challenge consortium that is undertake exciting and ambitious scientific and engineering research to develop the complex sociotechnical solutions needed to address key challenges facing the water sector up to 2065.
- PhD opportunities
I am always keen to hear from enthusiastic talented individuals interested in various research aspects of quantity, quality and asset management for water distribution systems infrastructure. Specific funded PhD opportunities with me will be advertised on jobs.ac.uk and findaphd.com, please keep an eye on or sign up for alerts on these sites.