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Session 3b: WaterSuccessful Horizon 2020 Project:
CENTAUR
Will Shepherd
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Overview
• Context in relation to the call• Project details• Project Team• Innovation
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 641931
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H2020 Call
• WORK PROGRAMME 2014 – 2015
• 12. Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials
• WATER-1-2014/2015: Bridging the gap: from innovative water solutions to marketreplication
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Call details
• Aims to ‘… accelerate the commercialisation of eco-innovative water solutions …’
• Linked to EIP (European Innovation Partnerships) on Water priority areas.– Priority area for the project: ‘Flood and drought risk
management’• ‘…exploiting untapped potential of ICT by developing
and deploying advanced ICT solutions for water resources management in agriculture and urban areas.’
• Innovation action.
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CENTAUR
• Aims to reduce urban flood risk – ‘Climate and Environment’
• Uses innovative solutions applying ‘untapped ICT potential’; optimises use of existing infrastructure – ‘resource efficiency’
• Team includes 3 Universities / Research Institutes, 2 SMEs and 2 Water Companies
• Full scale pilot studies accelerate commercialisation
• Builds on existing technologies
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Project Concept
• CENTAUR (Cost Effective Neural Technique for Alleviation of Urban Flood Risk)– To integrate, local sensor networks with a data driven
control approach and a bespoke flow control device to adjust spatial distribution and so mitigate local flood risk
• Existing RTC schemes– System wide approach (flood risk, but often to control
water quality impacts)– Predictive modelling approaches – calibrated network
hydrodynamic model (forecasting, control and monitoring)
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Concept of CENTAUR• Adjust the balance of flood risk upstream and
downstream of known flood locations• Data driven – local sensor network (training and
control) – reconfiguration possible• Installation in existing infrastructure
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Initial proof of concept
• Not optimised
• Can address current local flooding, also potential to deal with future flood risk
Rainfall event return period
(years)
Existing Flood Volume
(m3)
Residual Flooding (m3) – after installation of active
control
Captured flood volume with
simulated CENTAUR device [%]
0.5 17.5 0.0 1001 45.2 0.0 1002 95.1 0.0 1005 213.4 0.0 100
10 356.4 48.1 8720 559.2 264.7 5330 710.9 424.8 40
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Detailed concept
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Laboratory testing• 40 m long test facility• 200 mm diameter pipes• 4 x 1 m diameter, 1.5 m high
manholes• Flows up to 50 l/s• Installed flow control device• Downstream valve to
alter flood risk
MH1
MH2
MH3
MH4 Level Monitors and transmitters
Repeaters andController
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Pilot testingCoimbra, Portugal
Local Partners
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Flooding in Coimbra• 9 June 2006:• Return period = 50 years
• 25 October 2006• Return period = 20 – 50 years
• 21 September 2008• Return period = 5 years
• 24 December 2013• Return period = 5 years
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Available capacity
• Lighter colours = pipes with spare capacity
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Project team
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TimelineYear 1
WP1 – Develop monitoring and control
hardware
WP2 – Develop Control software and
model of pilot catchment
Year 2
Year 3
WP3 – Demonstration and Implementation
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Innovation and Commercial Exploitation
• SMEs EMS and Steinhardt aim to market the final device
• Other partners benefit by publishing results and from exploitation agreement.
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Summary
• Developed project clearly met the requirements of the call
• Ambitious but realistic programme
• Team has a history of collaboration
• Clear role for each project partner