TY - JFULL AU - R. Rajabpour and N. Talebbeydokhti and M. H. Ahmadi PY - 2015/10/ TI - Developing New Algorithm and Its Application on Optimal Control of Pumps in Water Distribution Network T2 - International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering SP - 1237 EP - 1241 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10002572 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 105, 2015 N2 - In recent years, new techniques for solving complex problems in engineering are proposed. One of these techniques is JPSO algorithm. With innovative changes in the nature of the jump algorithm JPSO, it is possible to construct a graph-based solution with a new algorithm called G-JPSO. In this paper, a new algorithm to solve the optimal control problem Fletcher-Powell and optimal control of pumps in water distribution network was evaluated. Optimal control of pumps comprise of optimum timetable operation (status on and off) for each of the pumps at the desired time interval. Maximum number of status on and off for each pumps imposed to the objective function as another constraint. To determine the optimal operation of pumps, a model-based optimization-simulation algorithm was developed based on G-JPSO and JPSO algorithms. The proposed algorithm results were compared well with the ant colony algorithm, genetic and JPSO results. This shows the robustness of proposed algorithm in finding near optimum solutions with reasonable computational cost. ER -