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Innovyze Surge Product Line Revs Up Modeling Performance, Breaks Speed Barrier 
for Analyzing All-Pipe Water Networks 

Latest Software Release Supports Faster Time to Design and Lower Analysis Costs

Broomfield, Colorado USA, June 28, 2011 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, today announced the newest release of its industry-leading Surge product line. Innovyze Surge products give users the power to optimize water supply and distribution systems operation and management — reducing the time and cost needed to foster design innovations, improve system reliability and performance, and protect public health. The advanced technology and performance innovation behind the breakthrough release brings a new level of software and computational power to the simulation of large and complex all-pipe water distribution network models. The program’s demonstrated 10 to 20 times faster simulation speed allows users to analyze models with greater than 10,000 pipes in just a few seconds.

Available for InfoSurge, H2OSURGE, and H2OMAP Surge, the release is ideal for comprehensive water quality applications that require simulation of very large network models under a wide range of hydraulic transient conditions, from routine operation to emergency states. It gives users unprecedented power to establish proper system-wide coverage, asses their susceptibility to low or negative pressures, estimate potential intrusion volumes and risks to public health, control pressure surges, and minimize the impact of pressure transients should they occur, with a high degree of confidence in the ultimate results. The enhanced suite reflects Innovyze’s vanguard position in the water industry and its continuing commitment to delivering pioneering technology for enhancing the safety and reliability of the world’s water supply.

Anticipating and controlling transient response is critical to ensuring the protection, integrity, and effective/efficient operation of water distribution systems. Transient responses can introduce pressures of sufficient magnitude (upsurge) to burst pipes and damage equipment. The resulting repercussions can include extended service outages and loss of property and life. Transient responses can also produce sub-atmospheric pressures (downsurge) that can force contaminated groundwater into the distribution system at a leaky joint, crack or break, leading to grave health consequences when carried out downstream in the pipe system. Sustained sub-atmospheric pressures may also lead to cavitation and water column separation, resulting in severe “water hammer” effects as the vapor cavity collapses.

To yield reliable results and impact engineering decisions, a hydraulic transient simulation must be sufficiently detailed. An increase in detail can have a corresponding increase on the turnaround time for computation; but engineers need detailed transient flow modeling capabilities that don’t increase time to design or exceed budgets. The Innovyze transient flow simulation technology suite addresses every facet of pressure surge analysis and its role in utility infrastructure management and protection while delivering optimum solution efficiency and accuracy. It provides the engineer-friendly simulation framework water utilities need to identify characteristics that can make their water supply and distribution systems more susceptible to transient pressure events. Users can quickly and efficiently assess the effects of power outages, pump shutdowns, startups and speed changes, valve closures, rapid demand changes, and the efficacy of any combination of surge protection devices. The product suite also accurately simulates cavitation and water column separation and evaluates their intensity. Its blazing simulation speed makes transient analysis an easier and more enjoyable task.

Armed with these mission-critical network modeling capabilities, water utilities can more accurately assess their susceptibility to low or negative pressures caused by transient surges, identify vulnerable areas and risks, reduce leaks, avoid breaks, evaluate and design sound control and mitigation measures, improve water quality, and determine improved operational plans and security upgrades.