Professor Joby Boxall FREng (he/him)
PhD
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Professor of Water Infrastructure Engineering
j.b.boxall@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5760
+44 114 222 5760
Room E104a, Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
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Professor Joby Boxall FREng
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Room E104a
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Department of Civil and Structural 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.
Water contamination research 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
- Integrating Water Systems: Proceedings of Computer and Control in the Water Industry 2009. CRC Press.
Journal articles
- 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.
- Influence of Service Reservoir Construction Age on the Likelihood of Bacteriological Failure Occurrence. Institute of Water Journal(8), 22-25.
- Future Inspection and Deterioration Prediction Capabilities for Buried Distributed Water Infrastructure. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 13(3).
- The application of artificial intelligence techniques to better manage iron in drinking water distribution systems. Institute of Water Journal(7), 28-34.
- 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
- Autonomous robotics for water and sewer networks. HydroLink.
- 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
- Experimental quantification of intrusion volumes due to transients in drinking water distribution systems. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 10(1). 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
- 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
- Aggregation and biofilm formation of bacteria isolated from domestic drinking water. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 13(4), 1016-1023. View this article in WRRO
- 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
- Modelling both the continual erosion and regeneration of discolouration material in drinking water distribution systems. New Developments in IT & Water. View this article in WRRO
- Development and field validation of a burst localisation methodology. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 139(6), 604-613. View this article in WRRO
- 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.
- Leak detection in pipes using induced water hammer pulses and cepstrum analysis. International Journal of COMADEM, 13(1), 19-25.
- Field studies of discoloration in water distribution systems: Model verification and practical implications. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 136(1), 86-94.
- Online modelling of water distribution systems: A UK case study. Drinking Water Engineering and Science Discussions, 2(2), 279-294. View this article in WRRO
- 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.
- Modeling for hydraulic capacity. Journal of the American Water Works Association, 96(4), 161-169.
- 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.
- Transverse mixing in sinuous natural open channel flows. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 41(2), 758-768.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cloud based artificial intelligence analytics to assess combined sewer overflow performance. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
- 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
- Fundamentals of internal corrosion and metal release In Giani R (Ed.), M58--internal Corrosion Control in Water Distribution Systems American Water Works Association
- Chapter 8: Field data In Wu Z (Ed.), Water Loss (pp. 147-167). Bentley Systems
- Chapter 8: Operation, maintenance and performance In Savic & Banyard (Ed.), Water Distribution Systems (pp. 193-226). ICE
- Chapter 9: Online monitoring and detection In Wu Z (Ed.), Water Loss (pp. 147-167). Bentley Systems
- Chapter 3: Modelling solute transport processes in free surface flow CFD schemes In Bates PD, Lane SN & Ferguson RI (Ed.), Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Environmental Hydraulics (pp. 51-70). John Wiley & Sons
- 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
- Optimal placement of sensors for network calibration using pressure dependent modelling. 11th IWA Symposium on Modelling and Integrated Assessment, 24 September 2023 - 27 September 2023.
- Moving sensor deployment for network-wide pipe roughness calibration. 11th IWA Symposium on Modelling and Integrated Assessment, 24 September 2023 - 27 September 2023.
- A Vision for Pervasive Autonomous Inspection of Buried Pipe Infrastructure. 38th International Conference on Trenchless Technologies, No-Dig 2022, 3 October 2022 - 5 October 2022.
- Predicting Iron Exceedance Risk in Drinking Water Distribution Systems Using Machine Learning. 14th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 4 July 2022 - 8 July 2022.
- Determining the spatio-temporal relationship between water quality monitors in drinking water distribution systems. 14th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 4 July 2022 - 8 July 2022.
- A data-driven model for the prediction of chlorine losses in water distribution trunk mains. 14th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 4 July 2022 - 8 July 2022.
- A machine learning application on water quality datasets for understanding the factors of bacteriological failures on service reservoirs. Proceedings of the IWA-Aspire Conference. Hong Kong, 31 October 2019 - 2 November 2019.
- The operational value of inlet monitoring at service reservoirs. Proceedings of the 17th International Computing and Control for the Water Industry Conference, 1 September 2019 - 4 September 2019.
- Investigating drinking water behaviour treated by different disinfection with the use of a machine learning technique on water quality datasets. datasets’ Proceedings of the 17th International Computing and Control for the Water Industry Conference, 1 September 2019 - 4 September 2019.
- Discolouration modelling. Proceedings of the 17th International Computing and Control for the Water Industry Conference, 1 September 2019 - 4 September 2019.
- 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
- Development of Assimable Organic Carbon Assey and Field Application within Drinking Water Treatment. WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference 2018, 23 July 2018 - 25 July 2018.
- Understanding Material Accumulation and Discolouration Risk in Distribution Networks. Vol 1 (2018): WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference 2018. https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/wdsa-ccw/article/view/12018
- The Impact of Chlorine Concentration on the Discolouration Response of Biofilms in Drinking Water Distribution Systems. Vol 1 (2018): WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference 2018. https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/wdsa-ccw/article/view/12123
- Transient Mobilisation of Replicated Biofilms. WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference 2018, 23 July 2018 - 25 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Seasonal Temperature and Turbidity Behaviour in Trunk Mains. Vol 1 (2018): WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference 2018
- 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
- Can a valve closure transient cause mobilisation of adhered particles?. CCWI 2017 - 15th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry
- Discolouration risk management and chlorine wall decay. CCWI 2017 - 15th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry
- 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
- Clustering and Classification of Aggregated Smart Meter Data to Detter Understand how Demand Patterns Relate to Customer Type. 14th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, 7 November 2016 - 9 November 2016.
- Flow-Pressure Sensor Placement Optimisation for Leak Detection in an Urban Distribution Water Network. 14th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, 7 November 2016 - 9 November 2016.
- Pressure from customer boundary box: new data to inform system management. 14th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, 7 November 2016 - 9 November 2016.
- Approximating the Location of Leaks and Bursts within a District Metered Area using Statistical Process Control and Geostatistics. 14th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, 7 November 2016 - 9 November 2016.
- Soil Saturation Detection from in Pipe Ultrasound Measurements. 19th World Conference on Non Destructive Testing
- Robotic Mapping and Localisation in Feature Sparse Water Pipes. 19th World Conference on Non Destructive Testing, 13 March 2017 - 17 March 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Do transients contribute to turbidity failures of water distribution systems?. BHR Group - 12th International Conference on Pressure Surges (pp 297-308)
- A method to characterise transients from pressure signals recorded in real water distribution networks. BHR Group - 12th International Conference on Pressure Surges (pp 609-623) View this article in WRRO
- 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)
- Case-Based Reasoning Approach For Managing Water Quality Incidents In Distribution Systems. http://www.hic2014.org/proceedings/. USA, 17 August 2014 - 21 August 2014. View this article in WRRO
- Self-Organizing Maps For Knowledge Discovery From Corporate Databases To Develop Risk Based Prioritization For Stagnation . http://www.hic2014.org/proceedings/(http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1478). New York, USA, 17 August 2014 - 21 August 2014. View this article in WRRO
- Application Of Artificial Neural Networks To Assess CSO Performance. 13th International Conference on Urban Drainage. Sarawak, Malaysia, 7 September 2014 - 12 September 2014.
- 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)
- Experimental Quantification of Intrusion Due to Transients in Distribution Systems. Procedia Engineering, Vol. 89 (pp 1306-1313)
- Potable water pipe-wall biofilm bacterial community response to conditioning shear stress and a hydraulic disturbance in a full-scale pipe loop facility. 5th International Conference Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Development and evaluation of a novel LED based fluorescence device for real time in-situ potable water quality assessment. NOM 2013 - IWA Natural Organic Matter Specialist Conference, Perth, Australia. Perth, Australia
- Transient source localisation methodology and laboratory validation. 12th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, Perugia, Italy. Perugia, Italy
- Modelling and flow conditioning to manage discolouration in trunk mains. 12th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, Perugia, Italy. Perugia, Italy View this article in WRRO
- Playing in the sewers? A preliminary survey of non-structural strategies for sewer network load control. 7th International Conference on Sewer Processes & Networks. Sheffield,UK
- Experimental proof of contaminant ingress into a leaking pipe during a transient event. 12th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry. Perugia, Italy
- Transient behavior in complex distribution network: A case study. 12th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry. Perugia, Italy
- Bacterial diversity of biofilms in UK drinking water networks: Implications for water quality. 3rd European Congress on Microbial Biofilms, FEMS. Gehnt, Netherlands
- Impact of hydraulic events on organic and inorganic material in distribution systems. The Water Quality Technology Conference, AWWA. Long Beach, California
- Real time condition monitoring and early warning of failure of potable water using novel fluorescence spectroscopy instrumentation. Sensing in Water 2013 - SWIG. Nottingham UK
- The model is not the system: Path-dependent scenarios, post-normal engineering and the super-wicked problems of infrastructure. IWA Young Water Professionals. Teeside, UK
- Quantification of 16S rRNA and Escherichia coli functional genes in a water distribution system (WDS). Society of General Microbiology. Dublin, Ireland
- Contaminant ingress and transient monitoring. 5th Annual Water Networks, Potable Treatment and Supply Conference. Cranfield, UK
- Pyrosequencing analysis of bacterial community structure in an experimental drinking water distribution system. 14th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. Copenhagen, Denmark
- Characterising the physical structure and microbial community structure of drinking water biofilms. 14th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. Copenhagen, Denmark
- Time dependent area of leaks in MDPE pipes during transient events. BHR Group - 11th International Conferences on Pressure Surges (pp 113-125)
- Onset detection of transient waves using a novel experimental data set. BHR Group - 11th International Conferences on Pressure Surges (pp 707-720)
- Trapping pressure surges using two valves and feedforward control. BHR Group - 11th International Conferences on Pressure Surges (pp 721-732)
- Analysis of multi-parameter water quality data using event detection software on laboratory simulated events. 14th Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference 2012, WDSA 2012, Vol. 2 (pp 1018-1033)
- Intrusion and leakage through cracks and slits in plastic (MDPE) pipes. 14th Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference 2012, WDSA 2012, Vol. 2 (pp 807-815)
- Transforming critical infrastructure: Matching the complexity of the environment to policy. European Conference on Complex Systems. Brussels, Belgium, 3 September 2012 - 7 September 2012.
- Aggregation and biofilm formation of bacteria isolated from domestic drinking water. Proceedings of IWA World Water Congress. Busan, Korea, 16 September 2012 - 21 September 2012.
- The structure and stability of drinking water biofilms. 14th Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference 2012, WDSA 2012, Vol. 1 (pp 455-467)
- A bio-hydroinformatics application of self-organizing map neural networks for assessing microbial and physico-chemical water quality in distribution systems. Proceedings of the 10th HydroInformatics conference. Hamburg, Germany, July 2012.
- Field validation of an artificial intelligence based sewer pump control system. 9th International joint IWA/IAHR conference on Urban Drainage Modelling. Belgrade, Serbia, 3 September 2012 - 7 September 2012.
- 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)
- Discolouration risk management for trunk mains. Water Distribution Systems Analysis 2010 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, WDSA 2010 (pp 535-542)
- 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
- Biofilm bacterial community response to an experimental discolouration event in a pilot-scale water distribution system. 4th Congress of European Microbiologists FEMS. Geneva, Switzerland
- Molecular analysis of bacterial biofilm communities in response to environmental perturbations within drinking water distribution systems. 4th International Conference on Environmental Industrial and Applied Microbiology. Malaga, Spain
- Energy and utilities infrastructure: Can all be in one?. Energy and People: Futures, Complexity and Challenges Conference. Oxford
- A data-driven methodology for determining the cause of discolouration in distribution networks. 11th Computing and Control in the Water Industry 2011. Exeter
- Biological detection methods - challenges of moving beyond the research lab. The Significance of Faecal Indicators in Water: A Global Perspective (pp 131-144). Edinburgh, 6 June 2011 - 8 June 2011.
- Contamination ingress into water distribution systems (CID): Measuring intrusion volumes in water distribution systems. 4th Developments in Water Treatment and Supply Conference. Cheltenham
- Managing trunk main discolouration by managing flow. 4th Developments in Water Treatment and Supply Conference. Cheltenham
- Intrusion into water distribution systems through leaks and orifices: Initial experimental results. 11th Computing and Control in the Water Industry 2011. Exeter
- Visualising and quantifying the matrix of drinking water biofilms. IWA Biofilm Conference 2011: Processes in Biofilms. Shanghai, China
- Aggregation and biofilm formation of bacteria isolated from domestic drinking water. IWA Biofilm Conference 2011: Processes in Biofilms. Shanghai, China
- Operational control of sewer pumping stations to minimise energy costs considering efficiency. 11th Computing and Control in the Water Industry 2011. Exeter
- Trunk main discolouration trials and strategic planning. 11th Computing and Control in the Water Industry 2011. Exeter
- GIS thematic mapping to identify persistent failures in water distribution networks. 11th Computing and Control in the Water Industry 2011. Exeter
- Field validation of "optimal" instrumentation methodology for burst/leak detection and location. 11th Annual International Symposium on Water Distribution Systems Analysis. Arizona, USA
- Intergeneric Co aggregation of drinking water bacterial isolates. IChemE Biochemical Engineering Subject Group (BESG) Young Researchers Meeting. Cambridge, UK
- Biological and biophysical properties of biofilm forming drinking water bacteria. ASM Biofilms 4 International Conference. Winchester, UK
- Investigating bacterial community response during discolouration events in an experimental water distribution system. 13th International Symposium for Microbial Ecology. Seattle, USA
- Discolouration in water supply: The role of metals. COST Action 637 METEAU 4th International Conference on Metals and Related Substances in Drinking Water. Kristianstad, Sweden, 13 October 2010 - 15 October 2010.
- An evaluation of three lumped conceptual rainfall-runoff models at catchment scale. British Hydrological Society 3rd International Symposium, Role of Hydrology in Managing Consequences of a Changing Global Environment. Newcastle, UK
- Field testing of optimal sensor placement and data analysis methodologies for burst detection and location in an urban water network. 9th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, HIC 2010. Tianjin, China
- Leakage detection in pipelines using ensemble empirical mode decomposition. Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop - Structural Health Monitoring 2010 (pp 203-208)
- 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
- Rivelin trunk main flow test. Integrating Water Systems (pp 431-434). Sheffield
- Microbiology in drinking water distribution systems. IChemE Biochemical Engineering Subject Group (BESG) Young Researchers Meeting. Sheffield,UK
- Community profiling of bacteria in sewer biofilms. IWA Specialist Conference on 'Processes in Biofilms: Fundamentals to Applications'. Davis, California, USA
- The use of pressure transients to detect leaks in distribution systems. 3rd Biennial Conference of the UK Network on Potable Water Treatment & Supply. Buxton, UK
- Long term trunk main monitoring yields operational dividends. 3rd Developments in Water Treatment and Supply Conference. Buxton, UK, 1 June 2009 - 2 June 2009.
- Leak detection in a pipeline by cepstrum analysis of a pressure transient. IV ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART 09). Porto, Portugal
- Contaminant ingress into distribution systems. 3rd Biennial Conference of the UK Network on Potable Water Treatment & Supply. Buxton, UK
- 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
- Microbiology of urban water systems: An interdisciplinary approach. Marie Curie Workshop as part of the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). Barcelona, Spain
- How clean is your drinking water?. Society for General Microbiology Annual Meeting. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Quantifying the performance of storm tanks. Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage. Edinburgh, Scotland
- Implications for treatment processes and networks following water saving initiatives. 2nd European Water and Wastewater Conference. Birmingham
- Leak and feature detection in a water distribution network. BHR Group - Surge Analysis - System Design, Simulation, Monitoring and Control, 10th International Conference on Pressure Surges (pp 125-135)
- 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.
- Quantifying the performance of storm tanks at wastewater treatment works. Restoring Our Natural Habitat - Proceedings of the 2007 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress
- Providing dynamic water distribution network information to field engineers. Developments in Water Treatment and Supply Conference. Bath, UK
- Repeat DMA flushing operations: Discolouration comparison, modelling and management. Developments in Water Treatment and Supply Conference. Bath, UK
- Managing discolouration risk due to valve movements. Developments in Water Treatment and Supply Conference. Bath, UK
- An artificial neural network/fuzzy logic system for DMA flow meter data analysis providing burst identification and size estimation. Proceedings of the Combined International Conference of Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI2007 and Sustainable Urban Water Management, SUWM2007 (pp 313-320)
- 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)
- Inquiry based, directed-study hydraulic laboratories. LTEA Conference. Manchester, UK, June 2006.
- Development of a holistic approach to river modelling in the Bradford catchment (UK). Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering (ICHE-2006). Philadelphia, USA
- Modular sewer quality simulation. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Urban Drainage (CD) (pp 21-26)
- Material accumulation and mobilisation in a pipe loop system. Developments in Water Treatment and Supply. York
- Pipe level estimation of burst rates in water distribution mains. 8th Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI) Water Management for the 21st Century. Exeter
- Structural integrity and water quality in water distribution networks. 8th Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI) Water Management for the 21st Century. Exeter
- Identification of discolouration risk through simplified modelling. ASCE ERWI World Water and Environmental Water Resources. Anchorage
- Comparison of maintenance and rehabilitation strategies for discolouration risk control in water distribution systems. IWA World Water Congress. Marakesh
- Longitudinal dispersion in an extreme meander channel, with changes in shape. River Flow 2004 - 2nd International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics. Naples
- Regeneration of discolouration in distribution systems. ASCE, EWRI, World Water and Environmental Resources Conference. Philadelphia
- Three-dimensional numerical simulation of longitudinal dispersion in a meandering channel. XXX IAHR Congress. Thessaloniki
- Transverse mixing in natural open channels. XXX IAHR Congress. Thessaloniki
- Assessing transient storage effects in a natural formed meandering channel. XXX IAHR Congress. Thessaloniki
- Water quality in distribution systems: Rehabilitation and maintenance strategies. CCWI Advances in Water Supply Management. London
- Data mining and relationship analysis of water distribution system databases for improved understanding of operations performance. CCWI Advances in Water Supply Management. London
- A novel approach to describing sediment movement in distribution mains, based on measured particle characteristics. Water Software Systems (pp 263-273). Leicester
- Longitudinal dispersion in a natural formed meandering channel. Conference Proceedings of the 28th IAHR Congress. Graz, Austria, 22 August 1999 - 27 August 1999.
- The use of laser measurement techniques in an investigation of the mechanics of solute entrainment in dead zones. Proceedings of Flow Modelling and Turbulence Measurements, ISFTM. Tainan, Taiwan, 5 October 1998 - 8 October 1998.
- 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'
- Robot mapping and localisation in metal water pipes using hydraphone induced vibration and map alignment by dynamic time warping. Proceedings of ICRA2017 View this article in WRRO
- The impact of hydraulic conditions upon drinking water distribution system biofilms. biofilms’ IWA Specialist Conference Biofilms in Drinking Water systems from treatment to tap. Arosa, Switzerland, 23 August 2015 - 26 August 2015.
- Biofilms and Discolouration Material Accumulation Processes in Drinking Water Distribution Systems and Modelling the Hydraulic. IWA Specialist Conference Biofilms in Drinking Water systems from treatment to tap. Arosa, Switzerland, 23 August 2015 - 26 August 2015.
Reports
- Drinking Water Quality Big Question: How Can We Achieve 100% Compliance with Drinking Water Standards at Point of Use by 2050?
Posters
- Autonomous fuzzy logic control of pumping in sewer systems. 11th IWA conference on instrumentation control and automation.
- Investigating Bacterial Community Respone During Discolouration Events in an Experimental Water Distribution System. 13th International Symposium for Microbial Biology, Seattle, USA.
Theses / Dissertations
- Modelling both the continual accumulation and erosion of discolouration material in drinking water distribution systems. University of Sheffield.
- 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.