Abstract / Brief Description

Around forty-five percentage of the pipelines installed in Hong Kong are more than 30 years of age ( with 15% more than 50 years of age), leading to creating vexing problems for the drainage infrastructure in Hong Kong. To solve this intricate challenge, Prof Tarek proposes a smart/sustainable pipeline management system through developing a novel smart automated tool. This research project is the first attempt per se towards collecting, recording, and analyzing data related to sewers. The proposed smart system is intended to automatically generate condition of sewers, once new information has been added to the related database. Through collaboration closely with industrial experts and the concerned governmental departments, the expected outcomes are anticipated not only to have significant impact on the drainage network in Hong, but also worldwide.

Hong Kong Drainage Network

Hong Kong has 4565 km divided for sewers(39%) and storm water drains(51%).

About 45% and 15% pipelines are more than 30 years and 50 years of age respectively 

Inspection and habitation activities have high consequence of failure in Hong Kong

Condition/deterioration models are essential to predict the failure causing overflow in the system