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OpenFlows SewerGEMS ™ ®

Urban Sanitary and Combined Sewer Modeling

OpenFlows SewerGEMS enables you to produce optimal urban

sewer planning and overflow remediation analysis designs
in an easy-to-use environment. You can design and operate
sanitary or combined conveyance sewer systems by using built-in
hydraulic and hydrology capabilities with a variety of wet-weather
calibration methods. OpenFlows SewerGEMS takes advantage
of Bentley CONNECTservices by associating a hydraulic model
with a CONNECT project. CONNECTservices allows your team
members to easily access the model.
OpenFlows SewerGEMS can be used from within OpenRoads, OpenSite,
Superior Interoperability OpenRail Designer, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, or as a stand-alone application.
With OpenFlows SewerGEMS, utilities and consultants can model from within
several platforms while accessing a single, shared project data source. rainfall distributions or user-defined rainfall events. Runoff flows are modeled
These platforms include: and calibrated using a choice of hydrograph methods, including RTK, SCS,
Modified Rational, EPA-SWMM, or user-defined generic unit hydrographs.
• Windows for ease of use, accessibility, and performance.
You can also load the model based on property connections.
• ArcGIS for GIS integration, thematic mapping, and publishing.
• AutoCAD for engineering design environments. Easy Model Management with Scenarios
• OpenRoads™, OpenSite®, and OpenRail™ Designer for a comprehensive, OpenFlows SewerGEMS’ Scenario Management Center provides you with the
3D-modeling solution. ability to configure, evaluate, visualize, and compare an unlimited number of
scenarios within a single file. The feature helps you evaluate strategies for
Modeling teams can leverage the skills of engineers from different departments,
design, operations, sanitary loading, and network topology to improve your
and engineers can flatten learning curves by choosing the environment they
decision-making.
already know and provide results that can be visualized on multiple platforms.
Streamlined Model Building Advanced Analysis
OpenFlows SewerGEMS can model the effect that low-impact development controls
You can leverage geospatial data, CAD drawings, SCADA data, databases,
and spreadsheets to jump-start the model building process. OpenFlows have in retaining runoff before it enters the sewer system. The application enables
SewerGEMS provides synchronized database connections, geospatial links, you to model hydrogen sulfide formation to decrease the risk of pipe damage from
and advanced model-building modules that connect with virtually any digital H2S formation, reduce foul odors, and improve worker safety.
data format. The application also provides drawing and connectivity review Multiple Solvers
capabilities to guarantee a hydraulically coherent model. Depending on the type of system analyzed, OpenFlows SewerGEMS can easily
Wastewater and Stormwater Loading Allocation and Estimation switch among multiple solvers.
The LoadBuilder module helps you allocate sewer loads based on a variety of GIS- • To solve the Saint Venant equations, users can choose between OpenFlows
based sources such as water usage billing data, area-wide flow measurement, SewerGEMS’ explicit EPA solver based on SWMM and the implicit dynamic
or polygons with known population or land use. Sewer loading can also be applied wave engine. These two dynamic engines account for storage effects within
as user-defined hydrographs, pattern-based loads, and unit loads. The software’s structures and quantify overflows should they occur.
features enable you to access and customize the comprehensive unit (dry weather) • The convex/gradually varied flow solver uses convex routing to determine
load engineering library with numerous typical unit loads based on population, gravity sewer flows and gradually varied flow (backwater analysis)
area, count, and discharge. Additionally, OpenFlows SewerGEMS allows you to to determine hydraulic properties once the flow is known.
input and save an unlimited number of flow patterns to accurately model flow • With the rational/gradually varied flow solver, peak flows in the storm sewer
changes over the course of a day. You can also load models with wet weather system are calculated using the rational method. Use this solver to analyze
runoff flows derived from precipitation using OpenFlows SewerGEMS’ built-in peak flow conditions, or to automatically design storm sewers.
System Requirements OpenFlows SewerGEMS At-A-Glance
Platform Requirements
OpenFlows SewerGEMS runs
Interface and Graphical Editing • Automatic constraint-based design of gravity systems
without platform restrictions • Includes stand-alone Windows interface • V-shaped and parabolic gutters
as a stand-alone application. • Runs within ArcGIS (with ArcMap license) • Culvert headwalls with SWMM and HDS-5 culvert support
• Runs within OpenRoads Designer, OpenSite, • Control structures (weirs, orifices, depth-flow curve)
It also runs from within ArcGIS,
AutoCAD, OpenRoads, OpenRail Designer (with Civil license) • Air valves for high points in force mains
OpenSite, and OpenRail Designer. • Runs within AutoCAD (with AutoCAD license) • SCADA signal element
See: Platform Compatibility • Dynamic elevation updates from terrain models • Low-impact development controls
Processor • Ribbon interface • Ability to model individual property connections,
As per minimum operating • Unlimited undo and redo taps, and laterals
system requirements • Element morph, split, and reconnect • Evaporation definition
Memory • Merge nodes in close proximity tool • Aquifer simulation
8 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended • Automatic element labeling • Pollution analysis with optional definition of land use
Operating System • Element prototypes categories and surface characteristics
Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 10 • Multiple background file layer support • Hydrogen sulfide formation
x 64, Windows 8, Windows 8 x 64 • Bing Maps, image file, CAD, and GIS backgrounds • Rule-based controls
Windows 7, Windows 7 x 64 • Tractive stress calculation
Interoperability and Model Building
Note: Windows 7 operating system • HEC-22 inlet capacity and node headloss calculations
is supported only with its service • Automated catchment delineation
• Variable-speed pumps
pack (SPI) installed • Automatic elevation assignment and update
using terrain model • Totalizing flow meters
• Automatic sanitary load allocation from geospatial Results Presentation
Find out about Bentley data (for example, land use), flow monitors and/or • ArcMap visualization
property connections
at: www.bentley.com • Thematic mapping
• Seed files for new model templates • Dynamic, multiparameter, and multiscenario graphing
Contact Bentley • Model building and synchronization with Shapefiles,
1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) • Dynamic profiling
Geodatabases, Geometric Networks, SDE, spreadsheets,
Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 • Advanced tabular reporting with FlexTables
databases, and ODBC connections
• Property-based color coding, symbology, and annotation
Global Office Listings • Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial data connection
www.bentley.com/contact • Publish iModels in 2D or 3D, including to
• Creation of model elements from CAD drawings
• GIS-ID property to associate model and GIS elements Bentley Map® Mobile
• SCADAConnect for live system data connections • Engineering profile annotation tables
• Custom reports
• Unified file format with OpenFlows SewerCAD®,
• Animation AVI creation
OpenFlows CivilStorm®, and OpenFlows StormCAD®
• Gutter cross section viewer
• Import/export of InRoads® Storm and Sanitary files
• Import of MX Drainage files Model Management
• Tracking of model changes by user, date, and element
Hydraulics and Operations
• Custom data fields with user-assigned or formula-
• Two available solvers for the full set of 1D St. Venant
based values
equations: Implicit dynamic and Explicit dynamic
• Unlimited scenarios and alternatives
(EPA-SWMM)
• Scenario comparison
• Gradually varied flow-convex solver included
(OpenFlows SewerCAD solver) • Tabular reports with global edit, sort, and filter
• Gradually varied flow-rational solver included • Statistical analysis from tabular report
(OpenFlows StormCAD solver) • Customizable engineering libraries
• Extended period simulations • Dynamic and static selection sets
• Steady-state simulation, including peak flow • Orphan node and dead-end pipe queries
• Long-term continuous simulation • Sub-model management
• Critical storm analysis • Surface flow path tracing from terrain
• Energy cost analysis • ProjectWise® integration

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