Simulation of Karun River Reservoirs to Maximize Hydroelectric Power Generation (original) (raw)

MODELING AND SIMULATION OF HYDROELECTRIC POWER PROJECTS: A CASE STUDY ON MULLAPERIYAR RESERVOIR

Water is one of the most precious resources available on Earth and it can be stored and used effectively. Large reservoirs are formed by building dams across flowing water, for storing water and allocating water for different purposes. Modeling of water storage in reservoirs will help us to plan effective usage of water allocation for different purposes like downstream irrigation, power production and domestic water requirement. Here we develop a mathematical model to estimate water storage. Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data from Bhuvan is processed in ArcMAP for delineation of watershed and reservoir region. Inflow to the reservoir is rainfall and outflow is for irrigation, power generation is included in the model. The study takes account of the reservoir capacity, flow rate of water and computation of water level at the reservoir. The simulations show that it successfully simulated the daily volume of water for the period 2005-2015. Predicting the available water in the reservoir is critical for planning and efficient use of water for different purposes.

Simulation and optimization of hydraulic-hydrologic complex system ( case study in Iran )

2017

Water is one of the biggest challenges of this century in the very near future, which may be the source of many of the world’s positive and negative developments. Increasing population and a shortage of water resources necessitates the need for proper management of reservoirs. On the other hand in the management of water resources in addition to the issues we face at the same time exploiting reservoirs with hydraulic and water resources were important and both hydraulic and hydrologic modeling flow conditions must be considered together. In this study, three dams and two water transfer tunnels were used for transferring water from Yalan dam to Gokan dam (Yalan-Pashandegan-Gokan Water Transfer (YPGWT) Project). For YPGWT Project simulating and optimizing, at first dynamic programming (forward-moving) was developed, and after solving it, the best diameter and dam height for optimization of water transfer system was determined. Since the water flow through the tunnel is under pressure,...

Optimization of Multiple and Multipurpose Reservoir System Operations by Using Matrix Structure (Case Study: Karun and Dez Reservoir Dams

Optimal operation of water resources in multiple and multipurpose reservoirs is very complicated. This is because of the number of dams, each dam's location (Series and parallel), conflict in objectives and the stochastic nature of the inflow of water in the system. In this paper, performance optimization of the system of Karun and Dez reservoir dams have been studied and investigated with the purposes of hydroelectric energy generation and providing water demand in 6 dams. On the Karun River, 5 dams have been built in the series arrangements, and the Dez dam has been built parallel to those 5 dams. One of the main achievements in this research is the implementation of the structure of production of hydroelectric energy as a function of matrix in MATLAB software. The results show that the role of objective function structure for generating hydroelectric energy in weighting method algorithm is more important than water supply. Nonetheless by implementing ε-constraint method algorithm, we can both increase hydroelectric power generation and supply around 85% of agricultural and industrial demands.