Hydropower reservoir operation with environmental flow consideration in La Nga River Basin, Vietnam | |
| Author | Nguyen Dinh Chien |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.WM-06-2 |
| Subject(s) | Hydroelectric power plants--Vietnam Stream ecology--Vietnam--La Nga River Basin La Nga River Basin (Vietnam)--Environmental aspects |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Water Engineering and Management |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | The goal of this study is to determine the environmental flow requirements for La Nga River in central Viet Nam by applying the range of variability approach. This approach is used to evaluate the pre-dam and post-dam flows and establish the riverine management targets in terms of thirty-two hydrologic parameters called indicators of hydrologic alteration (IHAs). A reservoir-operation simulation approach is employed to compute the post-dam flows with different operation policies. Based on the simulation results, modifying reservoir operation policy would reduce the degree of hydrologic alteration. With all efforts to reduce the overall degree of hydrologic alteration to the level as natural flow regime while meeting energy demand, the energy production would reduce eleven percent whereas the overall degree of hydrologic alteration would attain forty-six percent, thus better protecting the aquatic ecosystem than the current operation policy. |
| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Water Engineering and Management (WM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Babel, Mukand S.;Gupta, Ashim Das; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Clemente, Roberto S.;Herath, Srikantha; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Electricity of Vietnam |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2007 |