| Author | Hasnie, Sohail |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. WA-87-11 |
| Subject(s) | Reservoirs--Bangladesh
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | One of the most usual problems, corresponding to an incipient phase
of water resources development is to estimate the capacity of a reservoir
to meet a given water or power demand in an economical way. The reservoirs
so far constructed often fail to fulfill the various levels of demand that
is the returns are less than expected. Since reliability measures the
probability that a given system works as anticipated, reliability studies
of a multipurpose reservoir plays an important role at the planning stage.
Many reasons among the unavailability causing events in a multipurpose
reservoir are the scheduled maintenance of the turbines and other electrical and mechanical appliances required for power generation, water
supply, and flood control, their failures, or simple unavailability due
to maintenance work and the lack of inflow can be blamed as the potential
causes. These failures which account for loss of system reliability may
also be defined as the result of a unavailability of system component(s).
This study presents a stochastic unavailability analysis of a hydropower
generating reservoir. Operation and maintenance data of Karnaphuli Reservoir, Bangladesh have been used to demonstrate the viability of this
method. The historical unavailability for a period of 26 years
(1962-1987) were assessed for the three power generating units. Power
generation is simulated to estimate the loss of potentially generated
energy due to stochastic unavailability of the system elements. |
| Year | 1987 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Water Resources Research Engineering (WA) |
| Chairperson(s) | Bogardi, Janos J. |
| Examination Committee(s) | Nielsen, Steen Asger ;Paudyal, Guna N.
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| Scholarship Donor(s) | Government of Australia |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1987 |