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Operation policies for a three-reservoir system in Tianjin area, northern China | |
Author | He, Qing |
Call Number | AIT Thesis no. WA-87-12 |
Subject(s) | Reservoirs|--China--Tianjin |
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 | The difficulty involved in the solution of the problem of optimal operation of multi-unit reservoir systems taking into account the stochastic nature of inflows lies in the dramatical increase of the model dimensions. This study presents methods based on single reservoir stochastic dynamic programming concept to obtain operation policies for a system of three reservoirs, Panjiakou, Daheiting and Yuqiao. The system includes an interbasin water transfer from the Luanhe River to meet the water demand of the metropolitan area of Tianjin. Two mode ls have been developed to derive optimal operational rules. First a simple combination of the two serially interlinked reservoirs Panjiakou and Daheiting are considered as one composite reservoir. The feasibility of this simplification was checked by comparing the simulated operation of the reservoirs with SDP based optimal operation policies which were derived from one composite reservoir configuration and two separate reservoirs configurations. The second model is deriving the optimal operation policies of the two-reservoir surrogate system according to the 'one-at-a-time' principle by repeatedly using single reservoir's SDP model on Yuqiao with its local inflows; then the composite reservoir with the 'expected shortage values ' of Yuqiao reservoir first optimization as water demand; then the operation of Yuqiao reservoir was optimized again with the combination of its local inflow and the transferred releas e from the composite reservoir together as its 'natural' inflow. The fundamental concept of this method is the identification of " expected shortage values" as defined by the mean monthly difference between the water demand of Tianjin and the release according to the optimal policies of the first optimization of Yuqiao reservoir. These expected shortage values are obtained by simulation and used as targets to be met by the operation of the upstream composite reservoir. In the process, the effect of three different possible objectives, namely minimizing reservoir spillage, minimizing quadratic deviation from downstream water de1nand and maximizing reservoir releases, are considered a nd compared. Finally sensitivity analyses concerning the active capacity of Yuqiao, conveyance capacity of the downstream channel and water requirement of Tianjin have been carried out. |
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) | Wang, Tsan-Wen ;Paudyal, Guna N. ;Tawatchai Tingsanchali |
Scholarship Donor(s) | New Zealand Government |
Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology,1987 |