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1. Reliability-Based Simulation-Optimization Model for Multireservoir Hydropower Systems Operations: Khersan Experience.

Author

Afzali, Raheleh, Mousavi, Seyed Jamshid, and Ghaheri, Abbas

Subjects
*SIMULATION methods & models, *STREAMFLOW, *RESERVOIRS, *ALGORITHMS, *MATHEMATICAL optimization
Abstract

A common method for assessing the energy potential of hydropower systems in Iran is the sequential streamflow routing with control on the energy-yield reliability. The method results in developing a reliability-based simulation (RBS) model that is used to analyze single-reservoir hydropower systems. In most of the cascade hydropower systems in the country, a single-reservoir RBS model is usually employed in the design and operation of each of the systems reservoirs. This paper presents a multireservoir RBS model considering the integrated operation of the systems. The model employs the general algorithm of the single-reservoir RBS model; however, with a single-period optimization submodel in determining releases from reservoirs during the system simulation. The objective function of the submodels minimizes the sum of reservoir releases and/or maximizes the sum of reservoir storages in each of the time periods, subject to a reliability constraint on the system’s energy yield. The single and multireservoir RBS models are applied in the Khersan hydropower system located in Iran as a case study. The multireservoir RBS, compared to the single-reservoir model, results in 7.9% excess firm-energy yield in reliability of 90%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008
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2. Neural-network-based simulation-optimization model for water allocation planning at basin scale.

Author

Shourian, M., Mousavi, S. Jamshid, Menhaj, M. B., and Jabbari, E.

Subjects
*ARTIFICIAL neural networks, *MATHEMATICAL optimization, *RIVERS, *NEURAL circuitry, *WATERSHEDS, *ALGORITHMS
Abstract

Heuristic search techniques are highly flexible, though they represent computationally intensive optimization methods that may require thousands of evaluations of expensive objective functions. This paper integrates MODSIM, a generalized river basin network flow model, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and artificial neural networks into a modeling framework for optimum water allocations at basin scale. MODSIM is called in the PSO model to simulate a river basin system operation and to evaluate the fitness of each set of selected design and operational variables with respect to the model's objective function, which is the minimization of the system's design and operational cost. Since the direct incorporation of MODSIM into a PSO algorithm is computationally prohibitive, an ANN model as a meta-model is trained to approximate the MODSIM modeling tool. The resulting model is used in the problem of optimal design and operation of the upstream Sirvan river basin in Iran as a case study. The computational efficiency of the model makes it possible to analyze the model performance through changing its parameters so that better solutions are obtained compared to those of the original PSO-MODSIM model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008
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