A multi-objective reservoirs system development as a sample case in the reservoir systems management

Subject Areas : Farm water management with the aim of improving irrigation management indicators

Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni ¹ , Omid Bozorg-Haddad ²

1 - دانشجوی دکتری؛ گروه مهندسی آبیاری و آبادانی؛ دانشکده مهندسی و فناوری کشاورزی؛ پردیس کشاورزی و منابع طبیعی دانشگاه تهران؛ کرج؛ ایران
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Irrigation & Reclamation Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2014-06-30 Accepted : 2015-02-01 Published : 2014-12-21

Keywords: Case Study, multi-reservoir system, Multi-objective optimization, Operation,

Abstract :

Water resources systems as a set of structures and equipment, strongly need proper operational programming in order to optimally supply demands and perform suitable water conservation. Water reservoirs are the most commonly used water resources systems for supplying domestic demands whose incorrect management may lead to unsuitable water resources protection and huge financial losses. Approximately in all of the reservoir design, operation and management problems, real reservoir system case studies are studied and analyzed according to the existing conditions and their objectives. Under these conditions, it can be very useful to define and introduce a sample reservoir system which can be investigated for all conditions and objectives. In this research, a three-reservoir system is presented for the first time, considering all physical and hydrological parameters beside three general objectives of generating hydropower energy, supplying downstream demands (agricultural, municipal and industrial) and flood control. The obtained results are quite logical, with a natural trend based on the logically defined data for the sample reservoir system. Therefore, this sample case study is capable of showing the performance of reservoir systems in different states of single or multi reservoirs and single or multi objectives. As a result, the presented reservoir system can be used as a sample case study for introducing and developing different methods in solving water reservoir system problems.