01.09.2015 | Ausgabe 12/2015
Reservoir Design Optimization Incorporating Performance Indices
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- Water Resources Management > Ausgabe 12/2015
Abstract
This paper introduces a reservoir design optimization model adapted to incorporate performance norms so that the active storage capacity can be determined assuming that failures may occur during the reservoir operation. The model is able to find the optimal reservoir capacity admitting either a predefined minimum number of failure periods or a maximum failure magnitude, or both. It is formulated as a mixed integer linear program that properly manages reservoir spills and includes evaporation losses. The procedure performs effectively for an example problem and Monte Carlo simulations and shows that lower accepted reliabilities and higher accepted vulnerabilities require less active storage.