Allocation of Flood Control Capacity for a Multireservoir System Located at the Yangtze River Basin

Xiang Fu (), An-Qiang Li () and Hui Wang ()

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2014, vol. 28, issue 13, 4823-4834

Abstract: The paper presents a three step procedure to allocate flood reserve capacity of the reservoirs in a river basin to manage floods and increase hydropower generation. The first step is trying to identify the flood reserve space and reservoir storage availability during the post-flood season in dry year to evaluate the feasibility for future planned flood reserve capacity. Step 2 is dividing the flood reserve space, by using a novel partitioning method to obtain flood protection coefficient. Step 3 is allocating of flood reserve capacity with various storage options of multi-reservoirs, using a simulation-optimization approach. The results show that the most satisfactory solution both reduces downstream overflow and maximizes hydropower, firm power and target storage rate. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Multireservoir; Flood control reserve capacity; Partitioning approach; Simulation analysis; Multiobjective optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0778-9

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