Short-Term Load Dispatching Method for a Diversion Hydropower Plant with Multiple Turbines in One Tunnel Using a Two-Stage Model

Shengli Liao, Hongye Zhao, Gang Li and Benxi Liu
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Shengli Liao: Institute of Hydropower System & Hydroinformatics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Hongye Zhao: Institute of Hydropower System & Hydroinformatics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Gang Li: Institute of Hydropower System & Hydroinformatics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Benxi Liu: Institute of Hydropower System & Hydroinformatics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-18

Abstract: Short-term load dispatching (STLD) for a hydropower plant with multiple turbines in one tunnel (HPMTT) refers to determining when to startup or shutdown the units of different tunnels and scheduling the online units of each tunnel to obtain optimal load dispatch while simultaneously meeting the hydraulic and electric system constraints. Modeling and solving the STLD for a HPMTT is extremely difficult due to mutual interference between units and complications of the hydraulic head calculation. Considering the complexity of the hydraulic connections between multiple power units in one tunnel, a two-phase decomposition approach for subproblems of unit-commit (UC) and optimal load dispatch (OLD) is described and a two-stage model (TSM) is adopted in this paper. In the first stage, an on/off model for the units considering duration constraints is established, and the on/off status of the units and tunnels is determined using a heuristic searching method and a progressive optimal algorithm. In the second stage, a load distribution model is established and solved using dynamic programming for optimal load distribution under the premise of the on/off status of the tunnel and units in the first stage. The proposed method is verified using the load distribution problem for the Tianshengqiao-II reservoir (TSQII) in dry season under different typical load rates. The results meet the practical operation requirements and demonstrate the practicability of the proposed method.

Keywords: hydropower plant with multiple turbines in one tunnel; short-term load distribution; unit commitment; two-phase decomposition approach; hydro-unit on-off optimal model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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