Optimization of Year-End Water Level of Multi-Year Regulating Reservoir in Cascade Hydropower System Considering the Inflow Frequency Difference

Zhiqiang Jiang, Peibing Song and Xiang Liao
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Zhiqiang Jiang: Hydro-Intelligence Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Peibing Song: College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Xiang Liao: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 20, 1-20

Abstract: In order to analyze the year-end water level of multi-year regulating reservoir of the cascade hydropower system, this paper studied the joint operation optimization model of cascade reservoirs and its solving method based on multi-dimensional dynamic programming, and analyzed the power generation impact factors of cascade system that contains multi-year regulating reservoir. In particular, taking the seven reservoirs in the middle and lower reaches of Yalong River as an example, the optimal year-end water levels of multi-year regulating reservoir under the multi-year average situation and different inflow frequencies situation were studied. Based on the optimal calculation results of multi-dimensional dynamic programming, the inflow frequency difference considered operation rule of year-end water level of Lianghekou reservoir was extracted using the least square principle. The simulation results showed that, compared with the fixed year-end water level in multi-year, the extracted rule can improve the cascade power generation by more than 400 million kWh in an average year, representing an increase of 0.4%. This result means that the extracted rule can give full play to the regulation performance of multi-year regulating reservoir and improve the conversion efficiency of hydropower resources in cascade system. This is of great significance to the practical operation of cascade reservoirs system that contains multi-year regulating reservoir.

Keywords: multi-year regulating reservoir; year-end water level; inflow frequency; operation rules; Yalong River basin (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: 2020
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