An Effective Approach to Long-Term Optimal Operation of Large-Scale Reservoir Systems: Case Study of the Three Gorges System

Fang-Fang Li, Jia-Hua Wei, Xu-Dong Fu () and Xin-Yu Wan

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2012, vol. 26, issue 14, 4073-4090

Abstract: A new approach for optimization of long-term operation of large-scale reservoirs is presented, incorporating Incremental Dynamic Programming (IDP) and Genetic algorithm (GA) . The immense storage capacity of the large scale reservoirs enlarges feasible region of the operational decision variables, which leads to invalidation of traditional random heuristic optimization algorithms. Besides, long term raised problem dimension, which has a negative impact on reservoir operational optimization because of its non-linearity and non-convexity. The hybrid IDP-GA approach proposed exploits the validity of IDP for high dimensional problem with large feasible domain by narrowing the search space with iterations, and also takes the advantage of the efficiency of GA in solving highly non-linear, non-convex problems. IDP is firstly used to narrow down the search space with discrete d variables. Within the sub search space provided by IDP, GA searches the optimal operation scheme with continuous variables to improve the optimization precision. This hybrid IDP-GA approach was applied to daily optimization of the Three Gorges Project-Gezhouba cascaded hydropower system for annual evaluation from the year of 2004 to 2008. Contrast test shows hybrid IDP-GA approach outperforms both the univocal IDP and the classical GA. Another sub search space determined by actual operational data is also compared, and the hybrid IDP-GA approach saves about 10 times of computing resources to obtain similar increments. It is shown that the hybrid IDP GA approach would be a promising approach to dealing with long-term optimization problems of large-scale reservoirs. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

Keywords: Reservoir optimization; Long-term; Large scale; Genetic algorithm; Incremental dynamic programming; The Three Gorges System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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