Reducing impacts of rice fields nitrate contamination on the river ecosystem by a coupled SWAT reservoir operation optimization model
Sedighkia, Mahdi, Datta, Bithin, and Abdoli, Asghar (2022) Reducing impacts of rice fields nitrate contamination on the river ecosystem by a coupled SWAT reservoir operation optimization model. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 15. 160.
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Abstract
The present study proposes a multipurpose reservoir operation optimization for mitigating impact of rice fields’ contamination on the downstream river ecosystem. The developed model was applied in the Tajan River basin in Mazandaran Province, Iran, in which the rice is the main crop. We used soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) to simulate inflow of the reservoir and nitrate load at downstream river reach. Nash–Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient was used to measure the robustness of SWAT. NSE indicated that SWAT is acceptable to simulate nitrate load of the rice fields. The results of SWAT was applied in the structure of a multipurpose reservoir operation optimization in which three metaheuristic algorithms including differential evolution algorithm, particle swarm optimization and biogeography-based algorithm were utilized in the optimization process. Reliability index, mean absolute error and failure index were used to measure the robustness of the optimization algorithms. Fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution was utilized to select the best algorithm. Based on results, particle swarm optimization is the best method to optimize reservoir operation in the case study. The reliability index and mean absolute error for water supply are 0.6 and 5 million cubic meters, respectively. Furthermore, the failure index of contamination is 0.027. Hence, it could be concluded that the proposed optimization system is reliable and robust to mitigate losses and nitrate contamination simultaneously. However, its performance is not perfect for minimizing impact of contamination in all the simulated months.
| Item ID: | 72136 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1866-7538 |
| Keywords: | Nitrate contamination, SWAT, Optimal reservoir operation, Metaheuristic algorithms, Fuzzy TOPSIS |
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