Analyzing environmental flow supply in the semi-arid area through integrating drought analysis and optimal operation of reservoir
Sedighkia, Mahdi, and Datta, Bithin (2023) Analyzing environmental flow supply in the semi-arid area through integrating drought analysis and optimal operation of reservoir. Journal of Arid Land, 15 (12). pp. 1439-1454.
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Abstract
This study proposes a novel form of environmental reservoir operation through integrating environmental flow supply, drought analysis, and evolutionary optimization. This study demonstrates that simultaneous supply of downstream environmental flow of reservoir as well as water demand is challenging in the semi-arid area especially in dry years. In this study, water supply and environmental flow supply were 40% and 30% in the droughts, respectively. Moreover, mean errors of supplying water demand as well as environmental flow in dry years were 6 and 9 m3/s, respectively. Hence, these results highlight that ecological stresses of the downstream aquatic habitats as well as water supply loss are considerably escalated in dry years, which implies even using environmental optimal operation is not able to protect downstream aquatic habitats properly in the severe droughts. Moreover, available storage in reservoir will be remarkably reduced (averagely more than 30×106 m3 compared with optimal storage equal to 70×106 m3), which implies strategic storage of reservoir might be threatened. Among used evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm optimization (PSO) was selected as the best algorithm for solving the novel proposed objective function. The significance of this study is to propose a novel objective function to optimize reservoir operation in which environmental flow supply is directly addressed and integrated with drought analysis. This novel form of optimization system can overcome uncertainties of the conventional objective function due to considering environmental flow in the objective function as well as drought analysis in the context of reservoir operation especially applicable in semi-arid areas. The results indicate that using either other water resources for water supply or reducing water demand is the only solution for managing downstream ecological impacts of the river ecosystem. In other words, the results highlighted that replanning of water resources in the study area is necessary. Replacing the conventional optimization system for reservoir operation in the semi-arid area with proposed optimization system is recommendable to minimize the negotiations between stakeholders and environmental managers.
Item ID: | 81558 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 2194-7783 |
Keywords: | droughts, environmental flow regime, metaheuristic algorithms, optimization, reservoir operation |
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Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2024 01:21 |
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