Evaluation of Real-Time Operation Rules in Reservoir Systems Operation

Reservoir operation rules are logical or mathematical equations that take into account system variables to calculate water release from a reservoir based on inflow and storage volume values. In fact, previous experiences of the system are used to balance reservoir system parameters in each operational period. Commonly, reservoir operation rules have been considered to be linear decision rules (LDRs) and constant coefficients developed by using various optimization procedures. This paper addresses the application of real-time operation rules on a reservoir system whose purpose is to supply total downstream demand. Those rules include standard operation policy (SOP), stochastic dynamic programming (SDP), LDR, and nonlinear decision rule (NLDR) with various orders of inflow and reservoir storage volume. Also, a multi-attribute decision method, elimination and choice expressing reality (ELECTRE)-I, with a combination of indices, objective functions, and reservoir performance criteria (reliability, resiliency, and vulnerability) are used to rank the aforementioned rules. The ranking method employs two combinations of indices: (1) performance criteria and (2) objective function and performance criteria by using the same weights for all criteria. Results show that the NLDR gives an appropriate rule for real-time operation. Moreover, NLDR validation is presented by testing predefined curves for dry, normal, and wet years.     

Operating rules of irrigation reservoir under climate change and its application for the Dongwushi Reservoir in China

Since agriculture development would be affected by climate change, the reservoir operation for agricultural irrigation should be adjusted. However, there are to date few literatures addressing how to design adaptive operating rules for an irrigation reservoir. This study aims to analyze the adaption of fixed operating rules and to derive adaptive operating rules under climate change. The deterministic optimization model is established with the solving method of two-dimensional dynamic programming (TDDP), and its optimal trajectory is supplied to derive reservoir operating rules at time intervals of crop growth periods. Then, two alternative operating rules, including fixed operating rules based on historical data and adaptive operating rules based on climate change data, are extracted using the fitting method with the multiple linear regression model. The alteration of reservoir inflow under climate change is calculated by the Budyko formula. A case study of the China’s Dongwushi Reservoir shows that: (1) fixed operating rules are unable to adapt climate change in the future scenario. Thus, adaptive operating rules should be established, (2) adaptive operating rules can reduce profits loss resulting from climate change, and improve field soil water storages, and (3) precipitation reduction by 7%/40a is the major cause for agricultural profits loss, whereas, the decrement of agricultural profits is less than that of precipitation, which indicates agricultural crops have the resilience to resist the adverse influence from precipitation decrease. These findings are helpful for adaptive operation of irrigation reservoirs under climate change.     

Simulation with RBF Neural Network Model for Reservoir Operation Rules

Reservoirs usually have multipurpose, such as flood control, water supply, hydropower and recreation. Deriving reservoirs operation rules are very important because it could help guide operators determine the release. For fulfilling such work, the use of neural network has presented to be a cost-effective technique superior to traditional statistical methods. But their training, usually with back-propagation (BP) algorithm or other gradient algorithms, is often with certain drawbacks. In this paper, a newly developed method, simulation with radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) model is adopted. Exemplars are obtained through a simulation model, and RBF neural network is trained to derive reservoirs operation rules by using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The Yellow River upstream multi-reservoir system is demonstrated for this study.     

变化环境下水库适应性调度研究进展与展望

在气候变化与人类活动共同驱动的变化环境下,依赖于一致性水文条件所设计的传统水库调度运行策略,将难以满足决策者的需求。为了保障水资源安全与高效利用,水库管理者需对传统水库调度运行策略进行适应性调整。因此,变化环境下水库适应性调度作为当前水库调度领域的一项前沿课题,国内外专家学者已经开展了大量卓越的工作。本文旨在于总结近年来的水库适应性调度研究进展,包括变化环境下水库入库径流预测、水库调度规则编制以及耦合变化环境-入库径流-调度规则的框架等方面,并归纳当前相关研究中存在的问题及不足。进而,未来水库适应性调度研究发展方向,建议更多关注考虑自然-人工互馈影响的入库径流预测、水库调度运行策略的静态衔接与动态调整。     

Single Reservoir Operating Policies Using Genetic Algorithm

To obtain optimal operating rules for storage reservoirs, large numbers of simulation and optimization models have been developed over the past several decades, which vary significantly in their mechanisms and applications. As every model has its own limitations, the selection of appropriate model for derivation of reservoir operating rule curves is difficult and most often there is a scope for further improvement as the model selection depends on data available. Hence, evaluation and modifications related to the reservoir operation remain classical. In the present study a Genetic Algorithm model has been developed and applied to Pechiparai reservoir in Tamil Nadu, India to derive the optimal operational strategies. The objective function is set to minimize the annual sum of squared deviation form desired irrigation release and desired storage volume. The decision variables are release for irrigation and other demands (industrial and municipal demands), from the reservoir. Since the rule curves are derived through random search it is found that the releases are same as that of demand requirements. Hence based on the present case study it is concluded that GA model could perform better if applied in real world operation of the reservoir.     

Identifying Explicit Formulation of Operating Rules for Multi-Reservoir Systems Using Genetic Programming

Operating rules have been widely used to handle the inflows uncertainty for reservoir long-term operations. Such rules are often expressed in implicit formulations not easily used by other operators and/or reservoirs directly. This study presented genetic programming (GP) to derive the explicit nonlinear formulation of operating rules for multi-reservoir systems. Steps in the proposed method include: (1) determining the optimal operation trajectory of the multi-reservoir system using the dynamic programming to solve a deterministic long-term operation model, (2) selecting the input variables of operating rules using GP based on the optimal operation trajectory, (3) identifying the formulation of operating rules using GP again to fit the optimal operation trajectory, (4) refining the key parameters of operating rules using the parameterization-simulation-optimization method. The method was applied to multi-reservoir system in China that includes the Three Gorges cascade hydropower reservoirs (Three Gorges and Gezhouba reservoirs) and the Qing River cascade hydropower reservoirs (Shuibuya, Geheyan and Gaobazhou reservoirs). The inflow and storage energy terms were selected as input variables for total output of the aggregated reservoir and for decomposition. It was shown that power energy term could more effectively reflect the operating rules than water quantity for the hydropower systems; the derived operating rules were easier to implement for practical use and more efficient and reliable than the conventional operating rule curves and artificial neural network (ANN) rules, increasing both average annual hydropower generation and generation assurance rate, indicating that the proposed GP formulation had potential for improving the operating rules of multi-reservoir system.     

Operating Rules Derivation of Jinsha Reservoirs System with Parameter Calibrated Support Vector Regression

The reservoir optimal operation depends on not only specific characteristics of reservoirs and hydropower stations but also stochastic inflows. The key issue of actual hydropower operation is to make an approximate optimal decision triggered by limited inflow forecasts. To implement actual optimal operation of hydropower system with limited inflows forecast, this paper makes use of Support Vector Regression (SVR) to derive optimal operating rules. To improve the performance of SVR, parameters in SVR model are calibrated with grid search and cross validation techniques. The trained SVR model describes the complex nonlinear relationships between reservoir operation decisions and factors by considering both generalization and regression performance, which overcomes local optimization and over fitting deficits. Hybrid programming platform is further developed to implement system simulation. This SVR model along with simulation platform is applied to the largest hydropower base in China – Jinsha system. Three scenarios are developed for comparison: deterministic optimal operation, SVR based simulation with calibrated parameters, SVR based simulation with default parameters. Comprehensive evaluation indicates that, operating rules derived from SVR presents a reliable performance in system power generation and output processes with respect to ideal deterministic results, especially when the parameters are calibrated. Hybrid programming technique provides a feasible and compatible platform for future research.     

Integrated Reservoir Management System for Flood Risk Assessment Under Climate Change

Operations of existing reservoirs will be affected by climate change. Reservoir operating rules developed using historical information will not provide the optimal use of storage under changing hydrological conditions. In this paper, an integrated reservoir management system has been developed to adapt existing reservoir operations to changing climatic conditions. The reservoir management system integrates: (1) the K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) weather generator model; (2) the HEC-HMS hydrological model; and (3) the Differential Evolution (DE) optimization model. Six future weather scenarios are employed to verify the integrated reservoir management system using Upper Thames River basin in Canada as a case study. The results demonstrate that the integrated system provides optimal reservoir operation rule curves that reflect the hydrologic characteristics of future climate scenarios. Therefore, they may be useful for the development of reservoir climate change adaptation strategy.     

Synchronizing Artificial Intelligence Models for Operating the Dam and Reservoir System

It is remarkable that several hydrological parameters have a significant effect on the reservoir operation. Therefore, operating the reservoir system is complex issue due to existing the nonlinearity hydrological variables. Hence, determining modern model has high ability in handling reservoir operation is crucial. The present study developed artificial intelligence model, called Shark Machine Learning Algorithm (SMLA) to provide optimal operational rules. The major objective for the proposed model is minimizing the deficit volume between water releases and the irrigation water demand. The current study compared the performance of the SML model with popular evolutionary computing methods, namely Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). The proposed models have been utilized of finding the optimal policies to operate Timah Tasoh Dam, which is located in Malaysia. The study utilized considerable statistical indicators to explore the efficiency of the models. The simulation period showed that SMLA approach outperforms both of conventional algorithms. The SMLA attained high Reliability and Resilience (Rel. = 0.98%, Res. = 50%) and minimum Vulnerability (Vul. = 21.9 of demand). It is demonstrated that shark machine learning algorithm would be a promising tool in handling the long-term optimization problem in operation a reservoir system.     

Deriving Reservoir Refill Operating Rules by Using the Proposed DPNS Model

The dynamic programming neural-network simplex (DPNS) model, which is aimed at making some improvements to the dynamic programming neural-network (DPN) model, is proposed and used to derive refill operating rules in reservoir planning and management. The DPNS model consists of three stages. First, the training data set (reservoir optimal sequences of releases) is searched by using the dynamic programming (DP) model to solve the deterministic refill operation problem. Second, with the training data set obtained, the artificial neural network (ANN) model representing the operating rules is trained through back-propagation (BP) algorithm. These two stages construct the standard DPN model. The third stage of DPNS is proposed to refine the operating rules through simulation-based optimization. By choosing maximum the hydropower generation as objective function, a nonlinear programming technique, Simplex method, is used to refine the final output of the DPN model. Both the DPNS and DPN models are used to derive operating rules for the real time refill operation of the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) for the year of 2007. It is shown that the DPNS model can improve not only the probability of refill but also the mean hydropower generation when compare with that of the DPN model. It's recommended that the objective function of ANN approach for deriving refill operating rules should maximize the yield or minimize the loss, which can be computed from reservoir simulation during the refill period, rather than to fit the optimal data set as well as possible. And the derivation of optimal or near-optimal operating rules can be carried out effectively and efficiently using the proposed DPNS model.     

Multi-objective Cultured Differential Evolution for Generating Optimal Trade-offs in Reservoir Flood Control Operation

Reservoir flood control operation (RFCO) is a complex problem because it needs to consider multiple objectives and a large number of constraints. Traditional methods usually convert multiple objectives into a single objective to solve, using weighted methods or constrained methods. In this paper, a new approach named multi-objective cultured differential evolution (MOCDE) is proposed to deal with RFCO. MOCDE takes cultural algorithm as its framework and adopts differential evolution (DE) in its population space. Considering the features of DE and multi-objective optimization, three knowledge structures are defined in belief space to improve the searching efficiency of MOCDE. MOCDE is first tested on several benchmark problems and compared with some well known multi-objective optimization algorithms. On achieving satisfactory performance for test problems, MOCDE is applied to a case study of RFCO. It is found that MOCDE provides decision makers many alternative non-dominated schemes with uniform coverage and convergence to true Pareto optimal solutions in a short time. The results obtained show that MOCDE can be a viable alternative for generating optimal trade-offs in reservoir multi-objective flood control operation.     

Application of ANN, Fuzzy Logic and Decision Tree Algorithms for the Development of Reservoir Operating Rules

Optimal use of scarce water resources is the prime objective for water resources development projects in the developing country like India. Optimal releases have been generally expressed as a function of reservoir state variables and hydrologic inputs by a relationship which ultimately allows the policy/water managers to determine the water to be released as a function of available information. Optimal releases were obtained by using optimal control theory with inflow series and revised reservoir characteristics such as elevation area capacity table, zero elevation level as input in this study. Operating rules for reservoir were developed as a function of demand, water level and inflow. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with back propagation algorithm, Fuzzy Logic and decision tree algorithms such as M5 and REPTree were used for deriving the operating rules using the optimal releases for an irrigation and power supply reservoir, located in northern India. It was found that fuzzy logic model performed well compared to other soft computing techniques such as ANN, M5P and REPTree investigated in this study.     

启发式与人机交互相结合的水库防洪模糊优化调度模型

本文以水库泄流的一般规律作为启发信息，快速生成洪水调度的初步方案，以模糊优选模型评价方案优劣，在上述方案评价的结果上，通过人机交互方式生产其它的可行方案，直至决策者得到比较满意的结果为止。从方案生成到最终抉择都引入了人的知识，便于快速得到满意的方案，是一种行之有效的洪水调度方法。     

水库多目标优化调度技术比较研究

多目标智能优化算法种类繁多,不断涌现,在水库优化调度中得到了广泛应用,但多目标智能优化技术仍然是目前水库群综合利用优化调度研究中的热点和难点之一。已有的研究算法大多是关于水库优化调度中适用性的应用研究,且实际问题简化多,在算法算子的选择、算法性能的探讨和比较、特别是多目标优化等方面还不够深入。为此,选择应用较为广泛的NSGA-Ⅱ和DEMO算法,从变量规模、约束处理技术等方面,对其在水库多目标优化调度中的应用效果进行初步分析、比较和评估,为水库多目标优化调度算法的选择提供了参考。     

A Parallel Multi-objective Optimization Algorithm Based on Coarse-to-Fine Decomposition for Real-time Large-scale Reservoir Flood Control Operation

Reservoir flood control operation (RFCO) is a multi-objective optimization problem with a long sequence of correlated decision variables. It brings big challenges to large-scale multi-objective optimizers which were generally developed based on the divide-and-conquer strategy. For solving large-scale RFCO problem, a novel coarse-to-fine decomposition method is developed and combined with the algorithmic framework of multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D), giving rise to the proposed pCFD-MOEA/D algorithm. The pCFD-MOEA/D algorithm first divides the original RFCO problem into a sequence of sub-problems from coarse to fine scale with different scheduling time intervals. Then all sub-problems are optimized simultaneously and communicate at set intervals. Experimental results on three typical floods at Ankang reservoir have demonstrated that the proposed pCFD-MOEA/D can successfully obtain the elaborate hourly schedule schemes in real time and outperforms the compared algorithms.

     

Optimal Operation of Reservoir Systems using Simulated Annealing

A stochastic search technique, simulated annealing (SA), is used to optimize the operation of multiple reservoirs. Seminal application of annealing technique in general to multi-period, multiple-reservoir systems, along with problem representation and selection of different parameter values used in the annealing algorithm for specific cases is discussed. The search technique is improved with the help of heuristic rules, problem-specific information and concepts from the field of evolutionary algorithms. The technique is tested for application to a benchmark problem of four-reservoir system previously solved using a linear programming formulation and its ability to replicate the global optimum solution is examined. The technique is also applied to a system of four hydropower generating reservoirs in Manitoba, Canada, to derive optimal operating rules. A limited version of this problem is solved using a mixed integer nonlinear programming and results are compared with those obtained using SA. A better objective function value is obtained using simulated annealing than the value from a mixed integer non-linear programming model developed for the same problem. Results obtained from these applications suggest that simulated annealing can be used for obtaining near-optimal solutions for multi-period reservoir operation problems that are computationally intractable.     

Derivation of Optimal Hedging Rules for a Water-supply Reservoir through Compromise Programming

This study derives optimal hedging rules for simultaneously minimizing short- and long-term shortage characteristics for a water-supply reservoir. Hedging is an effective measure to reduce a high-percentage single period shortage, but at a cost of more frequent small shortages. Thus simultaneously minimizing the maximum monthly shortage and the shortage ratio (defined as the ratio of total shortages to total demands) over the analysis horizon is the operation goal of a water-supply reservoir to derive optimal hedging rules. Two types of hedging are explored in this study: the first uses water availability defined as storage plus inflow, while the second depends on the potential shortage conditions within a specific future lead-time period. The compromise programming is employed to solve this conflicting multiobjective problem. The optimal hedging rules under given reservoir inflow are derived first. Because future inflow cannot be known exactly in advance, the monthly decile inflows are suggested as a surrogate for forecast of future inflows in hedging rules for real-time reservoir operations. The results show that the suggested method can effectively achieve the reservoir operation goal. The merits of the proposed methodology are demonstrated with an application to the Shihmen reservoir in Taiwan.     

水库群系统发电调度的合作博弈研究

水资源的竞争性和非排他性导致水库管理者基于个体利益进行发电调度,使得水库在满足个体利益的同时往往忽略了系统的整体效益。为了在保证个体利益的基础上实现系统总效益的最大化,建立了梯级水库群发电调度合作博弈模型;采用改进后的水循环算法对模型进行分层求解。以金沙江两库与三峡梯级构成的梯级水库群为研究对象,选取典型年进行实例计算。计算结果表明：梯级水库群发电调度的合作博弈模型在获得系统最大效益的同时使得个体利益达到Pareto最优状态,实现水库群总效益和单库个体效益的双赢,既优于联合优化调度模型又优于单库优化调度模型。该合作博弈模型及其新解法可为水库群调度决策分析开创一种新思路。     

并联供水水库联合调度规则最优性条件研究Ⅰ:理论分析

水库群联合调度规则最优性条件是科学制定水库群联合调度策略的理论基础,也是确定水库群蓄放水次序的重要依据。先确定水库群系统总供水量进而优化其在各个水库中的供水任务分配是水库群联合调度中最常见的做法,因而由总供水量确定规则和供水任务分配规则(蓄水量空间分布规则)构成的水库群联合调度规则也是最常见的调度规则。本文以并联水库群系统中这类调度规则为研究对象,采用库恩-塔克条件(K-T条件),给出了这类常用调度规则的最优性条件及其对应的时段可利用水量阈值范围,提出了水库蓄放水优先次序的划分标准。研究结果表明:由总供水量确定规则和蓄水量空间分布规则构成的水库群联合调度规则适用条件较差,而且仅当水库群系统中每个水库可利用水量与系统总可利用水量始终维持在给定的阈值范围内时,并联系统调度运行的最优性才能得到保障。