Decision Support System for Operation of Integrated Hydropower Systems

Operation of multipurpose multireservoir hydro systems is very complicated task even using some sort of guidelines or support system without it is practically impossible. In a multipurpose multireservoir system, we usually have variety of goals and objectives to achieve in operation, and some times one faces conflicting objectives to conquer. Therefore, a proper model for hydro system enhancing all possible information of different operation rules is necessary in order to control the water resource and be able to manage it in an optimal way. Furthermore a `clever' and `smart' decision support system (DSS) with immense capability to `crunch' all the information and find the most compatible strategy with the objectives is an indispensable tool in successful reservoir operation. In this work a DSS is designed and developed to take all the selected optimal strategies for operation of the hydro system as an input and verifies few physical parameter values of the system with the user, then provides the optimal releases from each reservoir as an output.

Keywords:

DSS , Hydropower , Optimization , Multireservoir , Modeling