Balancing Ecological Requirements and Power Generation in Reservoir Operation in Fish Spawning Seasons
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 146, Issue 9
Abstract
Various studies have demonstrated that the long-term flow regime plays an important role in stimulating fish spawning. The flow regime is altered by the construction and operation of reservoirs. In this study, a flow-regime identification method is proposed, which extracts the rising hydrograph processes with a certain amplitude and duration through multiple passes of denoising and filtering algorithms to filter out random fluctuations with different amplitudes. The identified rising hydrograph processes were then quantitatively characterized using three parameters. A multiobjective optimization model was constructed to mimic the natural flow process in reservoir discharge and to maximize the output value of the power plant using the Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II). Finally, the proposed model was applied to the planning of a large-scale reservoir on the upper reaches of the Yellow River in China. The derived Pareto front in different hydrological years was analyzed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method, and various operational schemes were evaluated on this basis.
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Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the Integration Program of the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 91847302), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51879137 and 51979276). The authors would also like to thank ichthyologist Jianjun Zhang from the Yellow River Fisheries Research Institute and Professor Lianfang Xue from the China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute for their consultation.
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Received: Nov 12, 2019
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