Parambikulam-Aliyar Project Operations Optimization with Reliability Constraints

AbstractIn this paper, a recently developed stochastic programming technique that includes reliability constraints is used to solve the operations optimization problem of the Parambikulam-Aliyar project (PAP), a multireservoir system in India. The use of reliability constraints as chance constraints...

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Published in:Journal of water resources planning and management 2013-07, Vol.139 (4), p.364-375
Main Authors: Mahootchi, M, Ponnambalam, K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Discretization
Nonlinear programming
Optimization
Reliability
Reservoirs
Resource management
Solvers
Technical Papers
Water resources
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Summary:AbstractIn this paper, a recently developed stochastic programming technique that includes reliability constraints is used to solve the operations optimization problem of the Parambikulam-Aliyar project (PAP), a multireservoir system in India. The use of reliability constraints as chance constraints in reservoir operations optimization have been around for some time, but is still a challenging problem because either the results are not good or they cannot be applied in problems with more than one or two reservoirs when such techniques depend on discretization. The new implementation of chance constraints based on a previous model extended to multireservoir systems provides better results than so far known. This work is easy to apply because it requires only a standard nonlinear programming solver.
ISSN:0733-9496
1943-5452
DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000261