Abstract
Reservoir design entails the determination of the required storage capacity over multiple years of low flow conditions to ensure the coverage of multiple-purpose water demands. Dam operation depends on many factors that may result in the decrease of required safe yields, leading to inadequate outflow supplies in the design period. This study addresses two issues: (a) the computation of reservoir active storage capacity performed with the aid of the new concept of a zero-height dam, a procedure easy to interpret physically and implement computationally; and (b) the generation of appropriate inflow data, provided that a substantial record of monthly inflows is available. The treatment of the inflow data for the generation of inflow sequences for any desired regulation period is performed by two original methods (First and Second), which are entirely different from other available methods and allow for the selection of a reservoir capacity with the desired level of exceedance probability. The two methods proposed give practically the same results. However, the Second Method, which generates inflow data consisting of hydrologic years with inflow values for each month randomly selected from the observed values for that month, is superior in terms of the ease with which inflow sequences are generated. Also, due to the large size of the random sample that can be generated, the exceedance probability curves are very smooth and allow for the easy selection of reservoir storage capacity with any level of desired exceedance probability. The proposed methodology may be useful for consultants and reservoir managers.
Highlights
The design of a reservoir project entails the determination of the required storage capacity over multiple years of low flow conditions to ensure the coverage of multiple-purpose water demands.Water storage during water-rich seasons and its use during dry seasons have occupied man since ancient times
Dam operation depends on many factors that may result in the decrease of required safe yields, leading to inadequate outflow supplies in the design period
The focus of this study is on a general methodology for the determination of the required storage capacity of a reservoir, which is in the design phase
Summary
The design of a reservoir project entails the determination of the required storage capacity over multiple years of low flow conditions to ensure the coverage of multiple-purpose water demands.Water storage during water-rich seasons and its use during dry seasons have occupied man since ancient times. The design of a reservoir project entails the determination of the required storage capacity over multiple years of low flow conditions to ensure the coverage of multiple-purpose water demands. The oldest dam, called Sadd el-Kafara, was constructed around 2950–2750 B.C. by ancient Egyptians, but it failed after a few years [1]. Dam operation depends on many factors that may result in the decrease of required safe yields, leading to inadequate outflow supplies in the design period. Such factors are: (a) increases in water demand due to increases in population
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