Abstract
The Adiguzel Dam is located in Denizli in the western part of Turkey. It was built for irrigation purposes, but it also produces energy at the same time. The dam’s energy-production regime is not regular since there are no reservoir-operating rules. Thus, this study develops a reservoir optimization rule to generate a corresponding gain in energy production. It is well known that operating a reservoir is a complex problem that depends on many parameters such as inflow, storage capacity, water elevation, tailwater elevation, and evaporation. Therefore, in order to optimize energy production, there is a need to use heuristic algorithms such as the Cuckoo Search (CS). This study develops a CS algorithm-based solution to optimize the reservoir’s operational system and generate an optimal operation rule curve. Results show that the CS algorithm improves the system operation, and the energy production will be increased by about 10% to a value of 160000 MWh with a corresponding economic gain of about $12 × 106in total for 183 months.
Highlights
As in many countries, energy demand has been increasing for many years
This study develops a Cuckoo Search (CS) algorithm-based solution to optimize the reservoir’s operational system and generate an optimal operation rule curve
Results show that the CS algorithm improves the system operation, and the energy production will be increased by about 10% to a value of 160000 MWh with a corresponding economic gain of about $12 × 106 in total for 183 months
Summary
Energy demand has been increasing for many years. Building new power plants is costly and takes a long time. In order to improve energy-production efficiency, there is a need to develop an optimal operation rule specific to each power plant like the Adiguzel Dam in Turkey. By developing such optimization techniques, it would be possible to achieve maximum benefits without the need for additional investment. Bozorg Haddad et al [19] applied the HBMO algorithm to extract linear monthly operation rules for both irrigation and hydropower reservoirs It can be seen in the literature that many heuristic methods have been used for optimizing the reservoir-operating system, but there are no studies on the application of the Cuckoo Search (CS) method, even though it is computationally efficient and it has advantages of not being trapped on local optima. The Adiguzel Dam has about 1 × 109 m3 of storage capacity, the crest elevation is 460 m, the gross head is 144 m, and its irrigation area is about 94825 ha
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