Abstract
AbstractThis paper evaluates the impacts of multiple water uses on the operation of a system of existing reservoirs that originally were designed for hydropower generation. The research reported in this paper utilizes a nonlinear optimization model, developed to optimize hydropower production for a system of interconnected reservoirs. This model was modified to include water withdrawals for consumptive uses. The formulated multiobjective optimization problem is solved by employing the weighting method. The formulation considers water allocation policy for consumptive uses and individual hydropower plants. By parametrically varying the weighting coefficients, the tradeoff relationship (Pareto front) between hydropower generation and water demand for consumptive uses was traced out. The modified model is applied to the Sao Francisco River Basin in Brazil, where there are several hydropower plants in operation with a total installed capacity of 10.7 GW. The river basin is an important agricultural land that ...
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