Optimum conjunctive use of a dual-purpose desalting plant and a surface water reservoir

✍ Scribed by Fereidoun Mobasheri; Ricardo Harboe

• Book ID: 104112707
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 938 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-9164
• DOI: 10.1016/s0011-9164(00)80026-0

✦ Synopsis

A mathetniatical mode1 is constructed to determine the optimum contract levels for firm water and on-peak energy supply from a dual-purpose desalination plant which will be operated in conjunction with an existing multi-purpose surface water reservoir. A computer program, based on dynamic programming algorithm, is developed to carry out the calculations involved in the exercise of the mathematical model. The model is applied to a hypothetical system for illustrative pu1pose5. For the cases studied the water cost was decreased by about thirtyeight percent when conjunctive operation was carried out. Average water surface area of the reservoir in month n, as a function of reservoir storage and water release in month n Annual firm on-peak energy production Annual firm water supply Desalinized water production in month n Power plant efficiency as a function of reservoir storage level in month n Ef'R(S,) -Energy production rate as a function of reservoir storage in month n ERi, Evaporation rate from the surface of the reservoir during month n EVA, -Evaporation losses from reservoir surface in month n fx%) -Sfate evaluation function for month n . 011 leave at