Hydrologic designs require accurate estimation of quartiles of extreme floods. But in many developing regions, records of flood data are seldom available. A model framework using the dimensionless index flood for the transfer of Flood Frequency Curve (FFC) among stream gauging sites in a hydrologically homogeneous region is proposed. Key elements of the model framework include: (1) confirmation of the homogeneity of the region; (2) estimation of index flood-basin area relation; (3) derivation of the regional flood frequency curve (RFFC) and deduction of FFC of an ungauged catchment as a product of index flood and dimensionless RFFC. As an application, 1983 to 2004 annual extreme flood from six selected gauging sites located in Anambra-Imo River basin of southeast Nigeria, were used to demonstrate that the developed index flood model: , overestimated flood quartiles in an ungauged site of the basin. It is recommended that, for wider application, the model results can be improved by the availability and use of over 100 years length of flood data spatially distributed at critical locations of the watershed. Doi: 10.28991/cej-2020-03091627 Full Text: PDF
In this study, cost-benefit analysis of Awka city water supply project was carried out considering current and projected water supply infrastructure. The result indicates benefit-cost ratios ranging from 0.3 to 0.5, meaning that there are between $1.90 and $3.36 of costs for every $1 in economic benefits. When these very low benefit-cost ratios are considered alongside the inconsistent and incomplete financial plans, it is clear that the proposed water supply project is not justified on an economic or financial basis. The study revealed that investments in the proposed water supply project would reduce government expenditure by over a period of twenty years.
Three Anaerobic Baffled Reactors (ABRs) are used to evaluate the extent of scale effects of cyanide inhibition of cassava wastewater treatment. The reactors (physical models) have aspect ratios of (53:16:30; 4:1:1; 10:3:6). Kinetic analyses of specific growth rate μ max and half saturation constant are evaluated for the respective reactors. For the respective reactors, non-inhibited cassava wastewater treatment process showed Kincannon model yields (μ max = 17.24day -1 ; 21.74day -1 ; 21.28 day -1 and ) while Monod model yields (μ max = 10.87 day -1 ; 12.82 day -1 ; 13.70 day -1 and 0.87 ; 1.92 ; 2.32 ). Coefficient of determination R 2 is used to verify the respective models to yield values of ( ) for Kincannon model and ( ) for Monod model.
The study outlines a frequency distribution study on the highest annual flood statistics in Niger River located at Shintaku hydrologic Station for period of 58years. In order to determine the optimal model for highest annual flood analysis Generalised extreme value, Log normal, Gumbel maximum, Generalised Pareto and Log Pearson III, were tested. Based on error produced by criteria of goodness of Fit tests, the optimal model was determined. Results obtained indicated that Log Pearson type III was best to model maximum flood magnitude of Niger River at Shintaku station. The flood frequency curve was therefore derived using Log Pearson type III frequency distribution. Flood frequency curve showed that return periods of 50 and 100 years with the probabilities of 2% and1% respectively, yielded discharges of 15300m3/s and 15600m3/s respectively. These results were strongly influenced by their topographical, geographical and climatic factors. The findings of this work will be useful for design engineers in deciding the dimension of hydraulic structures such as spillway, dams, canals, bridges and levees among others. Future studies are required to include flood forecasting in the development of inundation maps for Niger River.Keywords—Return period, Frequency Distribution, Flood, Niger River, Flood Modeling
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