Site location analysis for small hydropower using geo-spatial information system

Yi, Choong-Sung; Lee, Jin‐Hee; Shim, Myung-Pil

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2009.08.003

Cited by 100 publications

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“…Site feasibility and power generation potential are usually the two main concerns (Ramachandra et al, 2004;Dudhani et al, 2006;Coskun et al, 2010;Kusre et al, 2010;Cyr et al, 2011), with only occasional treatment of environmental aspects (Lee et al, 2008;Rojanamon et al, 2009;Yi et al, 2010). A good example is the study by Yi et al (2010), which uses a combination of hydrologic, topographic, and environmental criteria to rate the suitability of candidate SHP sites. Using a case study area in South Korea, a small set of promising locations for reservoir and run-of-river type SHPs is identi ed by performing a series of geospatial data processing steps.…”

Section: Hydropower Locationmentioning

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Eco-friendly location of small hydropower

Ioannidou

O’Hanley

2018

European Journal of Operational Research

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We address the problem of locating small hydropower dams in an environmentally friendly manner. We propose the use of a multi-objective optimization model to maximize total hydropower production, while limiting negative impacts on river connectivity. Critically, we consider the so called backwater e ects that dams have on power generation at nearby upstream sites via changes in water surface pro les. We further account for the likelihood that migratory sh and other aquatic species can successfully pass hydropower dams and other arti cial/natural barriers and how this is in uenced by backwater e ects.Although naturally represented in nonlinear form, we manage through a series of linearization steps to formulate a mixed integer linear programing model. We illustrate the utility of our proposed framework using a case study from England and Wales. Interestingly, we show that for England and Wales, a region heavily impacted by a large number of existing river barriers, that installation of small hydropower dams tted with even moderately e ective sh passes can, in fact, create a win-win situation that results in increased hydropower and improved river connectivity.

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Section: Hydropower Locationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eco-friendly location of small hydropower

Ioannidou

O’Hanley

2018

European Journal of Operational Research

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“…Those technologies have been employed in different countries in order to locate and select hydropower opportunities of different types, such as pumped hydroelectric energy storages in Ireland [18], small runof-the-river projects in Thailand [2], US [17] and Brazil [15], and storage capacity dams in India [1], Brazil [19], South Korea [3] and South Africa [5].…”

Section: Gis Technologies For Hydropower Survey Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The lookup neighborhood is defined by a circular area around the axis of the dam, as adopted by Rojanamon et al [2] and Yi et al [3]. Its radius is one of the parameters of the methodology and can be interpreted as the maximum headrace length admitted in the basin.…”

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Gis-based procedures for hydropower potential spotting

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“…The elevation difference obtained within each reach (or arbitrary river segment as in Kusre et al [17]) is then multiplied by the area of its contributing catchment and a regional runoff parameter. In a more sophisticated approach, Yi et al [18] implemented a cell-bycell search algorithm along the drainage network. Unlike previous approaches, the method allows for water diversions from lower to higher order streams and identifies potential (straight line) waterways from each stream pixel within a series of predefined search radii.…”

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