Determination of optimum capacity and operation of reservoirs for irrigation purposes

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, İnşaat Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014

Öğrenci: TAHA EMRE ERDİN

Danışman: AYŞE BURCU ALTAN SAKARYA

Özet:

Agricultural production is one of the most basic requirements of humanity to survive and water is vital for it. Therefore, human beings have been working on water resources giving the necessary importance throughout the history. Problems like irregularities in streams regime, droughts and climate change force to use water more efficiently. In addition, population growth has increased the demand for agricultural water. Nowadays, with the construction of dams for irrigation purposes, these demands can be met in a more efficient manner. However, since the construction of the dam requires large costs, optimal dimensioning of such storage facilities is very significant together with the optimal operation. The main goal of the present study is to design and operate the reservoir of a dam for irrigation purposes, in an optimum manner. Two methods, Enumeration and Generalized Reduced Gradient, are applied and a code is developed in Microsoft Excel for this purpose. Advantages and disadvantages of the two methods used in the developed code were also discussed. The developed code is validated by using reservoir operation data of the Sungurlu Dam that planning works were carried out before. In the present study, three different optimization problems are handled. These are the minimization of the reservoir capacity, the maximization of the irrigation area and the maximization of irrigation area together with the minimization of the reservoir capacity. In addition, developed code is applied by using data of Sungurlu and Yeşilkavak dams.