Maintenance, upgrading and extension of the Decision Support System for the management of the Athens water resource system
Duration: October 2008–November 2011
Budget: €72 000
Project director: N. Mamassis
Principal investigator: D. Koutsoyiannis
This research project includes the maintenance, upgrading and extension of the Decision Support System that developed by NTUA for EYDAP in the framework of the research project “Updating of the supervision and management of the water resources’ system for the water supply of the Athens’ metropolitan area”. The project is consisted of the following parts: (a) Upgrading of the Data Base, (b)Upgrading and extension of hydrometeorological network, (c) upgrading of the hydrometeorological data process software, (d) upgrading and extension of the Hydronomeas software, (e) hydrological data analysis and (f) support to the preparation of the annual master plans
C. Ntemiroglou, Optimization of the management of hydroelectric reservoir gates - Application to Arachthos dam, Diploma thesis, 164 pages, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, November 2020.
Hydroelectric works are equipped with spillway gates are advantageous, since they ensure an increased hydrodynamic potential, which favors in turn the produced energy. However, in the case of a flood event, careful manipulations are essential, to assure the safety of the dam and the downstream works. These are usually employed on the basis of operation rules that are derived empirically, and not as result of a systematic methology that accounts for the flood regime of the study area as well as the complex process that are taken into place during the flood routing. The objective of this thesis is the development of a novel approach for gate management that combines stochastic simulation and multicriteria optimization, applied to the particularly crucial dam of Pournari I, at Arachthos River. Key component is a numerical scheme for flood routing, which implements a hydraulically consistent method for extracting the flow-stage relationship through ogee-type spillways, and a simulation procedure for the manipulation of gates and turbines, using characteristic level thresholds during the rising and fallinf of a flood hydrograph. By employing the aforementioned methologies at Pournari dam, we determined the aforementioned methologies at Pournari dam, we determined operation rule initially for the design flood of 10000 years return period (local rule), and next for a wide spectrum of smaller floods that have been synthetically generated. Starting from the local rule, we emphasized the investigation of competitiveness between the energy and safety criteria, in order to outcome to a compromise formulation of the optimization problem. Next, from the stochastic analyses we concluded to six operation rules, which refer to flood events of small and large return period, and three initial stage scenarios. In these analyses, we gave further weight to economy (i.e. minimization of energy losses due to spill), in contrast to the local rule, which is conservative as it focuses to the safety of the dam and the downstream works. The most representative rule has been applied to the flood event of year 2005, and its performance proved to be comparative with the successful manipulations by the expertise personnel of PCC.
Full text:
V. Bellos, P. Kossieris, I. Papakonstantis, P. Papanicolaou, C. Ntemiroglou, and A. Efstratiadis, [No English title available], Modernization of the management of the water supply system of Athens - Update, 46 pages, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering – National Technical University of Athens, November 2022.
Related project: Modernization of the management of the water supply system of Athens - Update