Lumped Approach to a Multi-Period–Multi-Reservoir Cyclic Storage System Optimization

Cyclic storage system (CSS) refers to the joint development and operation of surface impoundment and subsurface subsystems with natural and physical interaction and a prespecified operating rule which manages the inter-relation between different components of the system. This paper presents a lumped modeling approach to a generalized large scale cyclic storage system. The model is capable to optimally design and operate a cyclic system in an irrigable area. The excitation units with pronounced impact and a complexity of the semi-distributed model are replaced with approximated lumped functions, while maintaining a desirable level of accuracy in the system’s performance in a long-term planning horizon. The proposed model has a MINLP structure, which is solved using powerful well-known LINGO solver. Design capacities of different components of the system and the associated operating rules parameters are considered as decision variables that minimize total cost of operating costs over the planning horizon. Extensive simulation runs show that the derived operating rules perform quite satisfactory with non-significant deficits over the entire horizon. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008