Print Email Facebook Twitter Design and modeling of reservoir operation strategies for sediment management Title Design and modeling of reservoir operation strategies for sediment management Author Sloff, C.J. Omer, A.Y.A. Heynert, K.V. Mohamed, Y.A. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2015-08-30 Abstract Appropriate operation strategies that allow for sediment flushing and sluicing (sediment routing) can reduce rapid storage losses of (hydropower and water-supply) reservoirs. In this study we have shown, using field observations and computational models, that the efficiency of these operations increases when utilizing dynamics of flow and sediment movement. For instance, operating at a minimum level during the sediment-laden high flows at the start of the flood season, and a rapid short draw-down flushing event later-on, allows much of the incoming sediments to pass the reservoir. Hence, operations can be more effective when using the dynamics of the high river flows, arrival of suspension peaks, and timing of emptying and filling of the reservoir. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6c971342-7acf-4bd6-8379-50a93a38a0d4 Source RCEM 2015: 9th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, Iquitos, Peru, 30 August-3 September 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 320450.pdf 6.44 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6c971342-7acf-4bd6-8379-50a93a38a0d4/datastream/OBJ/view