River basins are key components of water supply grids. River basin operators must handle a complex set of objectives including runoff storage, flood control, supply for consumptive use, hydroelectric power generation, silting management, and maintenance of river basin ecology. At present, operators rely on a combination of simulation and optimization tools to help them make operational decision...

This work is part of an industrial project between the ALCAN Ltd group and CRIM, a research center. It was supported by a joint grant from ALCAN Ltd and NSERC, operation grant #CRDPJ 228746-99. Abstract. A software product is expected to fulfill some need and meet some acceptance standards that dictate the qualities it must have. This paper presents a reengineering work tending to increase to a...

During the last two decades, an evolving market structure is recognised starting from the spot market and its derivatives, resulting to several other markets such as the Intraday Market (IM), the Balancing Market (BM) and the Reserve Capacity Market (RCM). The participation in these markets has changed significantly the operation policy of the plants and, consequently, their value in the market...

In this study the electric power generation from the Kayabogazi Dam has been investigated using Fuzzy logic algorithm to optimize the required power demand. In the implementation of the algorithm the real data recorded by the State Water Works (DSI) which is representing monthly average water flow to the Kayabogazi Dam has been used. An easy and operator friendly control algorithm has been deve...

This paper presents a new approach to acquire a knowledge base (MKB) of continuous processes through a distributed system. The proposed methodology combines MKB and case-based reasoning (CBR) for adaptive knowledge base creation, maintenance and updating trough the use of an architecture with the following aspects: i) distributed architecture network; ii) real-time operation; iii) advanced visu...

In a hydroelectric power plant or in a pumping station in order to avoid sudden large increase of pressure due to instantaneous valve closure sometimes a surge tank is installed. The height of surge tank is designed by the highest possible water level during the operation. The theoretical treatment of oscillation in a surge tank is difficult because of the non-linearity of friction term in the ...