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Multi-Objective Quantity–Quality Reservoir Operation in Sudden Pollution

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Damage caused by entered pollution in reservoirs can affect a water resource system in two ways: (1) Damages that are caused due to consumption of polluted water and (2) damages that are caused due to insufficient water allocation. Those damages conflict with each other. Thus, the crisis should be managed in a way that the least damage occurs in the water resource system. This paper investigates crisis management due to the sudden entrance of a 30 m3 methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) load to the Karaj dam in Iran, which supplies municipal water to the cities of Tehran and Karaj. To simulate MTBE advection, dispersion, and vaporization, the latter process is added to the CE-QUAL-W2 model. After that, the multi-objective NSGAII-ALANN algorithm, which is a combination of the NSGAII optimization method along with a multi layer perceptron (MLP), which is one of the most widely used artificial neural network (ANN) structures, is employed to extract the best set of decisions in which the two aforementioned damages are minimized. By assigning a specific importance to each objective function, after extracting the optimal solutions, it is possible to choose one of the solutions with the least damage. Four scenarios of entering pollution to the Karaj reservoir the first day of each season are considered, resulting in a Pareto set of operation policies for each scenario. Results of the proposed methodology indicate that if the pollution enters the reservoir in summer, by using one of the optimal policies extracted from the Pareto set of the 2nd Scenario, by a 36 % reduction in meeting the demand, allocated pollution decreases to about 60 %. In other seasons, there is a significant decrease in allocated pollution with a smaller reduction in the met demand.

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  1. Department of Irrigation & Reclamation, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Tehran, Iran

    Ashkan Shokri & Omid Bozorg Haddad

  2. Department of Land, Air & Water Resources, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, University of California, 139 Veihmeyer Hall, Davis, CA, 95616-8628, USA

    Miguel A. Mariño

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Shokri, A., Bozorg Haddad, O. & Mariño, M.A. Multi-Objective Quantity–Quality Reservoir Operation in Sudden Pollution. Water Resour Manage 28, 567–586 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-013-0504-z

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