UM-16 : Storage yield analysis

Abstract

The analysis of storage-reliability-yield relationship is important to provide preliminary design capacity or yield estimates for storage reservoirs governed by requirements over a period. Traditionally, Rippl's mass curve approach or its automated equivalent sequent peak algorithm have been used to obtain a single estimate of design capacity of reservoir with implied reliability as unity. In this report, simulation technique has been used to develop the storage-yield relationship for a single purpose-single reservoir taking reliability as a factor in capacity computation. Fibonacci method of unidimensional search has been employed to achieve the desired reliability. The developed program also performs reservoir operation computations. A test input and corresponding results have been given to demonstrate the methodology used in this report.