Mathematical Modeling of Maheshwar Hydro-Electric Plant at Narmada River

Abstract

Economic hydropower plant generation scheduling is an important feature from the utility point of view, this scheduling is more important in that case when the plants are at the same river stream & owned by the different utilities. Various Conventional & Artificial intelligence methods have been used earlier for the hydro generation scheduling reported through researches and more, all are of them required the mathematical modeling of each & every hydro power plant.Theoretical account of problem solving in general and especially methodology to develop the mathematical models of the hydroelectric power plants has been described in this paper. Reservoir elevation model, tail race elevation model and hydro turbine model have been developed for Rani Avanti Bai Sagar river bed hydroelectric power plants by collating actual plant data from competent authorities. Modeling of canal head hydroelectric power plants have been also included in this paper. This hydro power project is a part of cascade scheme at Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh, India.