INVESTIGATION OF HYDROPOWER GENERATION FROM IRRIGATION DAMS

Year 2018, Volume: 19 Issue: 2, 443 - 453, 30.06.2018

Recep Bakış Yıldırım Bayazıt Cengiz Koç Dost Mohammad Ahmady

https://doi.org/10.18038/aubtda.368219

Abstract

Evaluation of renewable energy
resource is very important for Turkey. As geodetic and fossil energy that
Turkey owns is insufficient and do not meet the demand. For this reason, tending
towards hydro-electric power is an applicable option and is one of the most
important energy resource for the country. From water resources point of view,
water potential of large and small streams, for the purpose of energy
production is vital for the country. Thereby, the existing deficit gap relevant
to the energy, is reduceable.

 

Within
this paper, Seydisuyu basin has been selected as the research area.
Precipitation in the basin is drained by Seydisuyu stream. Only two dams named
as Kunduzlar and Çatören, were constructed and are currently in operation in
the basin. These dams were built for the purposes of only irrigation and flood
control, in the basin. Water potential of the basin is very small, due to the
slight amount of precipitation within that area. Accordingly, planning of only
small-scale hydro-electric energy potential is considerable over these dams, for
region/national economic advantage of the country. In this study, the hydro-electric
power potential of these two existing dams, were investigated. For this
purpose, using 19 years of monthly data discharging from six existing flow
gauging stations in the basin, the amount of hydroelectric energy generation of
these dams was analyzed individually. As the result of these analysis, the
calculation of the annual energy production capacity, the installed power
production, and the annual economic contribution for both Çatören and Kunduzlar dams were
estimated as 4.14 GWh (2.15 GWh (Çatören) + 1.99 GWh (Kunduzlar)),
0.843 MW (0.273 MW (Çatören) + 0.57 MW (Kunduzlar)), and 495000 USD (257000
USD (Çatören) + 238000 USD (Kunduzlar)), respectively.

Keywords

Renewable energy; Hydro-electric power; Water resources; Water potential; Seydisuyu basin

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