Download or read book Flow Methods to Estimate Flow for Ungauged Catchments for the Development of Small Hydroelectric Power in Northern California Watersheds written by Bikash Pradham and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demand for energy is increasing daily. Currently, non-renewable energy is used to meet much of the energy demand. Nonrenewable resources cause an increase in atmospheric carbon concentration and are a significant cause of climate change. Governments throughout the world are supporting the use of renewable sources by providing financial and legislative support to reduce the carbon footprint in energy generation. In addition, having a variety of renewable energy sources in the portfolio would also complement each other, thereby providing a continuous supply of electricity to the people. Redwood Coast Energy Authority is a local government Joint Powers Agency in Humboldt County, California. The agency supports an assessment of the potential for small-scale hydropower to facilitate the development of small hydroelectric projects in Northern California Watersheds for a more complete renewable energy portfolio. Evaluating the appropriateness of developing a preliminary guideline for a small run-of-the-river hydropower production requires consideration of not only the river hydrology and topography but many other related criteria that will impact the project. This thesis will not address all critical components needed to decide whether to move forward with hydroelectric development but will focus on generating appropriate flow data using techniques like the drainage area ratio method (RAM), lumped modeling (L), semi-lumped modeling (SL), and distributed modeling. The analysis showed reliable results for all the catchments considered under the case study with different potential generation outputs. Results also showed how each flow estimation method performed, and the results looked very similar to one another. In addition, the analysis also showed that the best time for power generation is between the months of November through March, and the sites have almost no power potential in the summer months, especially for the months of July through September. Overall, the results were very similar and showed similar trends where the models were unable to predict the very high flows that usually occur in December but were able to predict flows in the remaining time very well when compared with the observed data.
Download or read book Analysis of Methods Used to Estimate and Monitor Stream Flow at Six Small Hydroelectric Power Facilities in Northern California written by Catherine L. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Estimating Peak Flow Frequencies for Natural Ungaged Watersheds written by Water Resources Council (U.S.). Hydrology Committee and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soil Conservation Service Curve Number SCS CN Methodology written by S.K. Mishra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soil Conservation Service (SCS) curve number (CN) method is one of the most popular methods for computing the runoff volume from a rainstorm. It is popular because it is simple, easy to understand and apply, and stable, and accounts for most of the runoff producing watershed characteristics, such as soil type, land use, hydrologic condition, and antecedent moisture condition. The SCS-CN method was originally developed for its use on small agricultural watersheds and has since been extended and applied to rural, forest and urban watersheds. Since the inception of the method, it has been applied to a wide range of environments. In recent years, the method has received much attention in the hydrologic literature. The SCS-CN method was first published in 1956 in Section-4 of the National Engineering Handbook of Soil Conservation Service (now called the Natural Resources Conservation Service), U. S. Department of Agriculture. The publication has since been revised several times. However, the contents of the methodology have been nonetheless more or less the same. Being an agency methodology, the method has not passed through the process of a peer review and is, in general, accepted in the form it exists. Despite several limitations of the method and even questionable credibility at times, it has been in continuous use for the simple reason that it works fairly well at the field level.
Download or read book Methods for Estimating Low Flow Characteristics of Ungaged Streams in Selected Areas written by R. P. Rumenik, J. W. Grubbs and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Estimation of flow duration curves for use in hydropower development for ungauged or partially gauged subbasins in the Kabul River basin Afghanistan written by Muhammad Tariq Nasery and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Determining Instream Flow Needs written by United States. Interagency Task Force--Instream Flows and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flow Estimation Methods for Small Urban Catchments Final Report written by Wallingford HydroSolutions Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Methods and Standards for the Measurement of Water Flow written by Gershon Kulin and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Streamflow Characteristics written by H.C. Riggs and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliable estimates of streamflow characteristics are needed for planning, design, and operation of works for providing water supplies and for protection from flooding. This book brings together some of the most useful estimation methods - those that are simple, practical, and require only commonly available or readily obtainable data, and which give results comparable in accuracy with those derived from more sophisticated methods. The author describes how streamflow data are collected, how the characteristics are computed, how they are changed by man's activities, and how they are used in planning and design. Chapters describing statistical principles and techniques, and the effects of various climatic and physiographic factors on streamflow are included. The analytical methods are described in sufficient detail that the reader can apply them to his data. Further applications and other techniques are referred to in bibliographies.
Download or read book Water Resources Research Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins written by Günter Blöschl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predicting water runoff in ungauged water catchment areas is vital to practical applications such as the design of drainage infrastructure and flooding defences, runoff forecasting, and for catchment management tasks such as water allocation and climate impact analysis. This full colour book offers an impressive synthesis of decades of international research, forming a holistic approach to catchment hydrology and providing a one-stop resource for hydrologists in both developed and developing countries. Topics include data for runoff regionalisation, the prediction of runoff hydrographs, flow duration curves, flow paths and residence times, annual and seasonal runoff, and floods. Illustrated with many case studies and including a final chapter on recommendations for researchers and practitioners, this book is written by expert authors involved in the prestigious IAHS PUB initiative. It is a key resource for academic researchers and professionals in the fields of hydrology, hydrogeology, ecology, geography, soil science, and environmental and civil engineering.
Download or read book Development of Regression Equations to Estimate Flow Durations and Low flow frequency Statistics in New Hampshire Streams written by Robert H. Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Streamflow Gains and Losses and Selected Flow Characteristics of Cottonwood Creek North central California 1982 85 written by J. C. Blodgett and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Flow Assessment written by John G. Williams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides critiques of current practices for environmental flow assessment and shows how they can be improved, using case studies. In Environmental Flow Assessment: Methods and Applications, four leading experts critique methods used to manage flows in regulated streams and rivers to balance environmental (instream) and out-of-stream uses of water. Intended for managers as well as practitioners, the book dissects the shortcomings of commonly used approaches, and offers practical advice for selecting and implementing better ones. The authors argue that methods for environmental flow assessment (EFA) can be defensible as well as practicable only if they squarely address uncertainty, and provide guidance for doing so. Introductory chapters describe the scientific and social reasons that EFA is hard, and provide a brief history. Because management of regulated streams starts with understanding freshwater ecosystems, Environmental Flow Assessment: Methods and Applications includes chapters on flow and organisms in streams. The following chapters assess standard and emerging methods, how they should be tested, and how they should (or should not) be applied. The book concludes with practical recommendations for implementing environmental flow assessment. Describes historical and recent trends in environmental flow assessment Directly addresses practical difficulties with applying a scientifically informed approach in contentious circumstances Serves as an effective introduction to the relevant literature, with many references to articles in related scientific fields Pays close attention to statistical issues such as sampling, estimation of statistical uncertainty, and model selection Includes recommendations for methods and approaches Examines how methods have been tested in the past and shows how they should be tested today and in the future Environmental Flow Assessment: Methods and Applications is an excellent book for biologists and specialists in allied fields such as engineering, ecology, fluvial geomorphology, environmental planning, landscape architecture, along with river managers and decision makers.
Download or read book Evaluation of methods used for estimating selected streamflow statistics and flood frequency and magnitude for small basins in north coastal California written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
