Selecting a small run-of-river hydropower plan by the analytic hierarchy process (AHP): A case study of Miño-Sil river basin, Spain
| Autor: | Pablo Sebastián Ferrer-Gisbert, José Luis Fuentes-Bargues |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Small hydropower plants
Engineering Small hydro Environmental Engineering Enginyeria hidràulica Enginyeria elèctrica Analytic hierarchy process Process (engineering) business.industry Management Monitoring Policy and Law Expertchoice Civil engineering Work (electrical) Hydroelectricity Run-of-river Streamflow Electricity Energies renovables business PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA Hydropower Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Fuentes Bargues, José Luis Ferrer-Gisbert, Pablo Sebastián 2015 Selecting a small run-of-river hydropower plan by the analytic hierarchy process (AHP): A case study of Miño-Sil river basin, Spain Ecological Engineering 85 307 316 RODERIC. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia instname RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Popis: | Hydroelectric power is obtained by harnessing the potential energy of a mass of water flowing along a river bed to convert it first into mechanical and then into electrical energy. The system is therefore both clean and autonomous and has a high potential for development. A small hydropower plant has an installed power capacity of below 10 MW and is considered run-of-river when it diverts part of a river flow to generate its electricity. The use of multicriteria techniques in environmental decision making, including selecting between various alternatives, is important when it involves complex decisions in a number of disciplinary fields. The most widely used of these techniques is the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). This work proposes an application of the AHP method to select the best alternative for the installation of a small run-of-river hydropower plant. The systemization of the process, together with its mathematical rigor, means the best project will be selected from the available technical, economic and environmental alternatives. The main criteria identified in this study for the selection of RoR plant are: protected fauna, fish population, water quality, landscape quality, flow regime and vegetation. Finally, the best alternative was the project of the company Energia of Galicia. The translation of this paper was funded by the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. |
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