From flood control to energy production - experiences as an intermadiary

1. From Flood Control to Energy Production –
Experiences as an Intermediary
Delft-FEWS User Days 28 / 29 October 2015
Oliver Buchholz
Benedikt Sommer  Presentation in the hall
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2. Agenda
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Introduction to Hydrotec
and FEWS team
Activity and project overview
Selected aspects
Final remarks
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3. Where do we come from?
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Germany
Aachen
Netherlands
Belgium
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4. Visit us: www.hydrotec.de
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Founded 30 years ago
Aachen, Essen
Ca. 60 employees
Hydrology
Hydraulics (1D, 2D, 3D)
Flood risk management
Flood protection
Flood forecast
Urban flash floods
GIS/DB/WEB
Software developement
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5. Hydrotec Products and Partners
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Partners
Dr. Nujic/Dr. Hunziker
HYDRO_AS-2D/HYDRO_FT-2D
Aquaveo
SMS – Surface Modelling
Solution
Deltares
Delft-FEWS
SOBEK
ESRI
ArcGIS for Desktop
ORACLE
Partner Network
Simulation
Hydro_AS-2D – 2D-Hydrodynamic
Jabron – 1D-Hydraulic
NASIM – Rainfall-Runoff-Model
TimeView – Time Series Management
LWAFLUT – Quality and waste water
GIS & Information systems
WWI – Water Resources Management Infosystem
QUIS – Dams&Weirs Information system
MIP – eGovernment - System for Budgeting
FIS – Fishery Information System
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6. Map of Delft-FEWS Projects
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Stand-Alone-System
Client-Server-System
Germany
Austria
Turkey

7. What have we done so far with Delft-FEWS
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LUGV Brandenburg SA, since 2009, Helpdesk
BR Arnsberg SA, 2010, (Mr. Vahle)
BfG 2010, 2014 Configuration FEWS-DE
Waterboards NRW CS, since 2010, S&M, (Mr. Heinenberg)
Verbund, Austria CS (Deltares), since 2013, S&M, (Mr. Haberl)
via donau, Austria CS, since 2012, S&M
EnerjiSA, Turkey SA, 2013 - 2015
LTV Sachsen Pilot 2013, SA 2014, CS 2015
BSH (coastal system) CS, Start November 2015
SA: Stand Alone
CS: Client-Server System
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Oliver
Buchholz
Benedikt
Sommer
Tim
Ochter-
beck
Thomas
Bürvenich
Frank
Hansche
Team Leader Configuration,
Helpdesk
System - Set Up
Technical Support
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Delft-FEWS Team at Hydrotec
Michael
Bellinghausen
Florian
Pauquet
Rebeca
Kasper
Werner
Müller
Programming

9. What services do we provide as an intermediary?
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System design and set up
Providing end user licenses
Installation of client-server-systems, hosting
Model/module set up and integration (hydrology,
hydraulics, RTC)
Programming of model adapters
Special configuration tasks (reports, …)
Support and Maintenance, Helpdesk
2nd level support by Deltares
Training and Consulting,
Failover concepts
Data management
Providing the link to Deltares

10. Ticket System at Hydrotec
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Helpdesk
Organizing the communication with the users
Guarantee of system availability
Offering additional services on a
hourly basis
i.e. changes to the configuration
advices by telephone and e-mail
Ticket system (Lotus Notes)
All incoming requests get a number, a status, ..
All communication documents
are linked to the ticket number
Automatic linkage to our hour tracking for billing
Ticketsystem within Lotus Notes

11. Reports / Exports
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Distribution of data and forecast results
Pictures or animated gifs for web pages
Automatic updating of web pages
Export of formatted PDF reports
Updating of formatted word documents
Programming of additional tools
Running within automated workflows

12. Delft-FEWS Waterboards NRW
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Motivation
Five waterboards share a data-server and a client-server-system
Processing and visualization of DWD data and own weather and
hydrological data
Flood forecast based on different model runs for internal
warnings
User Administration
9 groups of multiple users
regular user, specialist for each waterboard
Every user sees different displays, filters and shortcuts
SMS warning
Radar data and rainfall forecasts
Text message with customized content
Warning for catchments and single cells
Determination of dry weather period
Environemental release

13. Grid / Radar data in NRW System
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9 radar products (1.5 GB per day)
Different spatial extents (stations, composites)
Different time steps (5 min – 1h)
Different units (precipitation, reflections)
RQ (2 h, radar based forecast)
NW forecasts (1.7 GB per day)
COSMO-DE (27 h)
COSMO-DE-EPS (27 h, 20 ensembles)
ICON-EU (76 h)
COSMO-LEPS (132 h, 16 ensembles)
ICON (168 h)
SNOW4 (76 h)
ICON spatial extent
DX Radar Essen ICON-EU COSMO-DEICON

14. ProVis Verbund AG
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Motivation
¾ of installed capcity from HP (7700 MW)
Forecast of energy production from water power
Sources
Forecasts of discharge and wind power
Realisation
client-server-system (3 systems P / T / FO)
at different office locations
Client
Verbund AG, Vienna (80 user)
Modelling (130 models)
Hydraulic stream flow
Hydrology (124.000 km²)
Statistic models
hourly model runs ProVis Map Display

15. Task: Power Forecast over 72 h for River Inn
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Discharge
COSERO
HEC RASOperation rules
P = f (QT, H)
Turbine availability

16. Predictive Control for Reservoir Eibenstock, LTV
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RTC-Tools
Substitute model for optimization
Pool-Routing
Optimizer: IPOPT
Eibenstock
Schwarzwasser
Inflow
Q of intermediate catchment
Aue1
Zwickauer Mulde
Discharge objective
Aue3
Zwickauer Mulde
Zwickauer Mulde
Control parameter
Outflow
Objective and constraints:
QAue3 < 210 m³/s
head water level = 536,66 mNHN
Qoutflow < 54 m³/s
Head water
objective

17. Simulations with Perfect Forecasts
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Closed Loop1
Tests of forecast
horizons:
No improvement with
horizons of 3 days or less
max. reduction Qmax = 30
m³/s
Time of exceedance is
decreased
Qobjective = 210 m³/s,
47 h  29 h

18. Final remarks
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What do you need as an intermediary?
Solid background in water resources management and ICT
Highly motivated and trained team
Customers interested in lasting solutions
Reliable (technical and organizational) support
as provided by Deltares
Community to share ideas and experiences with

19. Thank you for your attention
any questions?
Delft-FEWS User Days 28 / 29 October 2015
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