Enhancing Automated Water Level Control at Navigable Waterways by High-Resolution Weather Predictions

• DOI: 10.29007/tfbm
• Publication Date: 2018-09-20T22:10:10Z
• Authors: Julia Kasper; Georg Pranner; Franz Simons; Michael Denhard; Carsten Thorenz
• Keywords: 0209 industrial biotechnology; 13. Climate action; 02 engineering and technology; 6. Clean water

Heavy rainfall can cause large variations in the water level of navigable waterways when a lot urban runoff is generated on sealed surfaces and discharged into river. Due to climate change, extreme weather events will increase intensity frequency demanding better automated control at impounded waterways. High- resolution forecasts catchment are intended serve as input rainfall- model. Based resulting discharge forecasts, model predictive feed forward controller calculates ideal across barrage. The system completed by PI loop. In this way deviations peaks from stormwater overflow be reduced, which enhances safety shipping. Regarding uncertainties predictions, consequences an underestimated or overestimated investigated.