Study on the effect of water temperature in a hybrid pumped storage power station
[Objective]The research on the water temperature structure of reservoirs of conventional power stations mainly focuses on the effect of climate change,without considering the effect of pumping on the water temperature structure of reservoirs,and there are less researches on the water temperature structure of reservoirs of pumped storage power stations,in order to make clea-rer the effect of pumping on the water temperature of reservoirs.[Methods]Taking the upper Jinsha River Yebatan hybrid pumped storage power station as the research object,the CE-QUAL-W2 model was used to simulate the reservoir surface water temperature,the discharge water temperature and the bottom water temperature,and to analyze the changes of the water tempera-ture in the upper and lower reservoirs before and after the mixing and storage,in order to elucidate the influence of the hybrid pumped storage hydropower station on the water temperature.[Results]The result show that:the maximum variation of surface water temperature before and after pumped storage in Yebatan was 5.8℃,the maximum variation of bottom water temperature was 2.8 ℃,and the maximum variation of discharge water temperature was 0.3 ℃;the maximum variation of surface water tem-perature before and after pumped storage in Lawa was 1.8 ℃,the maximum variation of bottom water temperature was 0.1 ℃,and the maximum variation of discharge water temperature was 0.2 ℃.[Conclusion]The result show that:(1)pumped storage had a franking effect on the surface water temperature,strengthened the mixing of the middle water body,and increased the am-plitude of the variation of the bottom water temperature.(2)The effect of mixed storage on the water temperature of the upper and lower reservoirs was affected by the distance of the reservoirs.(3)The effect of mixed storage on the temperature of the dis-charged water of the upper reservoir Yebatan and the lower reservoir Lawa was not significant.The result of this paper can provide a scientific basis for the water environment protection of hybrid pumped storage power stations.
hybrid pumped storage power stationsurface water temperaturedischarge water temperatureupper and lower res-ervoirsCE-QUAL-W2 modelinfluencing factors