Probabilistic flow duration curves for small hydro plant design and performance evaluation

Water Resources Management

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 509-523

  Niadas, Ioannis A ^a   Mentzelopoulos, Panos G ^b  

^a Z and A P Antonaropoulos and Associates SA   (Greece)

^b P Mentzelopoulos Engineering Consulting   (Greece)

Author keywords

Energy output; Environmental flow; Financial risk; Flow duration curve; Log normal distribution; Probabilistic flow model; Small hydro plants

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; HYDROLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

FLOW DURATION CURVE; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

ECONOMICS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; HYDROLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

FLOW MODELING; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY;

EID: 40549096060     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-007-9175-y     Document Type: Article

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