Impact of Reservoir Evaporation and Evaporation Suppression on Water Supply Capabilities
Title | Impact of Reservoir Evaporation and Evaporation Suppression on Water Supply Capabilities PDF eBook |
Author | Rolando Arnoldo Ayala |
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Release | 2013 |
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Reservoir storage is essential for developing dependable water supplies and is a major component of the river system water budget. The storage contents of reservoirs fluctuate greatly with variations in water use and climatic conditions that range from severe multiple-year droughts to floods. Water surface evaporation typically represents a major component of the reservoir water budget. This thesis investigates the effects of evaporation and potential reductions in this evaporation on the water supply capabilities of reservoirs in Texas. As part of this research, a literature review based assessment of capabilities for reducing reservoir evaporation using monolayer films and other methods was performed. The literature review assessment provides an overview of past evaporation suppression studies performed using monolayer films and other evaporation suppression technologies including water shades and covers. The overview provides a summary on monolayer film application techniques, environmental impacts, operational and material costs, evaluation methods, and achievable evaporation reduction rates. This research project quantifies the impact of reservoir evaporation on water supply availability/reliability by using the Texas Water Availability Modeling (WAM) System which consists of the Water Rights Analysis Package (WRAP) and 21 sets of WRAP input files covering the 23 river basins of the state, a geographic information system (GIS), and contains over 8,000 water rights permits, which include 3,435 reservoirs. The impact of evaporation on water supply availability/reliability was evaluated by performing several analyses in which evaporation rates are reduced by specified percentages starting when storage levels drop below certain trigger percentages of reservoir storage capacity. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149357
Increasing Water Supplies by Suppression of Reservoir Evaporation
Title | Increasing Water Supplies by Suppression of Reservoir Evaporation PDF eBook |
Author | Frank R. Crow |
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Pages | 86 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Insulating materials |
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Water Yield and Reservoir Storage in the United States
Title | Water Yield and Reservoir Storage in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Basil Langbein |
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Pages | 14 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Reservoirs |
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Evaporation Suppression
Title | Evaporation Suppression PDF eBook |
Author | Water Resources Scientific Information Center |
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Pages | 486 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Evaporation control |
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Evaporation of Water With Emphasis on Applications and Measurements
Title | Evaporation of Water With Emphasis on Applications and Measurements PDF eBook |
Author | Frank E. Jones |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2018-01-31 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1351080415 |
The loss of water from lakes, rivers, oceans, vegetation, and the earth, as well as man-made structures such as reservoirs and irrigation conduits, is a major concern of hydrologists and irrigation specialists. This loss, compounded by the lack of usable water in some areas, indicates a need for field and laboratory research that will contribute to the understanding of the processes and parameters that comprise and contribute to evaporation.This book emphasizes the process of the air-water interface and discusses such important topics as evaporation and condensation coefficients of water, heat and mass transfer, surface temperature, interfacial tension, convection, diffusion, thermal gradients, wind-generated waves, and the roles that these processes play in evaporation. The book also discusses subjects such as methods for suppressing evaporation using films, water vapor distribution, wind tunnel investigations, evaporation from water drops, preparation of pure water, molecular diffusion, the eddy-correlation method, and evaporation estimation methods. The book will be of considerable value to hydrologists, irrigation specialists, meteorologists, civil engineers, chemical engineers, hydraulic engineers, water resources specialists, water conservation specialists, geophysicists, environmental engineers, and anyone interested in understanding the evaporation of water and its consequences.
The Impact of New Techniques of Integrated Multiple-purpose Water Development
Title | The Impact of New Techniques of Integrated Multiple-purpose Water Development PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Augustus Ackerman |
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Pages | 114 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Hydraulic engineering |
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Simulated Effects of the 2003 Permitted Withdrawals and Water-management Alternatives on Reservoir Storage and Firm Yields of Three Surface-water Supplies, Ipswich River Basin, Massachusetts
Title | Simulated Effects of the 2003 Permitted Withdrawals and Water-management Alternatives on Reservoir Storage and Firm Yields of Three Surface-water Supplies, Ipswich River Basin, Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip J. Zarriello |
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Pages | 70 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Earth sciences |
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