Flood Risk Prediction for a Hydropower System using Artificial Neural Network

Abstract

Hydropower scheme would experience issue relating to high flooding especially at low lying area due to extreme raining season. To mitigate the potential risk of flooding and improve the hydroelectric regulation, a flow prediction is needed to estimate the discharge of water flow at hydroelectric reservoirs. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model were used in this research to forecast the water discharge of hydroelectric station. The discharge flow predictions were made based on fore bay elevation, inflow and the discharge of water flow. Elman Neural Network architecture was selected as ANN method and its performance was evaluated by considering the number of hidden nodes and training methods. ANN model performance were assessed using performance metrics such as Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Square Error (MSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Sum Square Error (SSE). The result indicate that ANN model showed the best applicability for discharge prediction with small performance metric.