Shallow water withdrawal systems have been replaced with a selected withdrawal system to keep stable raw water quality in spite of occurrence of algae and muddy inflow. Before reconstruction of the water intake tower in Yongdam reservoir supplying wat...
Shallow water withdrawal systems have been replaced with a selected withdrawal system to keep stable raw water quality in spite of occurrence of algae and muddy inflow. Before reconstruction of the water intake tower in Yongdam reservoir supplying water to Gosan water treatment facility, we have predicted flow patterns of inflowing water into the water intake tower for various withdrawal conditions.
Inflow pattern of water intake tower has been predicted by solving three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with a porous media modeling of an algal fence. In order to prevent the effects from boundary condition, very wide computational domain, where inlet and outlet boundaries are set up away from over 500 m and 220 m respectively, has been used with constant velocity outlet boundary condition corresponding to the flow rate.
Algal fence has been modeled to the 1.0 mm × 1.0 mm filter with 0.5 mm thickness, and the pressure drop has been predicted by CFD with various inlet velocity. From the results, both coefficients of permeability and inertial resistance factor have been estimated for the porous media modeling of the algal fence.
The simulations have been performed for the shallow, intermediate, bottom water withdrawal cases. It has been predicted that the water in the withdrawal layer is significantly inflowed from the front with fast velocity into the water intake tower irrespective of withdrawal depth, while the water away from the withdrawal layer is withdrawed a little from the side with slow velocity.
For a long algal fence of 10 m and 15 m, the inflowed water is diverted under the algal fence due to the pressure drop of the fence. Therefore shallow water is moved from the side of the gate to the front and flowed into the gate, and the ratio of the water from the side of the gate to one from the front is increased as the algal fence is long. The fence effects are more increased for the impermeable algal fence.
As the withdrawal layer is deep, the effects of the fence installed at the surface of the water are decreased, and are disappeared for the bottom water withdrawal case.
It is also predicted that the flow characteristics for large flow rate of 17.4 m3/s is similar to the that of 5 years averaged flow rate of 11.0 m3/s.
Consequently the selective water intake system have to be installed to prevent intake of algae and muddy flow.