Operação integrada ótima do sistema hídrico Jucazinho-Carpina, para múltiplos usos - rio Capibaribe-PE.

Abstract

The not utilization in its full potential of the reservoirs in the Northeast of Brazil, especially in its semi-arid area, derives, most of the time, of the absence of an appropriate handling and the fear of empty them. The motivation for this work was the achievement of a more rational use of the water resources and the search of the maximization of the benefits generated by the hydraulic uses already existent, so that the population of that area can be better assisted. In this context, it is studied the operation of the water resource system formed by the reservoirs Jucazinho and Carpina, and three irrigation sites, located in the basin of the Capibaribe river, in Pernambuco, North-east Brazil, with the objective of maximizing the net income generated by the irrigated agriculture and fish farming, respecting the needs of water for urban uses, flow and flood control. To analyze the behavior of the water resources system in order to obtain an optimal solution for its operation, was applied an optimization model called ORNAP (Curi and Curi, 1999), of monthly base, based on a nonlinear optimization technique. The objective function that seeks the maximization of the profit of the irrigated agricultural and and extensive fishing activities, is subject to several constraints, represented by equations of linear and non linear nature that accounts, in the optimization process, at monthly level, for the physical limitations of the reservoirs, perimeters and hydraulics equipment, hydrological limitations, legal, economical and social requirements, that are inherent of water resource systems of multiple uses. A deterministic approach was necessary, where the future was idealized through planning scenarios, characterized by three different climate situations (average, dry and rainy). The optimal values assumed by the several decision variables, such as discharges of the reservoirs and irrigated areas for each crop, are generated for each climatic situation, taking in account the several operational aspects adopted for the reservoirs Jucazinho and Carpina. The optimization study showed that, respected the imposed operational constraints, in this study, the maximum areas cogitated for the perimeters would not be totally irrigated. The reached results show the viability of the model ORNAP for the planning and management of reservoirs and irrigated sites, constituting in an interesting tool for a decision support system.