The PV-powered DC floating pump system-a new revolution

Author

Surendra, T.S. ; Prakash, P.N. ; Shrikanth, J.

Author_Institution

Suryovonics Ltd., Hyderabad, India

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1611

Lastpage

1613

Abstract

The PV powered DC floating pump offers new hope for at least two million small farmers in India for meeting their irrigation water needs from open wells. A six-year 200-PV-pump demonstration program in the Southern States of India by the Polyene Group has established that the DC floating pump (600 to 860 Wp capacity), powered by amorphous silicon PV modules, is ideally suited for open well irrigation up to 5 acres of land. Design changes and product improvements carried out to the Polyene DC Floating pump system, over the last six years, on the basis of field performance/feedback, have also been profiled in the paper

Keywords

DC motors; amorphous semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; pumps; silicon; solar cell arrays; water supply; 200-PV-pump demonstration program; 600 to 860 W; DC floating pump; DC motors; India; PV-powered DC floating pump system; Polyene DC Floating pump system; Polyene Group; Si; Southern States; amorphous silicon PV modules; field performance; irrigation water needs; small farmers; Amorphous silicon; Costs; Feedback; Government; Irrigation; Power distribution; Power generation; Product design; Seals; Thermal pollution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2000. Conference Record of the Twenty-Eighth IEEE

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5772-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2000.916207

Filename

916207