Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2000. Conference Record of the Twenty-Eighth IEEE
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5772-8
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2000.916207
