Solar Powered Water Pumping System

This paper conclude that renewable energy sources (RESs) play a vital role in reducing the consumption of conventional energy sources and its environmental impacts for water pumping applications. Agricultural technology is changing rapidly. Fast machinery, farm building and production facility are constantly being improved. Agricultural application suitable for photovoltaic (PV) solutions are numerous. The recommended model takes into account the submodels of the pumping system and uses two optimization criteria, the loss of power supply probability (LPSP) concept for the reliability and the life cycle cost (LCC) for the economic evaluation. The applications are a mix of individual installation and system installed by utility companies when they have found that a PV is the best solution for remote agricultural need such as water pumping for crop irrigation or livestock. A solar powered water pumping system is made up of two basic components. These are Photovoltaic panels and water pumps. The smallest element of PV panel is the solar cell. Each solar cell has two or more specially prepared layer of semiconductor material that produces direct current (DC) electricity when exposed to sun light. This direct current is collected by the wiring in the panel. It is then supplied either to a DC pump, which in turn pumps water whenever the sun shines. The energy stored in batteries for later use by the pump. The aim of this article is to explain how solar powered water pumping system works and what the differences with the other energy sources are.