SOLAR WATER PUMPING

HAWASSA University INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

CONTROL STREAM

Thesis PROPOSAL ON:

SOLAR WATER PUMPING

BY:

MICHAEL KIDANU; TECH/1117/03

MESERET ADAMU; TECH/1095/03

MILLIONE TESHOME; TECH/1146/03

ADVISOR: instructor haftome Z.

DATE: 11 MARCH 2015

 1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

Water resources are essential for satisfying human Needs, protecting health, and ensuring food
production, energy and the restoration of ecosystems, as well as for Social and economic
development and for sustainable Development . However, according to UN World Water
Development Report in 2003, it has been estimated that two billion people are affected by
water shortages in over forty countries, and 1.1 billion do not have sufficient drinking
water .There is a great and urgent need to supply environmentally sound technology for
the provision of drinking water. Remote water pumping systems are a key component in
meeting this need. It will also be the first stage of the purification and desalination
plants to produce potable water .In this thesis, a simple but efficient photovoltaic water
pumping system is presented. It provides theoretical studies of photo voltaic (PV) and its
modeling techniques. It also in detail the maximum power point tracker (MPPT), a
power electronic device that significantly increases the system efficiency.

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 2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

A water pumping system needs a source of power to operate. However, in many rural areas,
water sources are spread over many miles of land and power lines are scarce. Installation of a
new transmission line and a transformer to the location is often prohibitively expensive.

This days, many stand-alone type water pumping systems use internal combustion engines.
These systems are portable and easy to install. However, they have some major disadvantages,
such as: they require frequent site visits for refueling and maintenance, and furthermore diesel
fuel is often expensive and not readily available in rural areas of many developing countries. The
consumption of fossil fuels also has an environmental impact, in particular there lease of carbon
dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. CO2 emissions can be greatly reduced through the
application of renewable energy technologies, which are already cost competitive with fossil
fuels in many situations.

After all this trouble, we would like to say this thesis proposals come up with an ultimate
solution.

N.B The use of renewable energy for water pumping systems is, therefore, a very attractive
proposition.

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 3. LITERATUERE REVIEW
We have reviewed different projects which have been done in national and international level and
have got supportive ideas for our thesis.
Most of those materials we dealt with assumes and prefers the manual design and
implementation of the system since they dont use the ideas of controlling the system and using
different programming software.
So, our design approach is more modern type which allows us to fully control our system and
owe a communication device.

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 4. OBJECTIVES

Main objective

The main objective of this thesis is to design a solar powered water pumping system and ensure
whether it is financially consistent or not.

Specific objective

To design water level control circuit using microcontroller in Proteus and its
implementation.
To design and implementation of a DC-DC (Boost) converter using Proteus software.
To design a solar charge controller in Proteus and its implementation.
To use different software tools and hardware components which can simplify our system.
solar powered water pumping system design for water supply for irrigation

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 5. MOTIVATION

In our country, the life style of most of people especially that their life is dependent on
agriculture is not that much attractive; Most of the farmers produces only once a year. Even no
style of using water pumping system in most of the areas of agriculture, even if they have enough
water resource around them.

So we are motivated to solve the above mentioned problems of our farmers to make them to
enjoy their life by producing more than once a year.

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 6. RESOURCE REQUIRED

Some of the resource required to complete this thesis successfully are listed below; we will
present their approximate costs after a market assessment later;

Photovoltaic module
MPPT and some power electronic devices
Submersible DC water pump

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 7. METHODOLOGY

The experimental water pumping system proposed in this thesis is a stand-alone type without
backup batteries, because it is applicable for remote areas, and agricultural.

As shown in Figure below, the system is very simple and Consists of a single PV module, a
maximum power point Tracker (MPPT), and a DC water pump.

The size of the system is intended to be small; therefore it could be built in the lab in the future.

The system including the subsystems will be simulated to verify the functionalities.

Figure block diagram of the proposed solar water pumping system

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 8. WORKING PLAN
Month Mar Apr may
Week 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Litterateur
review
Project back
ground
Check
feasibility
Ordering
equipment
Design system
layout
Design objects
Code on
Arduino
Simulation on
proteus
Combine
result
Preparing final
report
Preparing final
presentation

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 9. REFERNCE:

www.solarwaterpumping.com

www.kyocerasolar.com

UNESCO the UN World Water Development Report, 2003 (viewed on

www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/, August 2005)