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The Head (H) – Discharge (Q) curves for both the pumping
system are presented in Fig.8 and Fig.9. These indicate that
Fig.4 Reciprocating pump (SPVA1) increase radiation will increase H & Q for both the systems
and the patterns are more or less same. These will help to find
out most efficient operating point knowing the system head
curve for individual pumps.
All these results are being presented here will help to find
out or selecting the SPV pumps best on requirement as well as
the availability of the system curves.
REFERENCES
[1] Report, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, 2014, Ministry of
Agriculture and Cooperation, Gov. of India (http://agricoop.nic.in/)
[2] Report, Planning Commission, 2014, Gov. of India
(http://planningcommission.nic.in/)
[3] Ratan Mandal, Rakesh Naskar, “A Comparative Study and Performance
Analysis of Two Similar Solar Photovoltaic Irrigation System; One with
SPV Panel Cleaning Mechanism and another One without Cleaning
Mechanism,” International Journal of Advanced Alternative Energy,
Environment and Ecology, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 15-35, 2012.
[4] Robert Fostera, Alma Cotaa, “Solar water pumping advances and
comparative economics,” Energy Procedia, 57 (2014) 1431 – 1436.
[5] Ratan Mandal, Subhadeep Chakraborty, “Some Studies on Performance
Variation of A Laboratory Scale Solar Photovoltaic Pumping System on
Fig.10 D.P. vs. minimum radiation for pump operation the different Parameter; i.e. Module Surface Temperature; Solar
Radiation; Pump Discharge Pressure in Different Seasons,” International
Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol. 2 Issue 8,
pages 1660-1666, August – 2013.
IV. CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is found that centrifugal
pump (SPVA2) exhibits large efficiency at low discharge
pressure. The minimum radiation required for the operation of
pump is also large for SPVA2 for high discharge pressure.
This occurs because at lower radiation the speed of centrifugal
pump is less than the required specific speed of pump. For the
large discharge pressure, the SPVA2 has better efficiency at
high radiation. The centrifugal pump can show better
performance and efficiency when the head problem does not
come into consideration. So, for agriculture where the surface
water layer hardly changes, its performance can be good as
compared to the reciprocating pump.