PV panel size In this document, the possibility of a SPIS (solar powered irrigation system) has (capacity) been studied for a sit in Burundi, East Africa. The site is a farm, where maize, palm (maximum 300 trees, sunflower and groundnuts are cultivated. The livestock present on the farm words) has not been taken into account. The aim was to assure access to irrigation water for the months where harvested rain water is not available but climate conditions demand irrigation for the plants. The special water requirements of each crop have not been considered. An estimated daily waster demand of 1 m³ has been anticipated. Besides daily water demand, the height difference has a big impact on the system’s design. The height between water source (a river) and the farm are 59 m, as a drip irrigation should be built, 2 meters must be added as the final tank must be elevated to assure water transport by gravity (between tank and plants). Final height is 61 m (without friction losses or similar). A third parameter is the daily global solar radiation”, these data have been taken from a website “Mean powered by NASA. As it can be seen in calculations made in chapter 4, such a system would need 101 Wp to run. The highest demand is 110.7 Wp, the lowest is 92.2 Wp.
PV panel size (capacity) (maximum 300 words) In this document, the possibility of a SPIS (solar powered irrigation system) has been studied for a sit in Burundi, East Africa. The site is a farm, where maize, palm trees, sunflower and groundnuts are cultivated. The livestock present on the farm has not been taken into account. The aim was to assure access to irrigation water for the months where harvested rain water is not available but climate conditions demand irrigation for the plants. The special water requirements of each crop have not been considered. An estimated daily waster demand of 1 m³ has been anticipated. Besides daily water demand, the height difference has a big impact on the system’s design. The height between water source (a river) and the farm are 59 m, as a drip irrigation should be built, 2 meters must be added as the final tank must be elevated to assure water transport by gravity (between tank and plants). Final height is 61 m (without friction losses or similar). A third parameter is the “Mean daily global solar radiation”, these data have been taken from a website powered by NASA. As it can be seen in calculations made in chapter 4, such a system would need 101 Wp to run. The highest demand is 110.7 Wp, the lowest is 92.2 Wp.
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