Enabling Sustainable Irrigation through Hydro-Powered Pumps for Canals
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FEFTS Specifications
Research project
for Clean energy supply (Energy production system)
Renewable energy source
Hydro (Kinetic)
Technology used
Hydropower
Special type
Run-of-the-river
Energy produced
Mechanical energy
Suitable/ideal for
Mobile applications
Agricultural domain
Open-field agriculture
Suitable for
Farmer
Applications
Agricultural field practices
Especially
Irrigation
Type of solution
Hardware, Complete solution
Details
Project`s acronym: HyPump (2016-2017)
Project funding type: EU
Project funding source: H2020
Project coordinator: AQYSTA HOLDING BV
Coordinator location: Netherlands
Coordinator email / Contact form: info@aqysta.com
Project status: Finished
Total budget: 71429
Additional info
Leveraging on the successful launch of the Barsha Pump, a floating river pump for small-scale farmers throughout the world, which does not require any fuel, electricity to operate, aQysta will develop and demonstrate a large-scale system for canals (with a power of 1.5 kW, compared to 150 W for floating river pumps) that can serve the needs of irrigation communities in Europe. This will be achieved by integrating the patent-pending Barsha Pump with the Hydrostatic Pressure Wheel concept, which is up to 90% efficient, compared to only 29.6% maximum efficiency of floating waterwheels and has been successfully proven as a prototype in both lab conditions and in field.
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Assessment
This section contains a brief assessment of the FEFTS described.
There are 3 basic categories: General, Environmental and Socioeconomic assessment.
The purpose of this assessment is to give a quick overview to the potential FEFTS user of its application benefits.
For each question, the Likert scale is used with the following possible answers:
Strongly disagree, Disagree, Neither agree nor disagree (Neutral)/non applicable, Agree, Strongly agree
General
This FEFTS contributes to improve the energy profiles of farming systems:Environmental
The application of this FEFTS directly reduces fossil energy use, in terms of:- Tools and equipment electricity consumption
- Tools and equipment fuel consumption
- will drastically reduce the environmental footprint with respect to conventional pumps and is at least 2 times less capital intensive compared to solar alternative
Socioeconomic
The application of this FEFTS contributes to cost reductions of farming systems:Keep in mind that this assessment is subjective, based on publicly available information.
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