Design for Low Power Irrigation Systems for Small Plot Farming in Eastern India

irrigation on small-scale farms (~ 1 acre) in Eastern India. The pump is part of a larger irrigation system powered by 300 watts of solar panels and includes batteries as an energy buffer. The pump was designed for and achieved a performance point of 13 gal/min and a pressure head of 1 bar and surpassed the efficiency of every other pump of its kind currently on the market with an efficiency of 29%. The irrigation system is being tested in the field in two pilot studies (ongoing as of this writing since February 2015) in two villages outside of Chakradharpur, Jarkhand, India.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2015

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• Esparza, Marcos A

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• Amos G. Winter, V.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100882

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