Water and photovoltaics in developing countries

✍ Scribed by J.A. Roger

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Weight: 808 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0379-6787
• DOI: 10.1016/0379-6787(82)90036-9

✦ Synopsis

The development of photovoltaic pumps has progressed during the past 5 years, and this paper is a review of the technical aspects of such installations. Economic and social considerations are given as well as a discussion of the problems associated with each of the possible circumstances (shallow or deep wells, systems with or without electronics etc.).

The direct coupling technique is found to have a high degree of reliability and evidence is presented to demonstrate that photovoltaic pumps are competitive with diesel engines for powers of up to 5 kW.