A Grid-Connected Solar Photovoltaic Hybrid System for Reliable Power and Water Supply in Modern Irrigation Application

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A Grid-Connected Solar Photovoltaic Hybrid System for Reliable Power and Water Supply in Modern Irrigation Application

Year : 2021

Publisher : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Source Title : Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

The water-crisis is one of the biggest issues in India, where 18% of the world-population has only 4% of the world’s freshwater. Again, among this ground freshwater, 80% is used in agricultural purposes. In India, rice is one of the chief grains and it has a time varying requirement of cultivation-water. This paper proposes a grid-connected hybrid system where a solar-photovoltaic (PV) system is used to drive an induction-motor (IM)-based pump with a proposed topology, where the supply of water is according to the water-demand, to reduces the wastage of water. This topology also includes a web-server-based hybrid energy management scheme. One model reference adaptive system (MRAS)-based speed-sensor-less vector-control with closed-loop water level controller is used here. The web-server-based topology not only helps to run the pump using the economical available power source, which is decided by the weather report predictive analysis, but it also helps to monitor and control the entire system remotely. The proposed system has been simulated by MATLAB/Simulink in a wide range of water discharge and speed variations. Then, the appropriateness of that system has been verified by the practical data of an agricultural water pump.