Shum, Keng Hang Wilson (2023) Development Of Solar Water Pump For Aquaculture. Faculty of Civil Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah.
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Abstract
Nowadays, the community and scientists have been urged to switch to renewable energy sources like as solar, wind, and biogas to power the water pumping system. Sun has shown to be the most encouraging power producing resources due to their availability as most of Peninsular Malaysia has six hours of daylight each day and it is environmentally beneficial. The aquaculture industry, which began in the 1920s and is rapidly increasing but associated with environmental concerns. The solar water pump for aquaculture is mainly for the fishpond owners who are hard to remove out the polluted water. The distance of fishpond far from the developed area, hence less or no grid connection. The design of the water pump is unable to provide sufficient power and not easy to move around when it is used to withdraw the water from a far and deep-water pond. This project aims to build a mobilized solar water pump for aquaculture and evaluate the wattage of the solar system. A water pump was designed with Siemens NX software into centrifugal pump and built to work together with solar charging station. The cardinal directions which were North, South, West, East and angle of the solar panel which were 0° and 45° were set accordingly to measure voltage, current and the factors which will affect the readings such as solar radiation flux density, module and ambient temperature, humidity and weather condition. This was aimed to select the highest wattage production as the best solar panel orientation is at 0-15° and during south direction. The average flowrate of the water pump as recorded at 0.0787 l/s by using the manual flow rate calculation. The charging will take about 4 hours to charge 55% of the SLA battery. With the average flowrate above, the water pump will require around 8 minutes and 20 seconds to finish remove the water from a 10-gallon aquarium. The solar water pump for aquaculture may be design and built in a larger size for a wider use in the aquaculture sector.
| Item Type: | Undergraduates Project Papers |
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| Additional Information: | SV: Dr. Nadzirah binti Mohd Mokhtar |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | renewable energy |
| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Civil Engineering Technology |
| Depositing User: | Mr. Nik Ahmad Nasyrun Nik Abd Malik |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2024 04:40 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2024 04:40 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/41286 |
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