PHOTOVOLTAIC WATER PUMPING SYSTEM

Recent global developments appear to guarantee a market for green renewable
energy. Among several sources of renewable energy currently explored, photovoltaic
(PV) system appears to be promising in view of their environmentally clean nature
and the advantage of direct conversion to electrical energy. The aim of this project is
to design a laboratory model of solar-powered water pumping system to prove that
the concept of using solar energy as electricity is possible. The system consists of
solar panel, power conditioner such as charge controller and inverter, storage battery,
AC Pump and DC Pump. The report will cover all theory and literature review behind
this project. To design a photovoltaic water pumping system, the understanding on
each system components on the operation and concept are needed. The scope of study
of this project includes the photovoltaic and its operation, storage battery operation in
photovoltaic system, controller circuit design and its assemblage, inverter circuit and
its assemblage and prototype design and construction. The results showed that PV
system would be suitable to supply electricity to both AC and DC load, without using
energy from the grid.