Range water-pumping systems: state-of-the-art-review. Forest Service project report

Technical Report · Fri Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6846595

McKenzie, D W

Information learned from the investigative effort conducted in the solar-water-pumping systems portion of the Range Water System Improvement project is reviewed. The report covers the development of new windmill designs including fully counterbalanced, spring-counterbalanced and com-operated windmills, hydraulic system to replace pump rods of a conventional windmill, automatic stroke controls for a 3-bladed wind turbine, wind electric ac and dc generators driving ac and dc submersible pumps, windmill-driven air compressor operating an air lift pump, long-life well cyclinder, and performance modeling and testing of windmills. Photovoltaic-powered water-pumping systems discussed include large or oversized solar arrays, series-parallel photovoltaic-panel switching, maximum power controller systems, photovoltaic-powered pumping systems with submersible pump, and solar-thermal pumping systems.

• Research Organization: Forest Service, San Dimas, CA (USA). Equipment Development Center
• OSTI ID: 6846595
• Report Number(s): PB-88-218565/XAB; PR-8522-1201
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
CONVERSION
DESIGN
DIRECT ENERGY CONVERTERS
ECOSYSTEMS
ENERGY CONVERSION
EQUIPMENT
EVALUATION
HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT
INFORMATION
MACHINERY
PHOTOELECTRIC CELLS
PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS
PUMPS
RANGELANDS
SIMULATION
SOLAR CELLS
SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR THERMAL CONVERSION
SOLAR WATER PUMPS
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
TURBINES
TURBOMACHINERY
WATER PUMPS
WATER WELLS
WELLS
WIND TURBINES