Design of Control System for Water Lifting and Irrigation using Wind Energy

Abstract

Water is one of the most important element of life. It is used in many fields such as agriculture. With increasing demand for water supply and lack of rainfall in many arid countries, ground water seems to be the only alternative to this problem. Traditional hand Pumps are used to extract the water from wells because there is no electricity to pump the water in many rural areas, but this method is difficult and do not extract enough water. The aim of this thesis is to design control system to extract the water from wells by using wind energy. Many elements used to design the system such as sensors, wind turbine, microcontroller, pump and valve. Which are work together to control of water sorting and irrigation process. PROTEUS program used to make the simulation of the system. Simulation results demonstrated a good performance of the system.