EFFECT OF DISCHARGE HEAD ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A SOLAR WATER PUMP

Authors
SUMATHY K VENKATESH A SRIRAMULU V
Citation
K. Sumathy et al., EFFECT OF DISCHARGE HEAD ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A SOLAR WATER PUMP, International journal of energy research, 18(6), 1994, pp. 623-629
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Energy & Fuels","Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology
Journal title
International journal of energy research → ACNP
ISSN journal
0363907X
Volume
18
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
623 - 629
Database
ISI
SICI code
0363-907X(1994)18:6<623:EODHOT>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Presented in the paper is a brief description of the solar thermal wat er pump and its operation. The performance of such a solar water pump working on a flat-plate collector of exposed area of 1 m2 is studied f or three different discharge heads, namely 6, 8 and 10 metres. The the rmodynamic analysis reveals that, while the number of cycles and the q uantity of water pumped per day decrease with an increase in the disch arge head the overall efficiency increases.