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Water From Air, Atmospheric Water Generators (AWGs) |
| Ecoloblue
http://www.ecoloblue.com/ecoloblue28
 Off
grid drinking water solution. produces 1-4 gallons of clean
filtered drinking water per day from thin air. No need for wells
or desalination of ocean water. |
 EcoloBlue
Atmospheric Water Generators (AWGs) produce unlimited, pure,
delicious drinking water from just the humidity in the air. |
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Solar PV Water Pumping Basics |
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A Graphic Guide to Solar Water Pumping
Windy Dankoff
How to get articles from Home Power ...
http://www.dankoffsolar.com/
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 Home
Power Magazine article, issue 46Very good article on
designing and selecting the components for a solar electric
water pumping system. Covers a wide variety of pumping head,
flow, and system types -- helps you select the right pumping
system for the job.
The Dankoff website has a lot of solar pumping information,
specifications, installation instructions, pump manuals... |
Solar (Photovoltaic)
Water Pumping,
From Practical Action.org
http://practicalaction.org
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 Some
good information on selecting and sizing a PV powered water
pumping systems. Covers types of systems vs depth and flow
required.
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| Guide to Solar Powered
Water Pumping in New York State New York State Energy Research
and Development Authority
http://www.nyserda.org
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 A
pretty complete and detailed guide to planning and implementing
a solar powered water pumping system.
Also compares solar pumping to Diesel, wind, and gravity
systems.
2004 |
Build Your Own
Solar-Powered Water Pumping Station,
Jeffery Yago, Backwoods Home Magazine
www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/yago91.html
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 Good
Backwoods Home article (issue 91) by Jeff Yago on building
simple solar pumping systems. |
| Solar Water Pumping
Wind and Sun
http://www.solar-electric.com
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Quite a bit of information on
solar water pumping systems. A general guide on solar water
pumping and specifications for solar pumping equipment. |
| Solar-Powered
Livestock Watering Systems University of Tennessee Extension
Stock Watering PV 1640 (140K pdf) |
 Good
paper on solar stock watering systems. Covers types of systems,
and sizing and designing system.Much of this information
could be applicable to a residential water system that uses a
storage tank.
From the University of Tennessee Extension Service:
http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/extension/ExtPubs/ |
| Pumps and Watering
Systems for Managed Beef Grazing
http://www.muextension.missouri.edu
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 Quite
a bit of information on systems to provide water for stock,
including some solar ones. Piping and tank design, water
requirements ... |
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Solar PV Water Pumping Systems |
A Solar Powered
Pumping and Storage System Suitable for a Household
From By Example
http://byexample.com/projects/current/submersible_well_pump/
Lots of interesting material on the ByExample.com website.
|
 Very
good article on designing and installing a simple solar powered
well water pumping system suitable for one household.
The system pumps from 140 ft to fill a 1600 gallon water storage
tank.
The
Sun Pumps Submersible pump is said to pump from depths up to
230 ft at rates up to 2 gpm. This might provide about 600
gallons on a sunny day from a fixed PV array. |
Solar Water Pumping
Makes Sense
Windy Dankoff
How to get articles from Home Power ...
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 Home
Power magazine article, issue 97Very good description of
design and installation of a direct PV solar pumping system for
a house. |
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Winter Cattle Watering with Automated Solar
Pumps
Ken Kelln and Paul Hanley
How to get articles from Home Power ...
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 Home
Power Magazine article, issue 98
A simple and elegant PV powered stock
watering system that is “cow activated”. PV panel and
batteries power a submersible 12VDC pump that is activated by a
motion detector. System Cost $4200. |
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Solar-Powered Cattle Saloon
L. A. Wallin
How to get articles from Home Power ...
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 Home
Power Magazine article, issue 54Article about pumping water
from a 400 ft deep well using a solar powered pump jack
(mechanically powered piston pump at bottom of well). Providing
water for cattle in Montana. |
| Build your own
solar-powered water pumping station Backwoods Magazine
Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/yago91.html
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A good
 Backwoods
Magazine article on sizing and installing a solar powered water
pumping system for livestock. |
| OtherPower -- Water
Pumping
www.otherpower.com/otherpower_waterpumping.html
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 Solar
PV powered water pumping system description with pretty good
hands-on information, and some advice. |
| Solar Water Pumping
and Supplementary Power for a Grid-Powered Home Windy Dankoff
How to get articles from Home Power ...
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 Good
Home Power article by Windy Dankoff on providing enough PV power
to pump well water, and to supply a few other crucial circuits
in case of power failure. |
Pumping Water for Irrigation Using
Solar Energy
H.J. Helikson, D.Z. Haman and C.D. BairdUniversity of Florida
-- Extension Service
Pumping Paper (pdf)
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 Interesting
1992 paper on PV powered pumping for irrigation wire. Good
analysis of system.Interesting reflector/tracking arrangement
on the PV panels that increases panel output significantly. |
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Ram Pumps Ram pumps use a flow of low head water to pump a
portion of the water uphill |
| Hydraulic Ram Pumps
http://www.lifewater.ca/ram_pump.htm
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 Lots
of information on ram pumps at this site. |
| Build Your Own Ram Pump
Clemson University -- Cooperative Extension Service
Pump Plans
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 Plans
to build your own pump, as well as ram pump theory of operation,
design and sizing information. |
Building a Homemade Ram
Pump
Scott Lee
How to get articles from Home Power ...
Also here:
hometown.aol.com/slee529282/ramartl.pdf
|
 Home
Power Magazine article, issue 76Good hands-on article on how
to build a simple ram pump from hardware store parts. Ram pumps
use a flow of low head water to pump a portion of the water
uphill. |
Hydraulic Ram Pumps
Prepared by:
Gregory D. Jennings, PhD, PE
www.bae.ncsu.edu |
 This
paper explains how ramp pumps operate, and allows you to size
your ram pump. |
| Atlas Ram Pump
Construction
http://atlaspub.20m.com/kits.htm
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 A
company that sells ram pump parts and kits, as well as a book on
ram pumps that is reported to be good. |
| Low Cost, low flow,
home made hydraulic ram pump (no welding required)
www.judyofthewoods.net/ram_pump.html
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 A
ram pump design adapted from other designs that is aimed at
smaller water flows and simplified assembly.Good construction
detail.
Have a look around the rest of Judy's website while you are
there -- lots of interesting material. |
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Spiral Pump -- A slow turning pump that can be powered by slow
flowing creeks/rivers |
| Spiral Pump
http://www.earthgarden.com.au/waterwheel.html
The Spiral Pump - A High Lift, Slow Turning Pump, Peter
Trailer
www.lurkertech.com/chris/eco/pump/tailer/
Wild Water Power -- more spiral pump information:
http://www.wildwaterpower.com/
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 This
pump uses a rotating pipe coil to pump water. It requires only
moving water to power it.The pump in the picture pumps 400
gallons per day to a tank 50 ft above the pump.
 The
Spiral Pump - A High Lift, Slow Turning Pump, Peter Trailer
Very interesting set of tests on a spiral pump. Quite a bit of
design and construction information is also provided.
Sometime I am going to have to sit down an figure why this
works :-) |
| Hand
Pumps |
| Bison Pumps
http://www.bisonpumps.com/photo.htm
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 Hand
pumps for either primary or backup use.
For shallow or deep wells (up to 300'). |
| Rintoul's Hand Pumps
http://www.handpumps.com/
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 A
variety of hand pumps for wells all the way up to 250 ft deep. |
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Windmill Pumps |
Suppliers of Windmill
Water Pumps,
from WindEnergy.orgAeromotor:
www.aermotorwindmill.com
Dempster:
http://www.dempsterinc.com/html/Windmills.htm
Manual showing details ... (pdf)
Ferguson Windmills Company:
http://www.windmills.biz/main.html
Oasis Water Pumping Windmill:
www.windmillpower.com
How the Windmill pumps work:
www.aermotorwindmill.com/Links/Education/Index.asp |
 These
are some commercial sources for the traditional windmill driven
water pump. In these pumps, a high torque, low speed wind rotor
directly drives a mechanical linkage to a pump located at the
bottom of the well bore.
These windmill pumps are simple and have been in common use for
120 years. Some are 100 years old and still running.
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Wind Pumping,
From Practical Action.org
http://practicalaction.org
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 A
guide to wind mill water pumping. Characteristics of mechanical
vs electric powered water pumps.
Some design and sizing information. |
| Historic Water Pumping
Windmills in Australia
www.thebackshed.com/...
|
 Some
great stories and information on pumper wind mills in Australia.
Quite a nice collection of information on the great machines.
This is on
the
backshed site, which has a ton of good information on
building your own wind system. |
| Pictures of a Dempster
water pumping windmill along I-15
Look at pictures... |
 Just
some pictures of a Dempster windmill water pumper.
Look at pictures ... |
Freeze Proof Stock Waters -- that don't use energy
A whole section of solar and geothermal freeze resistant stock
watering tank here...
Tanks you can build or buy that do not require electric
tank heaters to be free of ice.
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Swimming Pool Pumping |
DIY Solar Pool Pump
Project,
Rick Kehret
www.norcalsolar.org/...
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 Good
description of the design and installation of a solar PV powered
swimming po |
