Seeking cost reduction and energy savings in water supply by improving the operation of pumps is both an obvious as well as a very efficient possibility to consider. Without making changes to the basic elements of a water supply system, remarkable reductions in operation costs can be achieved by optimising the pump scheduling (PS) problem. The UK Water Research Centre (WRC) [1985] estimates the...

This paper deals with the pumping storage system analysis. The water reservoir serves for daily and seasonal energy storage, thus basically solving the problem of energy storage, which is the biggest problem of wider use of renewable energy sources. The electrical energy produced in excess by the renewable energy system is converted in potential energy by pumping water to a higher elevation whe...

This paper presents the analysis of a water pumping system from photovoltaic cells using a currentfed parallel resonant push-pull inverter, for residential applications in rural areas. The structure of the power circuit is particularly simple and robust. It works in a ZVS commutation. Its main features are: one power processing stage, simple control strategy, low harmonic distortion of the load...

water conveyance through pumping takes a lot of energy and cost and therefore, its application should be accompanied by exact design of pumping station as well as correct positions of pumps and their subsidiary apparatus. sumps are designed for many pumping stations and often face the problems of vortex and irregular flows. therefore an investigation of the general flow pattern in sumps in diff...

This paper presents the design process of a high performance 3-phase 3.7 kW 2-pole line start permanent magnet synchronous motor for pumping system. A method was proposed to study the starting torque characteristics considering line start with high inertia load. A d-q model including cage was built to study the synchronization capability. Time-stepping finite element method analysis was utilize...

After having analyzed advantages and disadvantages of the possible solutions for the vacuum system for the T600 we estimate in some details the performance a given commercial solution. Pump down times and final vacuum are computed either analytically and with dedicated simulation software. We also estimated the concentration of impurities left in the volume after the cool down and defined some ...

A case history is presented pertaining to five pumping systems that operated satisfactorily until a new production requirement was imposed on the pumping systems. A new slurry product initially developed at lab scale was introduced into the production plant for an initial trial run. Problems began to surface immediately on three out of five batch process pumping systems when the slurry could no...

We study driven-dissipative Bose-Einstein condensates in a two-mode Josephson system, such as a double-well potential, with asymmetrical pumping. We investigate nonlinear effects on the condensate populations and mode transitions. The generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equations are modified in order to treat pumping of only a single mode. We characterize the steady-state solutions in such a system a...

We propose here a (biologically inspired) model of P system called proton pumping P system that is a special case of evolution– communication P system. In cell biology there are transport mechanisms, involving protons. We generalize this idea by considering a few different types of protons. A proton pumping P system is, essentially, an evolution–communication P system where a special subset of ...