Toward improving water-energy-food nexus through dynamic energy management of solar powered automated irrigation system

Neelesh Yadav, Balasundaram Pattabiraman, Narsa Reddy Tummuru, B. S. Soundharajan, Kasiviswanathan Ks, Adebayo J. Adeloye, Subhamoy Sen, Mukesh Maurya, Vijaya Lakshmanan S.

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Abstract

This paper focuses on developing a water and energy-saving reliable irrigation system using state-of-the-art computing, communication, and optimal energy management framework. The framework integrates real-time soil moisture and weather forecasting information to decide the time of irrigation and quantity of water required for potato crops, which is made available to the users across a region through the cloud-based irrigation decision support system. This is accomplished through various modules such as data acquisition, soil moisture forecasting, smart irrigation scheduling, and energy management scheme. The main emphasizes is on the electrical segment which demonstrates an energy management scheme for PV-battery based grid-connected system to operate the irrigation system valves and water pump. The proposed scheme is verified through simulation and dSpace-based real-time experiment studies. Overall, the proposed energy management system demonstrates an improvement in the optimal onsite solar power generation and storage capacity to power the solar pump which save the electrical energy as well as the water in order to establish an improved solar-irrigation system. Finally, the proposed system achieved water and energy savings of around 9.24 % for potato crop with full irrigation enhancing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus at field scale.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere25359
JournalHeliyon
Volume10
Issue number4
Early online date7 Feb 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Feb 2024

Keywords

  • Battery
  • Energy management scheme
  • Irrigation
  • PV
  • Permanent magnet synchronous motor drive
  • Water-saving

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General

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