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In India, most of the growers live in remote and hilly areas. They are forced to live without power since they are not connected to grid. The present trend of increasing oil prices becomes burdensome to the grower depending on diesel generator sets. The renewable energy utilization is one of the alternate sources for running the pump for supply water to irrigation land. In this paper, the solar energy is being used to operate the pump and can be operated at a given time depend upon the requirement of water to the field based on overcoming power supply issues and generation. The reason behind case study is water pumping network control system of Global System Module (GSM) work is to design, test and evaluate a wireless water pump control system customized for working in long distant places and improve efficiency. Also this shows the water effectively using solar energy operated pump by measuring the soil moisture using sensors and there by supplying the required quantity of water, it will designed for four crops namely; 1) Sun flower 2) Wheat 3) Ground nut 4) Corn. The evaluation of the performances is based on results for crops by using hardware device unit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The total energy consumption in India accounts for only 17.3 % from renewable energy resources. Hence, researchers are currently looking for options to reduce the dependencies on non-renewable resources. Although solar and wind energy are the most cost-effective and efficient renewable energy sources, they are unreliable due to the sporadic nature of their occurrence, if implemented as standalones. This research aims to design independent, sustainable hybrid street light that uses only solar and wind energy for its working. We studied different design parameters using dynamic meshing technique to design blades which are aerodynamically efficient. This paper also involves simulations from MATLAB and SOLIDWORKS to get a real-life power output. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reducing production costs of thermo-conversion of waste to fuel technologies depends upon an integrated approach to heat utilisation, nutrient recycling and complete by-product valorisation. Hydrothermal liquefaction is a proven laboratory technology with much recent research interest, though yet to be widely deployed as a commercial technology for third generation biofuels. Notwithstanding increased applied research efforts into hydrothermal liquefaction, energy inputs into waste to fuel formulation remain high, and originate from non-renewable heat sources. The technical approach presented is the field testing of an integrated set-up of concentrated solar power and hydrothermal liquefaction system and bio-crude output compositional analysis. Concentrated solar power is integrated with hydrothermal liquefaction technologies into the conversion process to improve the energy efficiency and the economic case for scaling waste to bio-crude production. This paper presents the hydrothermal liquefaction bio-oil formation and product analysis at a pre-pilot field scale. Waste valorisation and commercial strategy is discussed with reference to post-reactant hydrothermal liquefaction outputs on experimental work carried out in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]