Overview
- Provides practical information for installing a photovoltaic water pumping system in off-grid communities
- Develops original interdisciplinary approaches and models
- Integrates technological environmental and surveys data to promote actual sustainable development
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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This book offers practical guidance for practitioner engineers, policymakers, and other decision-makers on how to implement solar photovoltaic water pumping systems to provide domestic clean water in off-grid regions of developing countries. By championing genuine multidisciplinary research and generating interdisciplinary results, this book develops models and approaches which indicate how it might be possible to overcome some of the limitations that technocratic approaches to renewable energy and water access pose to truly sustainable development.
The book addresses technical challenges often found when promoting photovoltaic water pumping systems. It offers practical guidance to stakeholders on how to successfully select, install, and maintain photovoltaic water pumps to promote sustainable options for the poorest underserved areas/populations. A main novelty of this book is that, by using theoretical, as well as real/actual field-work data, and advanced modelling, it successfully connects energy systems engineering, environmental and geographical information and hydrology with population surveys which reveal local needs and conditions.
The book is timely and important. More than 665 700 million worldwide still do not have access to improved drinking water sources; eight out of ten live in rural areas typically located either in off-grid territory, or where connection to nearby grid is too expensive or unfeasible. Unsafe water is responsible for 1.2 million deaths each year, mainly correlated with the diarrheal diseases generated from drinking water from unimproved water sources. Sustainable Development Goal 6 (clean water and sanitation) may be achieved only if water is accessible to everyone, available when needed and free from contamination.
Keywords
- Photovoltaic water pumps for off-grid areas
- Extraction of groundwater resources
- Water access in rural Sub-Saharan
- Sustainable water pumping in off-grid rural villages
- Multidisciplinary approach to energy and water access
- Modelling location sizing cost and architecture of PWPS
- Photovoltaic water pump systems (PWPS) for off-grid areas
- Energy water nexus solar technology and system design
Table of contents (6 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Judith Alazraque Cherni is Senior Research Fellow and lectures part-time at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. Her research includes modelling of energy supply and demand, sustainable livelihoods, and renewable technologies. These progressed from her studies of international development, economics, and environmental sustainability. She has led and coordinated international research consortia; teaches and supervises postgraduates; and has authored many scientific articles, a book, and other materials.
Dr. Simon Meunier is an assistant professor at CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, and the laboratory GeePs (France). He obtained his PhD in 2019 from Université Paris-Saclay. His current research deals with low-carbon technologies and interdisciplinary approaches and he notably focuses on photovoltaic energy systems in developing regions. He is involved in postgraduate teaching and supervision and has authored a large number of scientific articles and works.
Dr. Loïc Quéval is Associate Professor at CentraleSupélec, University of Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2013. He is currently with GeePs-CNRS Laboratory. His current research focuses on the techno-economic assessment of technological innovations in the field of electrical engineering. He is involved in postgraduate teaching and supervision and has authored a large number of scientific articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Photovoltaic Pumping Systems for Domestic Sustainable Water Access in Off-Grid Areas
Authors: Judith Alazraque Cherni, Simon Meunier, Loïc Quéval
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50791-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50790-8Published: 24 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50793-9Due: 24 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50791-5Published: 23 March 2024
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 92
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks, Water, general, Sustainable Development