Small-scale irrigation with photovoltaic water pumping system in Sahara regions

Renewable Energy

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1081-1096

  Hamidat, A ^a   Benyoucef, B ^b   Hartani, T ^c  

^a CENTRE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

^c Institut National Agronomique   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Crop coefficient; Evapotranspiration; Irrigation; Photovoltaic; Water Pumping

Indexed keywords

CROPS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; WATER WELL PUMPS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC WATER PUMPING SYSTEMS;

IRRIGATION;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; WATER PUMPING;

FARM CROPS; IRRIGATION; PUMPS; WATER;

EID: 0037408822     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(02)00058-7     Document Type: Article

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