Worldwide, many farmers use irrigation systems for their crops. They usually use highpower centrifugal or axial pumps powered by electrical energy or combustion engines. This technique provides increased productivity, in ...

In this paper the feasibility of energy saving by implementing flow regulation at constant load in feedwater pumps in a sugar industry is studied. As regulation strategy, the use of a variable speed drive in the hydraulic ...

The oil circulation pumps of the elevating transformers of the Itaipu generators, called TUs, are important equipment to keep the temperature of the transformers within acceptable standards, and a failure in these equipments ...

This study presents a pump scheduling problem for the capture, transfer and storage of water supply systems in urban networks, whose objective is to minimize the electricity cost associated to the pumping operations. To ...

This work presents a flow control study of a water pumping system in a poultry slaughtering unit located on Paraná southwestern. The project uses a frequency inverter for a centrifugal pump drive, using the flow control ...