Author : Mohsin Abbas Mashay and Nazar Ali Abbood

The process of producing agriculture crops is very dependent on energy. The dependency on fossil fuels causes the
cost of producing crops to increase as the prices of fuel increases. Using a renewable energy sources to power and
irrigation system is a mean of decreasing the dependency of agriculture crops on the prices of fuel . The research aims to design a drip irrigation system, solar powered for the purpose of watering the plant and operate the system
independently from the national grid , which is designed parts thereof according to the mechanism reduce the power required from the system and the preparation of sequential programming to run water pumps , submersible and surface , where the pumps are used enabled solar energy as the rationalization of water consumption is used as a drip irrigation equipment . The computer program is used for the work Epanet hydraulic simulation by selecting the pressure and flow within the pipeline network and access the design optimization.

Keywords: Renewable energy; Drip irrigation; solar pump.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.9, No.2 (March/April 2019)