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SUNFLOWER‐P SOLAR PUMP SPECIFICATION
Around the world, 500 million smallholder farmers TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE
rely on unpredictable rainfall for their crops; limiting
farming potential. To help alleviate this problem we The Sunflower‐P can lift over 13,000 litres of water a
have developed a low‐cost solar‐powered irrigation day, with best performance at low pumping heads,
pump to meet their needs. It's called the Sunflower. and slower flow rates with increasing head, as
illustrated below. Solar tracking is manual and
performed by the farmer, along with gear changes
required relating to solar irradiance levels.
Daily water volume pumped (max potential
assuming 6 hour day)
13000
12500
Volume (litres/day)
12000
11500
11000
10500
10000
0 1 2 3 4 5
HOW IT WORKS Head (m)
The Sunflower‐P has three main parts: the PV panel, Designed for shallow and surface water pumping the
a 70 W (667 x 881 mm) solar panel to convert Sunflower‐P is ideal for retrieving lake and river water
sunlight into electrical energy; the motor, a three (lifting water up to 7 m). The pump is efficient at both
geared motor designed to use the electrical energy to sucking and discharging across the head range;
turn the flywheel; and the pump, a reciprocal piston therefore, performance is not compromised by the
pump to draw water out of a well, river or lake. position of the pump along the length of pipe.
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EFFICIENCY DRIP IRRIGATION KITS
The pump shows good efficiency of input power Thanks to some low cost innovation by our partners
versus hydraulic power out across the different gears iDE, we can offer low‐pressure microtube drip
and stroke lengths, resulting in high efficiency irrigation kits. These kits can cover a 500m2 area and
pumping across a range of heads. can be connected to a header water tank or bag, or
directly to the Sunflower outlet.
Pump efficiency
40.00%
Estimated Pump Efficiency
Gear 3,
30.00% stroke 4
Gear 2,
20.00% stroke 4
Gear 3,
10.00% stroke 1
Gear 2,
0.00% stroke 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Static head (m)
POWER REQUIREMENT
Pumped head
5
4
Stroke 1
Head (m)
3
Stroke 2
2
Stroke 3
1
Stroke 4
0
20.00 30.00 40.00 50.00 60.00
Power (W)
The power requirement varies in response to
changing head height, gear and stroke length and Configuration
thus allows the selection of the most efficient Plot Size 20 x 25 meters (pre‐configured)
combination for each farm specification. Row Spacing 1 metre
Microtube Emitter 30cm typical (determined by
Spacing user)
Number of Laterals 21
Recommended Sub‐main located at top of field
Configuration (pre‐configured)
Recommended 1000 litre water reservoir at
Water Storage least (not included in the kit)
Required Water 100 mesh screen filter (included
Filter in the kit)
Emitter Flow Rate 6 litre/hour (with 1 metre head)
Pressure Operating 0.75‐3 metre head (0.075 to 0.3
Range bar)
System Uniformity 80‐85%
A 70 Watt PV panel can work at a maximum of 4
amps and 17.5 volts, producing enough power in full
sunlight to pump over 13000 L/day (field test: 0.61L/s
measured off a solar panel producing 55 W).
© Futurepump Kenya Ltd www.futurepump.com hello@futurepump.com
Registration: CPR/2011/58998 +254 (0)720168609 +44(0)1986 873503