AVALIAÇÃO DE CONJUNTO MOTOBOMBA PARA IRRIGAÇÃO COM FONTE ALTERNATIVA DE ENERGIA E MONITORAMENTO DA ÁGUA

Abstract

The need to increase agricultural production is growing, as population demand grows exponentially, however, management conditions are inaccessible when there is a lack of water and one of the ways to inhibit this barrier is with irrigation, allowing to extend production in extensive periods of drought. The objective of this work is to monitor the water quality of a water body for irrigation with an alternative energy source. The materials used were a motor pump with adaptation for gaseous hydrogen, a float, an oven and precision scales. The methodology used for the studies on the energy source were: consumption measurement, carried out through seven repetitions of tests comparing hydrogen together with gasoline and gasoline alone as a function of the water pump flow, compared through variable rate and coefficient of Pearson. The analyzes for water quality were of suspended and dissolved solids evaluated monthly in the UNIFUNEC chemistry laboratory by the physical method, the flow was determined by the float method with data collected monthly, both for a period of eight months. The results of these monitoring showed that there was a savings of 37.5% in gasoline when hydrogen was added, in addition to these, the greatest decrease in solids and water flow was in the months of June, July and August. It is concluded that hydrogen can be an alternative source of energy and that rain directly interferes with the surface runoff of solids as well as their flow.