Open AccessMechanical Concept on Design and Development of Irrigation System to Help Rural Farmers for Their Agriculture Purpose During Unavailability of External Power
Author(s) -
R. C. Nayak,
Manmatha K. Roul,
Abhisek Sarangi,
Asish K Sarangi,
Abinash Sahoo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1059/1/012048
Subject(s) - agriculture , irrigation , agricultural engineering , electricity , unavailability , work (physics) , diesel fuel , agricultural machinery , operations management , engineering , business , environmental science , automotive engineering , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , geography , agronomy , archaeology , reliability engineering , biology
Odisha is one of the states in India, where almost 70% families depend on agriculture. Odisha is a common destination for tropical cyclones that generally initiate in the Bay of Bengal. These cyclones destroy the total agriculture system and electricity infrastructure of Odisha every year. Agriculture is the backbone of the economy of any state. Economy can be boosted by the adoption of modern technology and advanced irrigation methods. Continuous irrigation is only possible by using pumps which is operated by diesel, petrol, kerosene or electric power connected with tube well. For such type of arrangement farmers generally depend on electricity, petrol or diesel. But due to continuous electric failure for number of days as a result of frequent cyclones, farmers suffer a lot. With continuous increase in the prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene or electricity, poor farmers find it difficult to bear the cost. The aim and purpose of this work is to develop an irrigation system to help farmers for irrigation purpose to obtain better yields in agriculture with minimum expenses. In the present work mechanical concepts such as Mechanical Advantage (MA), Velocity Ratio (VR), Efficiency, energy storage concepts are used. The system consists of gears, flywheel, handle, bearings and other assembly unit. This arrangement is placed on a frame which is made up of mild steel angles having dimension 40 x 40 x 5 mm. A shaft having 25 mm diameter is used with a flywheel and four numbers of bearings. Driver and driven gears having 200 and 40 number of teethes in simple gear train arrangement are taken in this work. The concept is very simple and its manufacturing process is also very easy. There will be no issue for such type of product as it is environmental friendly and the main purpose of this system is to save the environment and reduce pollution. The idea can be easily implemented because here the input materials are easily available. So by using this system there is no need of any electric supply for irrigation purpose. The work presented here is innovative in nature and has not been developed by any other researchers in the past. By using this system even weak and physically disabled persons can lift water for the purpose of agriculture without any difficulty.