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Using windpumps can be a reliable, cost effective and environmentally benign means of providing a supply of clean water in rural area. Although windpumps have been in commercial production for over 100 years, there is still enormous potential for their use in communities and on farms throughout the development world.

The scarcity of appropriate information on the technology, economics and practicalities of using windpumps has helped to restrict the development of windpumping. This guide aims to assist development workers and project managers in assessing their needs and choosing and implementing an appropriate windpumping system.

Windpumps: A guide for development workers looks systematically at every aspect of the implementation of a wind-powered water-pumping system. Different situations and applications are discussed, along with details of how to assess existing local resources and evaluate the relative economics. Simple methods are described to help in sizing and specifying appropriate types of windpump, and advice given on machine procurement, installation, operation and maintenance.

An illustrated buyers' guide gives full details of over 40 of the world's major manufacturers and the range of windpumping equipment and services they offer, and lists addresses of manufacturers in 36 different countries around the world. Other appendices give useful information for life-cycle costing and summary data for assessing other methods of pumping.

Even though this book is primarily aimed at the development worker, it is still quite relevant to the farmer in Australia.

From the contents page:

• WHY WINDPUMPS?
  • Non-technical aspects of water supply projects
• THE EVOLUTION OF WINDPUMPS
  • the history of windpower
  • role of windpumps in development
  • windpump applications
  • anatomy of a windpump
• WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCE AND POTENTIAL
  • international programmes
  • africa
  • asia
  • europe and the CIS
  • south America and the caribbean
  • rest of the world
  • summary of the market potential
• WIND RESOURCE
  • energy from the wind
  • local effect
  • global wind resource
  • resource assessment
• WINDPUMP DESIGN
  • principles of conversion
  • rotor design
  • windpump performance theory
  • transmission options
  • remote pumping options
  • windpump components
• COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE EQUIPMENT
  • Type of windpumps
  • survey of products
  • manufactures' data
• ECONOMICS OF WINDPUMPS
  • general consideration
  • practical economic analysis
  • economic analysis for general cases
• CHOOSING A WINDPUMP
  • introduction
  • physical system layout
  • water resource, requirements
  • water demand
  • sizing the windpump
  • procurement
• IMPLEMENTATION
  • installation
  • operation,maintenance and repairs,safety
• APPENDIX
  • manufacturers and suppliers of windpumps
  • buyers'guide to products (which also includes Australian & NZ manufactures)
  • services offered by manufacturers
  • discount factors for life-cycle cost analysis
  • quick reference data for diesel and handpumping
  • social and economic factors in rural water supply programmes

Code No. 007635, 156 pages, ISBN 1853391263, $65.00

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