Field practice report under the green energy project research at Central Luzon State University (CLSU)
| dc.contributor.author | Christian A. Andres | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-10T06:14:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-10T06:14:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The field practice was conducted at Brgy. Bagabag, Nueva Ecija Viscaya. The field practice was composed of two major activities; these were installation of drip irrigation system and evaluation of biogas driven pump system in terms of using biogas as fuel and the economic cost benefits of using the biogas driven pump for pump irrigation with drip system. The drip irrigation system consists of a main line, submains, lateral, and emitters. The main line delivers water to the submains, and the submains deliver water into laterals. The objective for the installation of drip irrigation system was to evaluate based on the discharge delivered per plant in one day irrigation. The procedure was adivide the planting area in two for irrigation scheduling. The dripline used was pressure compensating dripline fitted with silicon diaphragm that reacts to pressure by creating counter resistance to the water flowing out with the dripper. The expected result in all plant was a discharge of 1 liter of water per hour due to the pressure compensating dripline that delivered precise and equal water anywhere in the field in regardless of changes in pressure due to long rows or changes in terrain. Biogas plant used to process animal wastes or manure to produce biogas and sludge consisting of an inlet mixing tank, digester, gas chamber and outlet/sludge tank Biogas is a type of bio-fuel, which primarily consists of methane and carbon dioxide. Thus, the biogas was proved that it can be applicable substitute as fuel by retrofitted four strokes ICE. The objectives were to compare the consumed biogas to the gasoline consumed in 9 hours operation; and to compute the economic cost benefits of using the biogas driven pump for pump irrigation with drip system. The evaluation of biogas driven pump, the procedure was made a bypass to secure the inlet of manure inside the digester. The biogas utilization for one day with continuous feeding of manure was 5.12 cubic meter and the remaining 1.68 cubic meter volume of biogas can be used as fuel for other ICE application and cooking, respectively. The gas remainder 1.97 cubic meter can be used for other business venture that uses energy. The performance evaluation was carried out in four stroke ICE shows that this can be used as an automotive fuel with a comparatively much lesser operation cost than the conventional fuels. However the power observed was less than that of liquid fuel. The ICE took approximately 15 hours and 25 minutes before the biogas was drained. The results show some failure due to incorrect retrofitting of biogas system and another factor was the dynamic pressure inside the digester. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://granarium.clsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/202 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.title | Field practice report under the green energy project research at Central Luzon State University (CLSU) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |