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Project Report
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“SOLAR BASED AGRICULTURE SPRAYER”

A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the Academic requirements for
the award of the degree of
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
SUBMITTED BY
GUNDEBOINA SRAVANTHI (21R95A0233)
BANOTH THIRUPATHI NAYAK (21R95A0207)
CHINTAKE PREETHI REDDY (20R91A0205)
MARAM PAVAN (20R91A0211)

Under the esteemed guidance of

Mr.A.NAGASRIDHAR

Assistant professor

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

TEEGALA KRISHNA REDDY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
(UGC-Autonomous)
Approved by AICTE, Affiliated by JNTUH, Accredited by NBA & NAAC with‘A’ Grade
Medbowli, Meerpet, Balapur, Hyderabad, Telangana- 500097 Mob:
9393959597. Email: [email protected], [email protected]
 TEEGALA KRISHNA REDDY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
(UGC-Autonomous)
Approved by AICTE, Affiliated by JNTUH, Accredited by NBA & NAAC with‘A’
Grade
Medbowli, Meerpet, Balapur, Hyderabad, Telangana- 500097
Mob: 9393959597. Email: [email protected], [email protected]
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the Dissertation entitled "SOLAR
BASED AGRICULTURE SPRAYER " is a bonafide work done by
G.SRAVANTHI(21R95A0233), B THIRUPATHI NAYAK(21R95A0207), C PREETHI
(20R91A0205), M.PAVAN(20R91A0211) in partial fulfillment of the academic
requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Technology in ELECTRICAL AND
ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING, submitted to the Department of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering, TEEGALA KRISHNA REDDY ENGINEERING COLLEGE,
Hyderabad during the academic year 2022-2023.

Internal Guide Name HOD-EEE

Mr.A.NAGASRIDHAR Mr.T.MADHUBABU

Internal Examiner External Examiner

(Signature with date) (Signature with date)
 DECLARATION

The work presented in this dissertation entitled “SOLAR BASED AGRICULTURE

SPRAYER” is original and has been carried out under the supervision of
Mr.A.NAGASRIDHAR Assistant Professor, TKREC

Also, we declare that the matter embodied in this project has not been
submitted in any full or any part there for the award of any degree of any other
institution.

PROJECT ASSOCIATES
G.SRAVANTHI (21R95A0233)
B.THIRUPATHI NAYAK (21R95A0207)
C PREETHI REDDY (20R91A0205)
M. PAVAN (20R91A0211)
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

With great pleasure I want to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to all
the people who helped in making this project work a grand success.

I am grateful to Mr.A.NAGASRIDHAR for his valuable suggestions and guidance given

by him during the execution of this project work.

I would like to thank Mr.T.MADHUBABU Head of the Department of Electrical &

Electronics Engineering, for being moral support throughout the period of my study in
TKREC.

I am highly indebted to Principal Dr.K.VENKATA MURALI MOHAN, for giving me

the permission to carry out this Project.

I would like to thank the Teaching & Non- teaching staff of Department of
Electrical & Electronics Engineering for sharing their knowledge with me.

PROJECT ASSOCIATES
G.SRAVANTHI (21R95A0233)
B.THIRUPATHI NAYAK (21R95A0207)
C PREETHI REDDY (20R91A0205)
M. PAVAN (20R91A0211)
 TEEGALA KRISHNA REDDY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
(UGC-Autonomous)
Approved by AICTE, Affiliated by JNTUH, Accredited by NBA & NAAC with‘A’
Grade
Medbowli, Meerpet, Balapur, Hyderabad, Telangana- 500097 Mob:
9393959597. Email: [email protected], [email protected]
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
ABSTRACT
Day by day the population of India is increasing and to full fill the need of food
modernization of agricultural sectors are important. Due to chemical fertilizers the fertility of soil is
decreasing. Hence farmers are attracted towards organic farming. By mechanization in spraying
devices fertilizers and pesticides are distributed equally on the farm and reduce the quantity of waste,
which results in prevention of losses and wastage of input applied to farm. It will reduce the cost of
production. Mechanization gives higher productivity in minimum input. Farmers are using same
traditional methods for spraying fertilizers and pesticides. Equipment is also the same for ages. In India
there is a large development in industrial sectors compared to agricultural sectors. Conventionally the
spraying is done by labours carrying backpack sprayer and fertilizers are sprayed manually. The efforts
required are more and beneficial by farmers having small farming land. We know that today’s world
faces a huge “energy crisis” problem. To meet the future “energy demands”, the use of non-
conventional energy as an alternate solution is inescapable. A solar operated pesticide sprayer is a pump
running on electricity generated by photovoltaic panels or the thermal energy available from collected
sunlight as opposed to grid electricity or diesel run water pumps. The operation of solar powered pumps
is more economical mainly due to the lower operation and maintenance costs and has less
environmental impact than pumps powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE). Solar pumps are
useful where grid electricity is unavailable and alternative sources. The solar sprayer has many
advantages. Besides reducing the cost of spraying, there is a saving on fuel/petrol. Also, the
transportation cost for buying petrol is saved. The solar sprayer maintenance is simple. There is less
vibrations compared to the petrol sprayer. The farmer can do the spraying operation by himself without
engaging labour, thus increasing spraying efficiency.
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER TOPIC PAGE NO.

1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.2 STATUS OF AGRICULTURE IN INDIA 2

1.3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 2

1.4 OBJECTIVES 3

1.5 METHODOLOGY 3

2 PESTICIDE SPRAYING TECHNIQUES 4

2.1 PESTICIDES 4

2.2 SPAYERS AND SPRAYING TECHNOQUES 5

2.3 COMPONENTS OF SPRAYERS 9

2.4 DROPLET SIZE 12

2.5 NOZZLE 14

2.5.1 NOZZLE TIP 15

2.5.2 NOZZLE SELECTION 15

2.5.3 NOZZLE HEIGHT 18

2.5.4 RIGHT WAY OF SPRAYING 18

3 WORKING PRINCIPLE 19

3.1 WORKING PRINCIPLE 19

3.2 COMPONENTS USED 20

3.2.1 SOLAR CHARGE CONTROLLER 21

3.2.2 SPEED REGULATOR 23

3.2.3 SOLAR PANEL 25

3.2.4 BATTERY 27

3.2.5 DC PUMP 27

3.2.6 TANK 28

3.2.7 NOZZLE 28

3.2.8 CONNECTING PIPE 29

4 DESIGN AND CALCULATIONS 30

5 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 34

5.1 TECHNICAL RESULT 34

6 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES 36

7 CONCLUSION 37

8 FUTURE SCOPE 38

9 REFERENCE 39