The Implementation of Wind Power Pressure Pump and Application for Building Water Supply Systems

Abstract

Due to rapid urban development in recent years, buildings have become taller and taller and population has increased dramatically such that most of the general residents are living in apartments or buildings more than 5 stories tall. Household water is mostly distributed to each household by water pump such that it is more likely for the higher floors to encounter the problem of insufficient water pressure, especially during the peak hour of water usage. We have to rely on the pressure pump to solve this issue, but the operation of traditional pressure pump relies on electricity, leading to issues of noise and vibration generations. In this study we proposed the concept wind power pressure pump equipment. The idea is transform wind power resources into air pressure and then apply in building water supply system, such as the natural wind power ,wind blew for existing air conditioning equipment on the roof and the temperature difference within building pipelines. The main purpose of this study is to reduce the noise and vibration issues resulted from the operation of traditional pressure pump. We can achieve the goal of electricity saving through the concept of energy recycling in order to meet the appeal of green life. In this stage, we built the prototype of wind powered air pressure pump. The testing of wind pressure motor performance in this research includes the air pressure compressed the air into gas tank and compressed the water via release air pressure. The result shows that the water pressure produced via the wind power air pressure pump is consistent with the standard of water pressure in the past water supply projects, which should be kept at 1kg/cm^2.