SUNFLOWER PUMP
ILRI, 12th April 2012
The Sunflower Pump
What is the Sunflower pump?
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Solar thermal household water pump
Designed for irrigation
Allows dry season cultivation of cash crops
Ground water depth range < 15m
Suction pumping also possible
Add-on – battery, mobile charge?
Target cost 4500 – 6000 Birr
Pump in Operation
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Design criteria
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Low capital cost
Negligible running costs,
High daily water yield
Hard wearing
Manual back-up
Simple components to maximise local manufacturing
and assembly
• VLOM (like a bicycle)
Key Benefits
• Create income generating opportunities for poor
small holder farmers
• Improve food security during dry seasons (climate
change adaptation)
• Free children and women from the onerous task of
lifting water
• Provide an alternative to polluting, expensive fossil
fuel pumps
• Catalyse creation of small businesses in
manufacturing, assembly, repairs, sales etc.
• Provide other rural power requirements
Team
International
• Sunflower.org (UK) – company dedicated to commercialisation
of solar steam pump
• Practica Foundation (Holland) – appropriate technology
research and development NGO
• IDE (Ethiopia & US) – NGO focused on ‘creating income
generating opportunities for rural poor’
Local
• Manufacturing Partners – to manufacturer, assemble, install ,
post-sales service.
• Local Facilitating Partners – promotion, training, quality
control, maintenance i.e. Technology Support
Development timeline
Funding secured
Not funded
• 1980s - 2009 experimentation and testing of early
prototypes
• 2009 – working prototype that satisfies all design criteria
• 2010 – initial field testing in Ziway, Oromia
• 2011 – design and testing of improved prototype in
Netherlands; market and manufacturing study in Ethiopia
• 2012 – further supply chain research, trial manufacturing
and assembly of 10 – 20 units in Addis/Bahir Dar;
extended field testing/pilot installations around Ethiopia.
• 2013 – manufacturing blueprint; selection of local
partners; volume production; development and training
of support services, marketing and sales
Funding
• Liberty Foundation – 150, 000 Euros
– R&D
– Market study
– Local manufacturing study
– Ten improved prototypes in field
• REEEP/IDE – 150, 000 Euros
– Supply chain study
– Financing mechanisms
– Local v global production study
– Design optimisation for mass production
– Development of training materials
Daily yield v. ground water depth
(3 sqm collector, n = 1.2%, G = 900W/sqm.)
Yield
(litres)
Cultivated
Area (sqm.)
30000
3000
25000
2500
20000
2000
15000
1500
10000
1000
5000
500
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SWL (m)
Income potential
Irrigated
area
Daily
water
(m2)
(litres)
Onions
Onions
seedlings
200
1000
100
Cabbages
Peppers
REVENUE
Time to
harvest
Crop
density
Productivity
Revenue per
unit
Revenue
(ETB)
4 - 8 birr/kg
5,400.00
150 - 260 birr
3,600.00
30 birr/kuntal
1,040.00
6 birr/kg
Total income
7,200.00
17,240.00
CROP
TOTAL
COSTS
Seeds
Fungicide
Insecticide
4.5 months
45
1 kg/10 plants
500
45 days
1 merip/
10sqm.
60
300
2
60
420
300
2100
Continual
3-5
months
2 crops/dry
season
2-4 kuntal/2
weeks
4
5 kilos/plant
Unit price
(ETB)
Description
Unit
Imported indian seeds
Rediomil Gold
Selecron
tin
kg
0.5ltr
150
250
290
12.00
1.00
1.00
1,800
250
290
complete
750
1.00
750
Distribution system Drum and hose
Labour
Transport to
market
plants/m2
No
Total (ETB)
n/a
Donkey cart
ETB 0
journey
5
30.00
150
Total costs
3,240
ANNUAL REVENUE = 14, 000 BIRR (if crop quality and market prices are optimal)
Market potential
Woreda
HH
%Irr
<6m
6-12m
12-18m Total
Rating
Jebitenan
37,802
53.3%
8728
5923
5103
19754
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Banja
Shekudad
17,975
40.0%
3981
2318
1678
7977
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Dangila
27,017
46.0%
6454
3669
2871
12994
51
Fagitalekuma
24,045
38.5%
4484
2565
2478
9527
49
Mecha
59,016
51.0%
13,549
9,128
7,072
29749
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Fogera
45,820
54.0%
20,602
4,030
2,613
27245
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S. Achefer
26,189
35.0%
4236
2800
2667
9703
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This represents a total of almost 100, 000 households.
Nation Development
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Growth and transformation plan
Green economy
Business and job creation
Climate change resilience
Green energy for Millennium Development Goals
Ethiopian pump exports
IMPROVED PUMP
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Next steps
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Trial local manufacturing of improved prototype
Extended field testing/demonstration
Identify facilitating partners
Development of Technology Support Program
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Promotion and dissemination
Establishment of repair and maintenance network
Training and production of training materials
Certification/ Quality control
Agreements with credit agencies
o Low volume deployment in one/two Regions
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