Agricultural Engineering Today
Year : 1994, Volume : 18, Issue : 3and4
First page : ( 48) Last page : ( 51)
Print ISSN : 0970-2962. Online ISSN : 2230-7265.

Status of Water Pumping Wind Mills in the State of Orissa

Dash Sk¹, Khan Md. K¹, Paul JC¹, Mohanty SN¹, Sahoo PK²

¹Collage of Agril. Engineering and Technology, OUAT, Bhabaneswar

²C.I.R.G (ICAR), Makhdoom

Abstract

Water pumping wind mills located in different parts of Orissa were surveyed to know about their performance, technical back up and post installation problems. Out of the total 307 numbers of wind mills installed in the state, 66% were completely out of order due to different reasons such as use of poor quality materials and fabrication defects (1%), site and installation problems (8.5%), poor maintenance (43 6%), damage by natural calamities (9.8%) and other personal factors (2 9%). About 90% of the wind mill owners did not give proper attention for the post-installation measures of their wind mills. It was also observed that lack of satisfactory performance of most of the wind mills has declined people's interest towards this programme substantially in the past few years.

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