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Record W4415989856 · doi:10.24018/ejece.2025.9.5.756

Solar Water Pumping System Designed with HOMER and LORENTZ for Kufri, Khushab, Pakistan

2025· article· W4415989856 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEnergy
TopicPhotovoltaic System Optimization Techniques
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWater pumpingPhotovoltaic systemRenewable energySolar energyCost of electricity by sourceGreenhouse gas

Abstract

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This research paper presents a design and optimization of a solar-powered water pumping system utilizing by HOMER and LORENTZ software. This research seeks to design a solar water pumping system for a remote location in Kufri, Khushab, Pakistan. With the use of renewable energy, the system is designed to irrigate the land area approximately 30,000 m2 with daily water consumption between 137 and 140 m3. Water demand, total dynamic head (47 m), and sun irradiation were among the site-specific data gathered. An 8.75 kW photovoltaic system, 24-battery storage (Trojan SPRE 12 225), and a 7.11 kW inverter are suggested by the HOMER simulation to achieve 100% renewable operation with no carbon emissions and levelized cost of energy of $0.074/kWh. LORENTZ calculations verified that, with an 8.8 kW solar array, the PSk3-7 C-SJ17-9 submersible pump could deliver 140 m3 per day on average throughout the year. Together, HOMER and LORENTZ can optimize water and energy systems for isolated, off-grid areas. For rural Pakistan, the solution opens the door for net-zero water infrastructure by guaranteeing dependability, cost, and environmental sustainability. Both tools were combined to create a techno-economic, cross-validated solution.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.905
Threshold uncertainty score0.893

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.200
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it