Markovic Self-Propelled River Pump

This innovative pump system by Slovenian inventor, Vladimir Markovic, works in relatively slow and shallow moving water (rivers) to pump water for irrigation; pump air into the water to oxygenate and clean up a river; or to pump water for driving an electric generator.

The Slovenian Pump design of this self-propelled submergible pump operates with 3 pairs of propelling wings with a diameter of 2,4 meters. As the moving water hits the blade, it either lifts the blade to provide push if going in the same direction, or pushes the blade down so the water flows over it if moving in the opposite direction.

A triple-peristaltic submergible pump can deliver nearly 300,000 litres of water per day.

The company, Izumi, is now ready to go into production.


Our Coverage: http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Markovic_SP_River_Pump

Official site: http://www.izumi.si

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• renewable
• energy
• river
• power
• water
• pumping
• turbine
• efficient

[smarkov12]

This solution is offering really great possibilities for us here. We need contact too.

[PESNetwork]

You can find contact info on the two links in the description for this video.

[risor]

this is cool

[TheJohn1320]

@sok8888 ROFL, wayyy off course there captain Kirk

It's SMALL scale for homes/ small farms. You go ahead and build that dam for your home, and tell me how that works out..

[brickster240]

@OneBigPappa ...and if you want to really pump the water, which means you want to bring it higher than the river's water level, what do you do?

[enticed2zeitgeist]

Wow! Great concept!

[OneBigPappa]

personally I would get about a dozen 50' garden hoses and just use the siphon method. You prime the hose by leaving it curled up, hold on to one end, putting it in the river completely, cap one end with your hand and drag it out. might want to weigh down the other end in the river and put a screen over it. if you need 100' then use 100' feet. You just need more hose on the dry side to siphon it out.

[megatwingo]

@sok8888

If you have the money, time and knowledge to dam a river up....hey let´s go! :)

And I don´t even have mentioned the ecological results for fish, river and landscape of such a dam.

I like this pump.

Especially for people with few money and need more mobile solutions than a big dam.

[sok8888]

The efficiency is bad. Why not dam up the river for a hydro instead?

[PlugUlgy]

Wonder if it could be used to generate electricty? Perhaps pumping water up hill to a storage tank. Then release back down hill to a micro-hydro set up back into the river.

[windfucker26]

smart



[piespokladowy]

Very good idea!