sexta-feira, 5 de junho de 2009
terça-feira, 2 de junho de 2009
Pag 8 Irauçuba is in Paragliding Route of Ceará
The City of Pacatuba hosted the 1st Open Hang Gliding in Ceará, held the last weekend of June, the ramp of Pacatuba. The event was organized by direction of the North East Paragliding Club (NPC), with the support of Cearense Paragliding Club (CPC), the Association of Flight Cearense Free (ACVL) of the Freedom Flight Club Cearense (CCVL), the Federation Paragliding and Hang-glider of the State of Ceará (FEPACE) and the Municipality of Pacatuba.
Participated in the activities of the event categories novice, serial and open for paragliding and delta wing. On the first day, Saturday, was the evidence of distance, called the Cross Country, which wins the pilot who can land further. The record for distance on the ramp Pacatuba was obtained in January 2007, when a pilot flew to the city of Irauçuba, located 148km off the site. On Sunday the evidence required precision in landing in the target and in time.
Pag 7 SIERRA OF LOLAIA IN IRAUÇUBA
SIERRA OF LOLAIAThe Sierra of Lolaia Irauçuba in the state of Ceará is the most accessed by ecotourists from various parts of Brazil and even from abroad, tourists come by indications of irauçubense people who live in Ceará and in other states of Brazil and overseas.
sexta-feira, 1 de maio de 2009
PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL FOR PUMP IN LIVRAMENTO -IRAUÇUBA-CEARÁ
Photovoltaic cells (solar panels) used to pump and desalinize groundwater in the farming community of Livramento (near Irauçuba), Ceará, northeast Brazil. The panels were provided by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) as part of the Northeastern Brazil Groundwater Project also known as PROASNE. Social worker Rita Eugênia (left) and project manager Yvon Maurice pose for this photograph with local community members who benefit from this technology
Pag 6 CIDA IN IRAUÇUBA
The Department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) received the mandate from the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA) to help develop the groundwater resources of northeast Brazil,
where some 25 million people living in an area the size of Ontario, are periodically affected by severe
droughts related to the El-Niño phenomenon. Solar power will play an important role in this development.
The NRCan/CIDA project, know as the
Northeastern Brazil Groundwater Project is
introducing new technologies based on satellite
imagery and airborne geophysics to map the
groundwater resources over large areas quickly and
efficiently. The airborne geophysics is proving to be
particularly useful because the groundwater is
slightly saline in this region and behaves as a
conductor that can be easily detected by the
geophysical methods.
Being able to map the groundwater resources
over large areas dramatically increases the amount of
water available to the region, which traditionally
depended on wells drilled mostly near the villages
and farms that needed the water for human
consumption and agriculture. But opening up the
region to groundwater development will also require
a new approach to water management because water
wells will now be drilled further from the consumers,
most often away from the conventional electrical
grid that currently supplies only the major centres of
population. In this water management scheme, it is
clear that solar energy has a crucial role to play in
bringing the newly developed water resources to the
consumers.
Solar energy for water pumping is not new to
NE-Brazil. However, it has not been used as
extensively as one would expect considering the
amount of available sunlight in the region. One
reason for this is that the only submersible motors
that are readily available in Brazil to operate the
pumps are alternate electrical current (ac) motors.
With such motors, the direct current (dc) from the
photovoltaic modules has to be transformed into ac
current with a loss of efficiency.
To improve the process, the NRCan/CIDA
project contracted Sunmotor International Ltd, a
Calgary firm that specializes in solar energy
applications, to adapt one of its specially designed dc
motors to a line of popular Brazilian submersible
pumps. Sunmotor also developed a special motor to
be coupled with booster pumps for use with reverse
osmosis equipment for desalinization. Groundwater
needs to be desalinized before it can be consumed by
humans or used for irrigation in North East Brazil.
Currently all of the thousands of desalinization
plants in operation in NE-Brazil use conventional
energy, severely limiting their usefulness and leaving
a large segment of the rural population without
access to good quality water.
To demonstrate the technology, a five-member
partnership was established to build an experimental
solar pumping and desalinization station in a small
farming community in the state of Ceará in North
East Brazil. This community of about twenty-five
households has no electricity and obtained its water
from a well with dangerously high salinity, powered
by a windmill, until it broke down about a year ago.
CIDA president Len Good converses with Sunmotor
International President Eric Jensen (dark shirt), at the
inauguration of experimental solar pumping and
desalinization station in northeast Brazil. The windmill in
the background provided water to the community until it
broke down about one year ago.
5
Then, “survival” water was brought to community
by tanker trucks.
In this experiment, a Sunmotor SUB500
submersible motor fitted to a multi-stage centrifugal
pump manufactured by Dancor S.A. of Rio de
Janeiro, powered by nine 75 watt solar modules
wired 3 series x 3 parallel, is used to deliver some
2600 litres per hour at a pumping height of about 36
metres. For the reverse osmosis unit, a Procon rotary
vane pump model 2507, powered by a 1.5 h.p. 90
volt, 1800 rpm dc motor connected to 18 x 75 watt
solar modules wired 6 series x 3 parallel is used to
deliver 15 litres per minute at a pressure of 170 psi,
as required for the efficient operation of the RO
membrane. The system will operate for a minimum
of six hours per day under clear conditions, easily
achieving the target output of 1000 litres per day of
potable water.
The station was inaugurated on November 26,
2001 by the President of CIDA, Len Good, in the
presence of representatives of all the Canadian and
Brazilian partners in the project, the local government
authorities and the entire community. It is hoped that
the station will be used as a model to be replicated in
hundreds of communities throughout the northeast of
Brazil that could benefit from this technology. The
experiment is also drawing a great deal of attention
at CIDA, and in March 2002, the station was visited
by the Minister of International Cooperation, the
Honourable Susan Whelan.
The use of solar power has a great deal of
room for expansion in water and energy deficient
northeast Brazil, and Canadian technology and
expertise can be part of this expansion. The Northeastern
Brazil Groundwater Project is looking at
other applications of solar power, including in
irrigation and long distance water transport.
CIDA President Len Good surrounded by representatives
of project partners and community residents in front of
the PV array at the inauguration in the state of Ceará.
Local resident fetching good quality water at the newly
installed solar pumping and desalinization station.
75 watt PV modules
used to operate the
pumping equipment
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our special thanks to Eric Jensen,
President of Sunmotor International Ltd., and Fabio
Peixoto Cavalcante of SOHIDRA, a branch of the Water
Resources Secretariat of the state of Ceará, for providing
the technical expertise for this project. SOHIDRA is also
thanked for contributing the reverse osmosis desalinization
equipment, the water tanks, and all the excellent onsite
infrastructure. Oderson de Sousa Filho of Serviço
Geológico do Brazil (CPRM), NRCan’s principal partner
in the Northeastern Brazil Groundwater Project, is
thanked for his invaluable assistance with the various
aspects of the logistics. Rita Eugênia Martins Santiago,
the Projects social program coordinator in Ceará, worked
with the Prefect of the Municipality of Irauçuba, Evaldo
Gomes Bastos and with the entire community of
Livramento to provide the very important social services
for this project. Finally, we are indebted to Bob
Anderson, CIDA’s Vice-President for the Americas, and
all the CIDA personnel involved in the Americas Program,
for their continuous support for the Northeastern Brazil
Groundwater Project
International Development Agency (CIDA) to help develop the groundwater resources of northeast Brazil,
where some 25 million people living in an area the size of Ontario, are periodically affected by severe
droughts related to the El-Niño phenomenon. Solar power will play an important role in this development.
The NRCan/CIDA project, know as the
Northeastern Brazil Groundwater Project is
introducing new technologies based on satellite
imagery and airborne geophysics to map the
groundwater resources over large areas quickly and
efficiently. The airborne geophysics is proving to be
particularly useful because the groundwater is
slightly saline in this region and behaves as a
conductor that can be easily detected by the
geophysical methods.
Being able to map the groundwater resources
over large areas dramatically increases the amount of
water available to the region, which traditionally
depended on wells drilled mostly near the villages
and farms that needed the water for human
consumption and agriculture. But opening up the
region to groundwater development will also require
a new approach to water management because water
wells will now be drilled further from the consumers,
most often away from the conventional electrical
grid that currently supplies only the major centres of
population. In this water management scheme, it is
clear that solar energy has a crucial role to play in
bringing the newly developed water resources to the
consumers.
Solar energy for water pumping is not new to
NE-Brazil. However, it has not been used as
extensively as one would expect considering the
amount of available sunlight in the region. One
reason for this is that the only submersible motors
that are readily available in Brazil to operate the
pumps are alternate electrical current (ac) motors.
With such motors, the direct current (dc) from the
photovoltaic modules has to be transformed into ac
current with a loss of efficiency.
To improve the process, the NRCan/CIDA
project contracted Sunmotor International Ltd, a
Calgary firm that specializes in solar energy
applications, to adapt one of its specially designed dc
motors to a line of popular Brazilian submersible
pumps. Sunmotor also developed a special motor to
be coupled with booster pumps for use with reverse
osmosis equipment for desalinization. Groundwater
needs to be desalinized before it can be consumed by
humans or used for irrigation in North East Brazil.
Currently all of the thousands of desalinization
plants in operation in NE-Brazil use conventional
energy, severely limiting their usefulness and leaving
a large segment of the rural population without
access to good quality water.
To demonstrate the technology, a five-member
partnership was established to build an experimental
solar pumping and desalinization station in a small
farming community in the state of Ceará in North
East Brazil. This community of about twenty-five
households has no electricity and obtained its water
from a well with dangerously high salinity, powered
by a windmill, until it broke down about a year ago.
CIDA president Len Good converses with Sunmotor
International President Eric Jensen (dark shirt), at the
inauguration of experimental solar pumping and
desalinization station in northeast Brazil. The windmill in
the background provided water to the community until it
broke down about one year ago.
5
Then, “survival” water was brought to community
by tanker trucks.
In this experiment, a Sunmotor SUB500
submersible motor fitted to a multi-stage centrifugal
pump manufactured by Dancor S.A. of Rio de
Janeiro, powered by nine 75 watt solar modules
wired 3 series x 3 parallel, is used to deliver some
2600 litres per hour at a pumping height of about 36
metres. For the reverse osmosis unit, a Procon rotary
vane pump model 2507, powered by a 1.5 h.p. 90
volt, 1800 rpm dc motor connected to 18 x 75 watt
solar modules wired 6 series x 3 parallel is used to
deliver 15 litres per minute at a pressure of 170 psi,
as required for the efficient operation of the RO
membrane. The system will operate for a minimum
of six hours per day under clear conditions, easily
achieving the target output of 1000 litres per day of
potable water.
The station was inaugurated on November 26,
2001 by the President of CIDA, Len Good, in the
presence of representatives of all the Canadian and
Brazilian partners in the project, the local government
authorities and the entire community. It is hoped that
the station will be used as a model to be replicated in
hundreds of communities throughout the northeast of
Brazil that could benefit from this technology. The
experiment is also drawing a great deal of attention
at CIDA, and in March 2002, the station was visited
by the Minister of International Cooperation, the
Honourable Susan Whelan.
The use of solar power has a great deal of
room for expansion in water and energy deficient
northeast Brazil, and Canadian technology and
expertise can be part of this expansion. The Northeastern
Brazil Groundwater Project is looking at
other applications of solar power, including in
irrigation and long distance water transport.
CIDA President Len Good surrounded by representatives
of project partners and community residents in front of
the PV array at the inauguration in the state of Ceará.
Local resident fetching good quality water at the newly
installed solar pumping and desalinization station.
75 watt PV modules
used to operate the
pumping equipment
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our special thanks to Eric Jensen,
President of Sunmotor International Ltd., and Fabio
Peixoto Cavalcante of SOHIDRA, a branch of the Water
Resources Secretariat of the state of Ceará, for providing
the technical expertise for this project. SOHIDRA is also
thanked for contributing the reverse osmosis desalinization
equipment, the water tanks, and all the excellent onsite
infrastructure. Oderson de Sousa Filho of Serviço
Geológico do Brazil (CPRM), NRCan’s principal partner
in the Northeastern Brazil Groundwater Project, is
thanked for his invaluable assistance with the various
aspects of the logistics. Rita Eugênia Martins Santiago,
the Projects social program coordinator in Ceará, worked
with the Prefect of the Municipality of Irauçuba, Evaldo
Gomes Bastos and with the entire community of
Livramento to provide the very important social services
for this project. Finally, we are indebted to Bob
Anderson, CIDA’s Vice-President for the Americas, and
all the CIDA personnel involved in the Americas Program,
for their continuous support for the Northeastern Brazil
Groundwater Project
sexta-feira, 17 de abril de 2009
Pag 5 Images of Irauçuba City
THIS IS THE PRINCIPAL SQUARE LUIS DA MOTA
BEHIND THE HANDICRAFT CENTER IS THE SIERRA RIACHÃO
CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS TOWER
7 DE SETEMBRO STREET
CITY HALL OF IRAUÇUBA (EE ROU SOO BAH )
DAY OF SUNDAY THE DAY OF SHOPPING IN FAIR OF IRAUÇUBA
HANDICRAFT CENTER
Pag 4 How to go to Stone of Machadão
Irauçuba City
The city of Irauçuba is near the city of Sobral in the higher part of the map. Tourists must take the BR 222 (the road that goes there)
Distance from Capital of Fortaleza : 155 km
Informations: There are some roads in mountains such as the Stone of Machadão, Stone of Timbaúba, Pedra Redonda (round stone) and Pedra Maior (big stone).
Getting There
By car: From Fortaleza city, take the BR-222, towards the São Luiz do Curu city, Umirim city and Itapajé city.
By bus: The bus companies and coastal Guanabara maintain permanent lines that give access to the city of Itapajé, from the Bus Terminal Engineer John Thomas, in Fortaleza, which is 5 km from Pinto Martins Airport.
Litorânea (bus)
(85) 3256-4483
Guanabara (bus)
(85) 4005-1992
http://www.expressoguanabara.com.br/
Pag 3 Photographs of climbers in the Stone Machadão in the city of Irauçuba in northeastern Brazil
PEPÊ OLIVEIRA THE CLIMBER
IN THE TOP OF THE STONE OF MACHADÃO
ONLY THE BRAVE MEN AND MORE PREPARED TO UNDERTAKE THIS ADVENTUREPag 2 Stone of Machadão (mar shar dan )
STONE OF MACHADÃO (MAR SHAR DAN )To reach the Stone of Machadão ( mar shar dan ), from the BR-222 Fortaleza, go to the Village São José, turn right into a big tower of telecommunication.
The stone is at the end of the valley in front of a weir. There is a spring at the base, with water all year round.
Pag 1 Welcome to Tourism in Irauçuba
My friends who visit Tourism in Irauçuba,
Thank you for visiting!
The purpose of this blog is to stimulate tourism in the small town of Irauçuba in the state of Ceará, Brazil. The population of it is very poor, but a humble people who like to work and have fun as anywhere in the world , communicative and friendly.
There are mountains that are favorite places for climbers throughout Brazil. You need to know the Stone Machadão in the rural area of the city, is a place preferred by Brazilian and foreign climbers ...
Sincerely,
Felix Vasconcelos
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