In this work, it was made an applied research in two stations, the first one located at Canabarro locality and the second one at Politécnico School at UFSM, in Santa Maria city, RS, with wind and photovoltaic equipments for pumping water. These ones are used for fruit trees irrigation in irrigation systems of low pressure. The research work was developed from September 2007 to August 2009, when the results showed the viability of wind and photovoltaic equipments for utilization in the complementary irrigation in fruit cultures such as guava, fig and grape trees. In the fruit culture sector, are installed: one multivane fans windindicator one savonius windindicator and respective pumps as well as pump set and a photovoltaic board. With the photovoltaic system, the pumped volume was about 5000 m3/ha and, with the wind system, the pumped volume was approximately 6m3/ha. The wind groups demonstrated low efficiency, if compared to photovoltaic systems, which showed more efficient. / No presente trabalho, foi realizado uma pesquisa aplicada em duas estações, a primeira localizada na localidade de Canabarro e a segunda no Colégio Politécnico da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria na cidade de Santa Maria , RS, com equipamentos eólicos e fotovoltaicos para bombeamento de água . Esses foram utilizado para irrigação em frutíferas, em sistemas de irrigação localizada de baixa pressão. O trabalho de pesquisa realizou-se de setembro de 2007 a agosto de 2009, quando se chegou a resultados que demonstram a viabilidade de equipamentos eólicos e solares fotovoltaicos para utilização na irrigação complementar nas culturas de goiabeira, figueira e videira. No setor de fruticultura, estão instalados um cata-vento de múltiplas pás, um cata-vento Savonius com respectivas bombas e um conjunto de bomba e placa fotovoltaica para bombeamento de água. Com o sistema fotovoltaico, o volume bombeado foi de aproximadamente 5000 m3/ha e com o sistema eólico o volume bombeado foi de aproximadamente 6 m3/ha .Os conjuntos eólicos demonstraram baixa eficiência, se comparados com os sistemas fotovoltaicos, os quais se mostraram mais eficientes.

This thesis describes the creation of a small-scale Hybrid Power System (HPS) that maximizes energy from a wind turbine and photovoltaic array. Small-scale HPS are becoming an increasingly viable energy solution as fossil fuel prices rise and more electricity is needed in remote areas. Modern HPS typically employ wind speed sensors and three power stages to extract maximum power. Modern systems also use passive rectifiers to convert AC from the wind turbine to DC that is usable by power electronics. This passive system inefficiently wastes power and introduces damaging harmonic noise to the wind turbine. The HPS described in this thesis does not require external wind speed sensors, and has independent wind and solar Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT). It converts AC from the wind turbine to DC with a Vienna rectifier that can be controlled to improve efficiency, allow MPPT, and allow Power Factor Correction (PFC). PFC all but eliminates the harmonic noise that can damage the wind turbine. A prototype HPS was built and evaluated that combines the two renewable sources in such a way that only two power stages are necessary, the Vienna rectifier and a step-down converter. This thesis describes the prototype and reports the results obtained.

The increasing popularity and improvements in the blockchain technology that offers decentralized communication and transactions in the form of cryptocurrencies that have now days a market value of almost 1.3 Trillion dollars and a huge potential to contribute to other fields such as health care, financial transactions, information technology, secure data exchange, data storage and many others has been pushing towards more integrating of renewable energies in this field. The process of approving and inserting the information and contracts with Bitcoins on the blockchain is called mining of Bitcoin and accounts for a large electricity consumption which has been estimated to be around 120 Terawatt_hour (TWH) worldwide in 2023. To keep this field of technology improving and strengthen its development, leading it towards more usage of clean energy will benefit the field and most importantly will help our societies to face climate change and align with the United Nations sustainable goals regarding integrating and increasing the usage of renewable energies and sustainable methods in all fields of life and industry.  The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of building a mining farm for bitcoin powered by renewable energies, solar and wind, by using photovoltaics systems and wind turbines with the integration of storage mediums to utilize the clean energy as much as possible. The project is done by firstly conducting a literature review about the technologies used followed by choosing the most appropriate alternatives that fit best for the current project properties and goals. After choosing the components and methods to be used , the technical feasibility is analyzed by simulating the hybrid energy system using a code program written in the software MATLAB which optimizes and calculates on one hand the electricity production of the system that is used for the hourly reliability in meeting the load demand of the mining devices and on the other hand the total cost of the system which will be built upon to estimate the levelized cost of energy and hence analyze the economic feasibility of the project.After conducting the simulation and financial calculations, the results show that the project is technically feasible and the reliability can be as high as around 8650 hours of the year, however, to achieve a 100 percent reliability a support power should be used such as a diesel generator which has also been done in this work. The economic feasibility indicates that the project will be profitable based on the installed capacities and mined Bitcoins, however a storage medium and a support power production source are vital for the success of such a project.