Ram Pump
The Ram Pump team will design and construct a ram pump and hydraulic testing facility has designed, constructed, and began testing a small-scale hydraulic ram pump during the spring of 20122013. Our goal is to build a optimize the ram pump for testing implementation in a water treatment plant in Honduras during the summer of 20122013.
Current & Future Research
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A modular prototype of a ram pump is currently being has been designed for data collection and ease of testing design alternatives. Once The pump has been installed in the a hydraulic testing facility , the pump will be tested under a variety of varying design parameters. These parameters will include air chamber volume, drive pipe length, inlet elevation drop, and valve typeand initial testing has been done to determine ram pump efficiency at various drive flow rates and delivery heads. Ram pump design parameters, specifically check valve weight, check valve type, and air chamber size, need to be tested to determine their effects on ram pump efficiency. Using data collected from these experiments, our pump design and construction methods will be evaluated and optimized for implementation in an AguaClara plant. |
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