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I have returned to AguaClara as a member of the Ram Pump Team! Since the Honduras Trip over Winter Break, the team has many new things to focus on and enhance in the Ram Pump design. We will The plan for this semester was to begin with reconstruction of the Pump, then move onto measuring pump efficiency and seeing if alternative designs could increase efficienciesefficiency. With our best design, we will experiment with the pump, test wear and tear of the parts, find failure modes, and try to scale the model. As the semester came to a close, we were only able to reconstruct the ram pump. After waiting for parts and technical difficulties with the air chamber and the numerous leaks we were finally be able to run the system a few times. There was not enough time to test the system for flow rate, head loss, efficiency, and durability but rebuilding the pump and seeing it finally run was a huge achievement.
Spring 2012 Contributions
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