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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 ABSTRACT
This project report is about designing a hydraulic ram pump to transfer water
from a river into awater tank with given dimensions and conditions. The
hydraulic ram pump designed is believed to be the most suitable and efficient
for the given conditions based on the calculations performed.
For the first step of designing, all the related problems are listed and understand.
Then, thespecifications, criteria and evaluation of the solutions are developed.
This including choosing themost suitable operational working principals for the
hydraulic ram pump (hydram), outline of thetheoretical background behind the
operation and its details calculations, which are being referredto the concept and
theory entitles to Fluid Mechanics.
1.2 OBJECTIVES
1. To design a Hydraulic Ram Pump which is able to fill a water tank at
height of 20m fromriver flow.

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1.3 PROBLEM STATEMENT
In this project, we are required to design a hydraulic ram pump to fill a water
tank at a height of 20m from river flow. The conditions are as follows:
River Water (source): Depth = 0.5m Wide = 1.5m Flowrate = 120m /sec
Tank (to be filled): Volume = 1200m3
[ Figure1. layout of hydraulic ram ]

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2 . Litearature review
2.1 INTRODUCTION
A hydraulic ram pump (also called hydram) is a pump that uses energy from a
falling quantity of water to pump some of it to an elevation much higher than
the original level at the source. No other energy is required and as long as there
is a continuous flow of falling water, the pump will work continuously and
automatically. Provision of adequate domestic water supply for scattered rural
populations is a major problem in many developing countries. Fuel and
maintenance costs to operate conventional pumping systems are becoming
prohibitive. The hydraulic ram pump (hydram) is an alternative pumping device
that is relatively simple technology that uses renewable energy, and is durable.
The hydram has only two moving parts; these are impulse valve and delivery
valve which can be easily maintained.
Ram Pumps have been used for over two centuries in many parts of the world.
Their simplicity and reliability made them commercially successful, particularly
in Europe, in the days before electrical power and the internal combustion
engine become widely available. As technology advanced and become
increasingly reliant on sources of power derived from fossil fuels, the ram pump
was neglected. It was felt to have no relevance in an age of national electricity
grids and large - scale water supplies. Big had become beautiful and small-scale
ram pump technology was unfashionable. In recent years an increased interest
in renewable energy devices and an awareness of the technological needs of a
particular market in developing countries have prompted a reappraisal of ram

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pumps. In hilly areas with springs and streams, the potential for a simple and
reliable pumping device is large. Although there are some examples of
successful ram pump installation in developing countries, their use to date has
merely scratched at the surface of their potential. The main reason for this
being, lack of wide spread local knowledge in the design and manufacture of
ram pumps. Hence, the wide spread use of ram pumps will only occur if there
isa local manufacturer to deliver quickly; give assistance in system design,
installation, and provide an after-sales service.Ram pumps have been around for
many decades and are popular for two main reasons:
1. They need no external source of power -- the force of moving water gives them
the power they need.
2. They are extremely simple, with just two moving parts.
The basic idea behind a ram pump is simple. The pump uses the momentum of
a relatively large amount of moving water to pump a relatively small amount of
water uphill.
To use a ram pump, you must have a source of water situated above the pump.
For example, you must have a pond on a hillside so that you can locate the
pump below the pond. You run a pipe from the pond to the pump. The pump
has a valve that allows water to flow through this pipe and build up speed.
 Once the water reaches its maximum speed, this valve slams shut.
 As it slams shut, the flowing water develops a great deal of pressurein the
pump because of its inertia.
 The pressure forces open a second valve.
 High-pressure water flows through the second valve to the delivery pipe (which
usually has an air chamber to allow the delivery pipe to capture as much high-
pressure water as possible during the impulse).
 The pressure in the pump falls. The first valve re-opens to allow water to flow
and build up momentum again. The second valve closes.
 The cycle repeats.
The delivery pipe can rise some distance above both the pump and the source of
the water. For example, if the pump is 10 feet below the pond, the delivery pipe
might be up to 100 feet above the pump.

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You can see that the one big disadvantage of a ram pump is that it wastes a lot
of water. Typically, only about 10% of the water it consumes actually makes it
up the delivery pipe. The rest flows out of the pump as the water builds
momentum.
There is nothing magical happening in a ram pump. A different design that
accomplishes the same thing might work like this:
 Water flows downhill from the pond and drives a water wheel.
 The water wheel is connected to a conventional shaft-drive pump (a
reciprocating pump, a centrifugal pump, etc.)
 The pump moves water uphill.
This design has more moving parts, but it accomplishes the same thing and has
the advantage that it scales to any size very easily. The idea of using the energy
of flowing water has been around for a long time!
TECHNOLOGIS THAT AVOIDS CONSTRAIN OF WATER SUPPLY
In many parts of the world, villages are situated above the spring: it does not
allow water to flow to compounds bygravity. For example, in East Nusa
Tenggara (NTT) province, Indonesia, 70 percent of the population lives
upstream the closestsource of water. A pump is needed to lift the water from
this sourceto their compound. Dr. Terry Thomas from the Warwick University,
UK explained in 1994 that “whilst in general the power for water-lifting can
come from engines, electrical mains, animals, humans or renewable (climatic)
sources, in the particular context of rural areas in poorcountries the choice is
more constrained.
In many such countries:
There are virtually no rural electricalmains:
 Engines poseproblems of both fuelling and maintenance.
 Draught animals may be unavailable or difficult to apply to water lifting.
and Renewable are erratic, complex and import intensive.
The Hydraulic Ram Pump (Hydram) stays awayfrom these constrains:
 The sourceof energy of this technology is the water itself and gravity. It
has a low cost maintenance cost.
 It works as long as water is available.

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 The pump has very few moving parts that are simple to produce locally
and to maintain by the community itself.
2.2 Brief History
In 1772 John Whitehurst of Cheshire in the United Kingdom invented a
manually controlled precursor of the hydraulic ram called the "pulsation
engine". The first one he installed, in 1772 at Oulton, Cheshire, and raised water
to a height of 16 ft (4.9 m). He installed another in an Irish property in 1783. He
did not patent it, and details are obscure, but it is known to have had an air
vessel. The first self-acting ram pump was invented by the Frenchman Joseph
Michel Montgolfier (best known as a co-inventor of the hot air balloon) in 1796
for raising water in his paper mill at Voiron. His friend Matthew Boulton took
out a British patent on his behalf in 1797. The sons of Montgolfier obtained an
English patent for an improved version in 1816, andthis was acquired, together
with Whitehurst's design, in 1820 by Josiah Easton, a Somerset-born engineer
who had just moved to London.Easton's firm, inherited by his son James (1796–
1871), grew during the nineteenthcentury to become one of the more important
engineering manufacturers in the United Kingdom,with a large works at Erith,
Kent. They specialized in water supply and sewerage systems world- wide, as
well as land drainage projects. Eastons had a good business supplying rams for
water supply purposes to large country houses, and also to farms and village
communities, and a number of their installations still survived as of 2004. The
firm was eventually closed in 1909, but the ram business was continued by
James R Easton. In 1929 it was acquired by Green & Carter, of Winchester,
Hampshire, who were engaged in the manufacturing and installation of the well-
known Vulcan and Vacher Rams. The first US patent was issued to J. Cerneau
and S.S. Hallet in 1809. US interest in hydraulic rams picked up around 1840,
as further patents were issued and domestic companies started offering rams for

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sale. Toward the end of the 19th Century, interest waned as electricity and
electric pumps became widely available.
By the end of the twentieth century interest in hydraulic rams has revived, due
to the needs of sustainable technology in developing countries, and energy
conservation in developed ones. A good example is AID Foundation
International in the Philippines, who won an Ashden Award for their work
developing ram pumps that could be easily maintained for use in remote
villages. The hydraulic ram principle has been used in some proposals for
exploiting wave power, one of which was discussed as long ago as 1931 by
Hanns Günther in his bookin hundert Jahren.

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2.3 Working Principle of Hydraulic Ram Pump
Although hydraulic ram pumps come in a variety of shapes and sizes, they all
have the same basic components as shown in Fig. 2. The main parts of a ram
pump are hydram body, waste valve, delivery valve, snifter valve, air chamber
and relief valve. Ram Pumps have a cyclic pumping action that produces their
characteristic beat during operation. The cycle can be divided into three phases;
acceleration, delivery and recoil.
[ Fig2.-Showing the flow of water in the hydram body.]

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Acceleration - When the waste valve is open as shown in figure 2, water
accelerates down the drive pipe and discharges through the open valve. As the
flow increases it reaches a speed where the drag force is sufficient to start
closing the valve. Once it has begun to move, the valve closes very quickly.
Delivery- As the waste valve slams shut as shown in figure 3, it stops the flow
of water through it. The water that has been flowing in the drive pipe has
considerable momentum which has to bedissipated. For a fraction of a second,
the water in the body of the pump is compressed causing alarge surge in
pressure. This type of pressure rise is known as water hammer. As the
pressurerises higher than that in the air chamber, it forces water through the
delivery valve (a non-return valve).The delivery valve stays open until the water
in the drive pipe has almost completely slowed and the pressure in the pump
body drops below the delivery pressure. The delivery valve then closes,
stopping any back flow from the air vessel into the pump and drive pipe.
Recoil- The remaining flow in the drive pipe recoils against the closed delivery
valve - ratherlike a ball bouncing back. This causes the pressure in the body of
the pump to drop low enough for the waste valve to reopen. The recoil also
sucks a small amount of air in through the sniftervalve. The air sits under the
delivery valve until the next cycle when it is pumped with the delivery water
into the air vessel. This ensures that the air vessel stays full of air. When the
recoil energy is finished, water begins to accelerate down the drive pipe and out
through the open waste valve, starting the cycle again. Throughout the cycle the
pressure in the air vessel steadily forces water up the delivery pipe. The air
vessel smoothes the pulsing in flow through the delivery valve into an even
outflow up the delivery pipe. The pumping cycle happens very quickly,
typically 40 to 120 times per minute. During each pumping cycle only a very
small amount of water is pumped. However, with cycle after cycle continuing
over 24 hours, a significant amount of water can be lifted. While the ram pump

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is operating, the water flowing out the waste valve splashes onto the floor or the
pump house and is considered' waste' water. The term' waste' water needs to be
understood. Although waste water is not delivered by the ram pump, it is the
energyof this water that pups the water which is delivered.
[ Figure 3: Flow of water when waste valve is closed.]

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2.4 Theory on Hydraulic Ramp (Hydram) Pump
Energy Cars, airplanes, light bulb, water pumps, computers, the human body
have all something incommon: they need energy to work. This energy can come
from many sources such as electricity, fuel, manpower, food. Different
technologies are used to transform one source of energy to another. For
example, car engines transform the chemical energy of the fuel into mechanical
energy allowing wheels to rotate. Another example related to water supply
projects is electric pumps: they use electricity to transform electrical energy into
potential energy of the lifted water. The potential energy is the energy of every
object due to its altitude. The object needs another source of energy to be lifted
and will lose its potential energy if it falls. Hydramsare designed to lift water
(i.e. give potential energy to the water) from a low cost source of energy.
Avoiding using fuel and electricity, the water hammer effect has shown to be
efficient and is the principle of hydrams.
 No Velocity
 Very High Pressure
 Water Hammer Effect
The water hammer effect is a phenomenon that increases the pressure of a
water pipe in a short period of time.

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2.5 ENERGY
 Cars, airplanes, light bulb, water pumps, computers, the human body
have all something in common.they need energy to work. This energy can
come from many sources such as electricity, fuel, manpower, food.
Different technologies are used to transform one source of energy to
another. For example, car engines transform the chemical energy of the
fuel into mechanical energy allowing wheels to rotate. Another example
related to water supply projects is electric pumps:they use electricity to
transform electrical energy into potential energy of the lifted water.
 The potential energy is the energy of every object due to its altitude. The
object needs another source of energy to be lifted and will lose its
potential energy if it falls. Hydrams are designed to lift water (i.e. give
potential energy to the water) from a low costsourceof energy. Avoiding
using fuel and electricity, the water hammer effect has shown to be
efficient and is the principle of Hydrams.

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[Figure 4 & 5: Water hammer effect.]

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If the velocity of the water in a pipe is high enough, a fast closure of the pipe
will cause a water hammer effect as shown in Figure 4. The water flowing will
be compressed to the valve whichhas been closed suddenly. As a comparison, if
a hundred people run very fast in a corridor and suddenly, they face a closed
door, the space between them will be reduced, everybody will touch each other.
In the same way, with velocity, water has kinetic energy. By closing quickly the
pipe, this kinetic energy will be transformed into pressure. This effect is
characterized by a loud noise that is similar to a hammer banging a metal
component.

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2.6 Applications and limitations of hydraulic ram pumps
For any particular site, there are usually a number of potential water lifting
options. Choosing between them involves consideration of many different
factors. Ram pumps in certain conditions have many advantages over other
forms of water-lifting, but in others, it can be completely inappropriate. The
main advantages ofram pumps are:
 Use of a renewable energy sourceensuring low running cost.
 Pumping only a small proportion of the available flow has little
environmental impact.
 Simplicity and reliability give a low maintenance requirement
 Automatic, continuous operation requires no supervision or human input.
The main limitations are:
 They are limited in hilly areas with a year-round water sources
 They pump only a small fraction of the available flow and therefore
require sourceflows larger than actual water delivered
 Can have a high capital costin relation to other technologies
 Are limited to small-scale applications, usually up to 1KW, but this
requires economical and other considerations. Specific situations in
which other technologies may prove more appropriate are:
*In terrain where streams are falling very rapidly, it may be possible to extract
water at a point above the village or irrigation site and feed it undergravity. If
the water requirement is large and there is a large source of falling water (head
and flow rate) nearby, turbine-pump sets can provide the best solution. Many
ram pumps could be used in parallel to give the required output but at powers
over 2KW, turbine-pump systems are normally cheaper. In small-scale domestic
water supply, the choice can often be between using a ram pump on a stream or
using cleaner groundwater. Surface water will often need to be filtered or

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treated for human consumption, increasing the cost of a system and requiring
regular filter maintenance. Under these conditions, to select a hydram pump,
economical considerations compared to other technologies have to be looked
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3 DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR HYDRAM PUMP
Considerations in hydraulic ram pump system design
The following factors need to be considered in hydraulic Ram pump system
design.
 Area suitability (head and flow rate)
 Flow rate and head requirement
 Intake design
 Drive system
 Pump house location
 Delivery pipes routing
 Distribution system

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3.2 Maintenance and service life considerations
The critical parts that require frequent maintenance are bolts, studs and nuts.
Therefore, it is usually preferable to have stainless steel bolts, studs and nuts,
even though they are costly and difficult to source.
3.3 General considerations
 Shape of hydram has little effect on performance
 Valve design considerations. The correct design of valves is a critical
factor in the overall performance of ram pumps. Hence, this needs special
consideration.
 Strength considerations. This determines thickness of hydram body and
air chamber.

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3.4 Basic Parts
From the figure it shows a typical hydraulic ram installation that comprises
 Supply
 Supply pipe (drive pipe)
 Impulse valve/ waste valve/snifter valve
 Delivery valve
 Air chamber
 Delivery pipe
[ Figure 6:.basic parts ]
3.5 Pipe consideration
For all pipes being used and the hydram body, the material that we
suggested is commercial steel pipe based on the following reason:
 Strength and flexibility
 high resistance to direct heat

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 Resistant to very high pressures
 Easy to install, maintain, operate and connect
 Perfect for the extension work in pumping stations,riverbanks, steep
sloping crossingsand reservoirs
 Feature of withstanding traffic vibrations and shocks
Specifically, the types of steel pipe we suggest to use is Galvanized steel
since this type of steelis coated with zinc layer to protect steel pipes from
corroding.This form of steel provides resistance to corrosion and rust thereby
making it highly preferred to make pipes. This also helps in increasing the
overall life term of the pipe fittings as well.
3.6 Snifter valve
It is a device to allow the air to enter the air vessel located above delivery
valve but below delivery pipe. Is it very important for air to enter because air
in the air vessel mixes with water while hydram is running. As a result, the
volume of air in the air vessel decreases and this will bring about the
reduction in the pump’s efficiency, thus it is important to have snifter valve.
In short, snifter valve enable the maintenance of a necessary air level inside
the air vessel.

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4 DESIGN
When we design a water system using ram pumps, we like to know before we
build it, how much water it will deliver to how much head and with what
efficiency manually manipulating these parameters using design methodology
for different input parameters.Afterthat, we then design the hydram using
SOLIDWORKS software which a CAD (computer aideddesign) software as .
[ Figure 7: Isometric view of the hydraulic ram ]
[ Figure 8: Cross-sectional viewofthe hydraulic ram pump ]

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[ Figure 9:sectional view of the hydraulic ram pump ]
[ Figure 10 : Sectional view of delivery valve ]

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[ Figure 11: Outer viewofdelivery valve ]
[ Figure 12: Cross-sectional view of waste valve ]

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[Figure 13 (a): Sectional view of waste valve ]
[ Figure 13 (b): Sectional viewofwaste valve ]

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[ Figure 13(c): Outer view of waste valve ]
[ figure 14:Entire assembled figure]

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4.1 Component ussed
DESIGN
as When we design a water system using ram pumps, we like to know before we
build it, how much water it will deliver to how much head and with what
efficiency manually manipulating these parameters using design methodology
for different input parameters.Afterthat, we then design the hydram using
SOLIDWORKS software which a CAD (computer aideddesign) software.

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SR. NO. NAME OF
MATERIAL
SIZE & TYPE
1. BALL TYPE VALVE UPVC(1”inch)
2. T-JOINT UPVC(1”)
3. UNION UPVC(1”)
4. NON RETURNABLE
VALVE(LAYER
TYPE)
BRASS(1”)
5. SPRING TYPE NON
RETURNABLE
VALVE
BRASS(1”)
6. T-JOINT UPVC(1”)
7. BALL TYPE VALVE UPVC(1/2”)
8. UNION UPVC(1/2”)
9. REDUCER UPVC(1” TO ½” inch)

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10. VALVE UPVC(1/2”)
11. WATER PRESSURE
MEASUREMENT
MET.
SS
12. PIPE REDUCER UPVC TO PVC
13. PRESSURE
CHAMBER ENDCAP
PVC(4”)
15. PRESSURE
CHAMBER WITH
INNERSIDE TUBE
FILLED
PVC(dia=4”inch,length=3.5foot)
Connections Note Read through the instructable and understand all the pipe-
fitting connections that will happen before buying materials. The store may not
have exactly what you're looking for, and you may have to improvise. I wound
up getting some different parts because my local store didn't have the exact
parts I was looking for. This usually appears in the form of not having a
threaded fitting, but having a smooth pipe connection, or vice versa. Not a
problem, you can figure it out.
Installation Materials
 Long section of 1-1/4" PVC ("drive pipe", connects pump to water supply)
 Garden Hose (male end threads into 3/4" union, supplies pumped water)
 Bricks, blocks, rocks to prop up and anchor pump
 Shower Drain assembly (must be able to attach to 1-1/4" pipe, for attaching
pipe to water supply)
Build Materials and Tools
 PVC Primer (I used Oatey Purple Primer)
 PVC Cement (Oatey again, just what they had)
 Teflon Thread Tape
 Hacksaw
 Measuring Tape

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 Clamps
 Pocket Knife
 Lab gloves (keeps the chemicals on the pipe and off your hands)
 Bike Pump (to inflate the innertube).
4.3 OPERATIONAL FIGUERE EXPLINATION
 as shown in below figures operation perform under these
figures.
(1) Water (blue arrows) starts flowing through the drive pipe and out of the
"waste" valve (#4 on the diagram), which is open initially. Water flows
faster and faster through the pipe and out of the valve.

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(2) At some point, water is moving so quickly through the brass swing check
"waste" valve (#4) that it grabs the swing check's flapper, pulling it up and
slamming it shut. The water in the pipe is moving quickly and doesn'twant
to stop. All that water weight and momentum is stopped, though, by the
valve slamming shut. That makes a high pressure spike (red arrows) at the
closed valve. The high pressure spike forces some water (blue arrows)
through the spring check valve (#5 on the diagram) and into the pressure
chamber. This increases the pressure in that chamber slightly. The pressure
"spike" the pipe has nowhere else to go, so it begins moving away from the
waste valve and back up the pipe (red arrows). It actually generates a very
small velocity *backward* in the pipe.

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(3) As the pressure wave or spike (red arrows) moves back up the pipe, it
creates a lower pressure situation (green arrows) at the waste valve. The
spring-loaded check valve (#5) closes as the pressure drops, retaining the
pressure in the pressurechamber.

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(4) At some point this pressure (green arrows) becomes low enough that the
flapper in the waste valve (#4) falls back down, opening the waste valve again.

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5) Most of the water hammer high pressure shockwave (red arrows) will
release at the drive pipe inlet, which is open to the sourcewater body. Some
small portion may travel back down the drive pipe, but in any case after the
shockwave has released, pressure begins to build again at the waste valve (#4)
simply due to the elevation of the sourcewater above the ram, and water
begins to flow toward the hydraulic ram again.
(6) Water begins to flow out of the waste valve (#4), and the process starts over
once again.
Steps 1 through 6 describe in layman's terms a complete cycle of a hydraulic
ram pump. Pressure wave theory will explain the technical details of why a
hydraulic ram pump works, but we only need to know it works. The ram pump
will usually go through this cycle about once a second, perhaps somewhat more
quickly or more slowly depending on the installation. Each "pulse" or cycle
pushes a little more pressure into the pressurechamber. If the outlet valve is left
shut, the ram will build up to some maximum pressure (called shut off head on
pumps) and stop working.

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4.2 SUGGESTION FOR FUTURE
One of the suggestion that can be apply is to use a bigger supply pipe to obtain
a largeamount of water so that more water can be delivered to tank. In this
report we use supply pipewith diameter of 0.1m, and we get only aboutflowrate
and it is just about1% of compared to the river’s flowrate. Bigger supply pipe
will increase the flowrate, but wealso need to increase size of hydram to cope
with bigger force that the water carries. It is not necessary to increase the
delivery pipe because referring to continuity equation, the flowrate across a pipe
is same. Since we already increase the flowrate of water by increasing the
diameter of supply pipe, thus with the same diameter of delivery pipe we can
get achieve a higher velocity of water flowing to the tank. But if we increase the
diameter of supply pipe tremendously we may also need to increase the delivery
pipe diameter so that more water can be delivered withhigh velocity. We can
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is for us manipulate the velocity of water flowing since we cannot do anything
to the river. We know from continuity equation that the property that is shared
between the river, and waterflowing to supply pipe is the velocity. So if we find
any solution to increase the velocity, we could increase the flowrate in the pipe
thus increasing the pumping rate of the hydram.For the most optimum
performance of the hydram is to apply both of the suggestion but we need first
to consider the necessity of such high pumping rate according to usage of the
water delivered. If we were able to deliver a lot of water to the tank, but later we
will only just use some of it, then it will be a waste and will cost us high. Thus
we first need to identify thenecessary amount of water needed. From there we
try to adjust so that we can fulfill the demand with the minimum cost.
5 CONCLUSION
From the objective stated, we have come out the solutions from the study of
our hydraulic ramp pump (hydram), the modifications and assumptions made
were counted and the calculations give the exact answers for this project.From
the results obtained, we have found out that:-
A) There is broad prospectofutilizing the country's abundant surface water
run off potential for various purposes orrequirements using locally
designed and manufactured hydraulic ram pumps and other similar
appropriate technologies.
B) To disseminate hydrams at potential sites throughout the country, there is
a need to create awareness through training and seek integrated work
with rural community, government institutions like water, energy and
mines bureau of local regions and non-governmental organizations.

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C) Hydraulic Ram pumps made by casting have many advantages, but they
could be expensive. In addition, considering the costof civil work and
pipe installation, the initial investment could be very high. To reduce cost
of hydrams made by casting, there is a need for standardization.
Standardizing hydram pump size will also have an advantage to reduce
costof spare parts and facilitate their easy access when they are needed.
D) The use of appropriate means of treating river water should be
looked at in conjunction with any development project of
domestic water supply using hydrams.
6 REFRANCE
1) Fluid power engineering [Techmax]
2) Fluid power engineering [R.s. khurmi]
3) Fluid mechanics [Techmax]
4) CAD/CAM [Techmax]
5) Internet

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