Effect of Waste Valve Tuning on Hydraulic Ram Pump Efficiency

Alexius Johanis, Rafael Mado, Hero Dida

2021

Abstract

A community that lives far away from an electrical power source has a problem in moving water from lowland water source location to higher location as their needs, one option to solving this problem is using hydraulic ram pump whose energy is the pressure that resulted from water hammer effect caused by the sudden stop of the water flow into the pump through its drive pipe. Some areas have a large quantity of water flow while others must deal with a limited water source, lead to the need for optimal pump efficiency. In This paper, a study on the effects of waste valve tuning on the efficiency of three inches sized hydraulic ram pump was conducted by varying the weight and stroke of the waste valve. From the experiments data and statistic correlation analysis resulting that both factors influence the efficiency as well as the interaction between them. The optimal setting for the best efficiency is at 1 kg of valve weight and 10 millimeters of valve stroke, give 70.45 % of efficiency.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Johanis A., Mado R. and Dida H. (2021). Effect of Waste Valve Tuning on Hydraulic Ram Pump Efficiency. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Engineering Science - Volume 1: iCAST-ES, ISBN 978-989-758-615-6, pages 237-242. DOI: 10.5220/0010943000003260

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icast-es21,
author={Alexius Johanis and Rafael Mado and Hero Dida},
title={Effect of Waste Valve Tuning on Hydraulic Ram Pump Efficiency},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Engineering Science - Volume 1: iCAST-ES,},
year={2021},
pages={237-242},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010943000003260},
isbn={978-989-758-615-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Engineering Science - Volume 1: iCAST-ES,
TI - Effect of Waste Valve Tuning on Hydraulic Ram Pump Efficiency
SN - 978-989-758-615-6
AU - Johanis A.
AU - Mado R.
AU - Dida H.
PY - 2021
SP - 237
EP - 242
DO - 10.5220/0010943000003260