Rancang Bangun dan Uji Eksperimental Pengaruh Variasi Panjang Driven Pipe dan Diameter Air Chamber terhadap Efisiensi Pompa Hidram

Abstract

Water is a source of life for living things. Place that far away for the water sources require pumps to move it. In general, centrifugal pumps are used to it, but these pumps require electricity or fuel to operate, and electrical energy or fuel, it can sometimes be an obstacle. The hydraulic ram pump is the solution of this problem because it doesn't use electricity or fuel, can operate 24 hours, it's cheap and easy to made. This research is done to know influence variation long driven pipe and diameter of air chamber against efficiency of hydraulic ram pump. The hydraulic ram pump used on this experiment has 1,5 inch inlet pipe and 0,5 inch outlet pipe. The variations of the driven pipe are 8 m , 10 m , and 12 m. The variations of the diameter of air chamber are 3 inch and 4 inch. The result shows that the maximum efficiency obtained at variations long driven pipe 8 m and diameter air chamber 3 inch, is equal to 37%.