A hydraulic ram pump is environmentally friendly devices using the energy from a stream ofwater falling from a low head as the driving power to pump part of the water to a head much higherthan the supply head for agricultural or domestic use. In the use of this pump, one of factors thatinfluence the performance is ratio of drive pipe length to diameter (L/D). This paper presents theexperimental study of effect of ratio of drive pipe length to diameter on hydraulic ram pumpdesigning model. This hydraulic ram pump designing model is tested on various ratio of drive pipelength to diameter, namely 158, 165, 176, and 202. The results of the testing of the model hydraulicram pump shows that the operation of this pump should use the ratio of drive pipe length todiameter (L/D) of 176. Using supply head of 1 m and volume of air chamber of 5702,754 cm3, watercan be pumped with the volume flow rate of 3 lit/min to the height of 8,5 m, and the efficiency ofthis pump is 78,7 %. The data of the testing results also show that using the volume of air chamberof 4562,203 cm3, and supply head of 1 m, this model of hydraulic ram pump can lift water of 2,727lit/min to the height of 9,5 m with the maximum efficiency of 87,96 %.
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