Engineering Projects/Hydraulic ram/Howard Community College/Fall2012/p1501ATandT

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Problem Statement

To create a pump that will successfully move water against gravity several hundred feet without using electricity.

Team Members

Aaron Brent

Timothy Fries

Tolulope Ajayi

Story

The group met and decided on a problem statement. We researched how a hydraulic ram works, and looked at examples of hydraulic rams that others had built. We found two Youtube videos particularly helpful, Links are here and here. The first video shows a ram that is approximately the same size as the one that we set out to build as an initial design. The second video is of a much larger ram, and may be the inspiration for a later expansion of the project.

1/2" Hydraulic Ram Design Concept

for the second week we decided to get a comprehensive list of the materials we needed for the ram; in addition we made a decision rubric on what size the prototype and the real ram would be.

Decision List

1. On what size the prototype and real ram would be

2. whether to make prototype with a 1/2" waste valve or 1"

Material List

1. waste valve

2. snifter valve

3. non-return valve

4. PVC pipes

5. pressure tank

6. pipes

7. water pressure guages

8. T-joins

9. Regular joins

10. PVC cement

11. 1" diameter steel pipe

12. 3" PVC cape

Tutorials

Here are some tutorials on how to build an hydraulic ram that were produced by outside sources

1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrythkYDIg

2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-cGi1rF6yQ&feature=fvwberel

3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkrWEAyYhbU