Determination of Hydraulic Ram Pump Performance: Experimental Results

Table 1

Measuring devices specifications.

Measurement	Instrument/manufacturer	Range	Accuracy (%)	Resolution
Pressure
At the drive pipe and	Pressure transducer	0–2.5 bar	±0.25	0.0001 bar
At the delivery pipe	Seimens SITRANS P200	0–4 bar	±0.25	0.0001 bar
At the air chamber	Burdon-tube gage	0–12 bar	—	0.5 bar
Water flow rate	Ultrasonic flow meter
At the drive pipe of flow	Seimens SITRANS FUP1010	±12 m/s	±0.5% to 2	0.1 L/min