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

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.



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