Author(s): Noor Azme Omar, Icahri Chatta, Mohd Baharum Muhammad Din, Mohd Fauzi Mohamad, Mohd Kamarul Huda Samion, Ahmad Farhan Hamzah, Mohd Khairul Nizar Shamsuddin, Mohd Radzi Abd Hamid
Linked Author(s): Noor Azme Omar
Keywords: Gravity flow, ram pump, water resources, testing conditions, kinetic energy
Abstract: The provision of adequate domestic water supply for the scattered rural population is a major problem in many developing countries including Malaysia. Operation for the common pumping system has become an issue of water supply to rural and remote areas due to a few reasons such as power supply shortage, inaccessible infrastructure and new settlement. In order to minimize the problem, a study was conducted in NAHRIM's laboratory using ram pump technology. The aim of the study is to identify the performance of ram pump for achieving sustained performance at optimum operational condition in laboratory scale. The testing component consisted of the ram pump and inverter controlled pumping system with a series of pipelines. A total of 2 testing conditions were conducted during the study, which were the dam simulation and river simulation with 6 testing scenarios. It was found that the ram pump could transfer 10% of the total volume of water sources from any open channel using only kinetic energy. The result of this study also found that the ram pump has a potential in supplying water for rural and remote settlement area especially near the river
Year: 2017