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Pulser Pump

Pulser Pump. Gaiatech Applications for the pump. Long-term Goal. The goal is to bring the pulser pump into use around the world and to develop it so that it can reach its full potential. Customer Wishes.

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Pulser Pump

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  1. Pulser Pump Gaiatech Applications for the pump

  2. Long-term Goal • The goal is to bring the pulser pump into use around the world and to develop it so that it can reach its full potential

  3. Customer Wishes • The customers will be a mixture of farmers, small villagers and small businesses around the world. • Pulser pumps require flowing water to work. Recomended minimum of half meter of head and 600 liters per minute of flow per minute would be a guideline but it depends on the site and rewquirements of the user.

  4. Filling the Users Needs • Pulser pump attributes • Easy to construct. • Reliable • Can be made from local materials. • Simple to use • Cannot be subverted to power wasteful consumer things like tv. • Local power for local use. Helps slow down the drift to big cities.

  5. Cost Analysis • The financial advantage for villagers with strong backs and no money is a masive one. It is a first step towards using their waterpower which was unavailable before. • Quality and price of competition devices initially seems far greater. With Hydroelectricity, for instance, the water power is converted more efficiently to electricity BUT initial cost is often prohibitive, and a relatively massive support system is needed.

  6. Strengths and Advantages • There are no moving parts. This means greater reliability. • The river is efficiently oxygenated. • Local production for local use • Enables very poor communitys. • The skills needed to make and operate a pulser pump are not so high as to make an elete group who will migrate to greater opportunity and leave the villagers helpless • Not easy to waste the power on tv etc.

  7. Next Steps of Action • A videoclip or realtime webcam of a working pulser pump is desperately needed. Only then, will people believe in the concept of the pump. • A few people or groups around the world need to make pulser pumps and communicate with each other or with me to develop it further • The pumping with foam balls option needs to be develloped.

  8. Institutonal science • I have been in contact with scientists who believe that this device is worthy of research. • Funding is the difficulty. • There are no bells and whistles. • Consiquently it is not EXCITING enough. • One man said that the administrators would happily spend thousands on the latest high tech teaching aid BUT would find difficulty funding the repair of a broken shelf

  9. Applications • Pump water • Wash sand for building • Pump air for sewage aeration fish tank aeration • Producing partial vacuum • Washer drier

  10. Simplicity is a virtue! • The pulser pump is really simple and can consist of a few pipes in a hole dug in the ground • The design can be changed to suit local conditions, skills and materials

  11. Pulser parts Part 1 The Tromp • The pulser pump is half tromp (in red) • Tromps were used in the last century to provide compressed air for • Mine ventilation and machines • Tunnel building • Air powered electricity generators

  12. Part 2 The Airlift Pump • (Part in red) • Airlift pumps are used to pump hasardous materials, water from very deep wells, and archeological artifacts from the ocean floor to the surface.

  13. More on airlift pumps • Airlift pumps are generally powered by a high compresion air compressor.Pulser pumps are powered by a Low compression tromp. • This means that a different type of flow occurs. Slug or plug flow

  14. Easy to lay pipes from a to b • It is not necessary to pump straight up to a header tank. • As long as the down pipe is vertical the the pump will work. The pipe to the user can meander along the ground or go straight Up

  15. Improvements possible • Pulser pumps are at an early stage of development. • The moving diagram here illustrates how the efficiency can be improved by using balls as pistons

  16. The end of the beginning! • I have been advocating pulser pumps since the late 80's. Since then they have appeared in print, on cd rom and people round the world have seen the webpages. • I have recently been told that testing has started in Kenya. • You can help my effort by joining the pulser pump yahoo group, making a model, making a pump, webcamming a pulser pump or just publizing the pump. • If you start now, you might even go into the tech history books! Brian White feb 2002

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