Pumping Water Without Electricity - The Breurram

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  • čas přidán 17. 08. 2024
  • The breuram is a type of hydraulic ram pump or water ram made almost completely from off-the-shelf components. It allows you to pump water without using any electricity.
    A written building manual of the Breurram can be found here:
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  • @WOT_utwente
    @WOT_utwente  Před 3 lety +135

    We would love to know about people who have built a breurram themselves. We are also interested in the experience people have with this pump; positive or negative. If you have built a breurram or tried to build one, please consider commenting about it below, or contacting us via our website. www.wot.utwente.nl/en/about-the-wot/contact

    • @ogi22
      @ogi22 Před 3 lety +10

      This is a bit different version of something called the "ram pump". Works on exactly the same principle and if you search for it, many people made clips on how they build their own.

    • @SirBigzalot
      @SirBigzalot Před 3 lety +3

      As someone with an interest in aquatics I’m currently researching ways to run things more cost effectively and as conservatively as possible. This looks like a possible solution for running a constant circulation in a pond or aquarium. I’m trying to theorize if it’s possible to find a way to capture the wasted vented water on the up cycle so as not to empty out the aquarium. Maybe by encapsulating the valve in larger bore acting as a return pipe? Or would the pressure of being under water stop it from functioning properly on the up stroke?

    • @ogi22
      @ogi22 Před 3 lety +14

      @@SirBigzalot Sounds like you are searching for a hydraulic version of a Perpetuum Mobile ;)
      "Waist water" is not called this at a whim. The water is not "wasted", it is still there, but it's potential/kinetic energy was used to push that small amount higher.
      If you try to put it in a closed system, it will never run continuously.
      That's why it is used in open systems with constant fresh water intake to replenish lost energy for pumping.

    • @Yrocsrelles
      @Yrocsrelles Před 3 lety +1

      @@SirBigzalot maybe try capturing it and sending it back to the aquarium?

    • @jeaniebird999
      @jeaniebird999 Před 2 lety +4

      @@ogi22
      Ram pump is an abbreviation of Breurram pump.

  • @thomasbarlow4223
    @thomasbarlow4223 Před 3 lety +2700

    One day I will need this.... And I'm sure it'll be when the internet is down

    • @foxhazhax4845
      @foxhazhax4845 Před 3 lety +57

      Aint that always the way lol

    • @lubricatedgoat
      @lubricatedgoat Před 3 lety +54

      Understand it completely and you'll never need to worry about that. Maybe build one?

    • @foxhazhax4845
      @foxhazhax4845 Před 3 lety +54

      @@lubricatedgoat cant speak for anyone else but now that the device has been explained and demonstrated to me and I understand the mechanical principle on which it operates I feel fully confident in my ability to reproduce one should the need ever arise.

    • @lubricatedgoat
      @lubricatedgoat Před 3 lety +11

      @@foxhazhax4845 same. I'm even thinking of ways to improve it or incorporate a microcontroller.

    • @foxhazhax4845
      @foxhazhax4845 Před 3 lety +23

      It works the same way the phenomenon we call "water hammer" works, Momentum is just a consequence of inertia.

  • @SoLowKaspar
    @SoLowKaspar Před rokem +138

    My grandfather has this on his property and the water lost is collected and then pumped back into the main holding tank he's getting his water from. He told me thats its "basically only 1/4 water loss. If more tanks are added for collection you can go down to 1/8 loss, 1/16 loss and so on with enough tanks and slopes." He uses this pump for his house plumbing. its pumped into a make-shift water tower then gravity fed into his home to maintain water pressure. Pretty awesome

    • @ddjohnson9717
      @ddjohnson9717 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@JuneAtHomePHno. this pump is basically treading large amount of water flow speed for small amount of water hight. a well do not have a large flow speed so this pump can not be used

    • @capitanspoiler7393
      @capitanspoiler7393 Před 10 měsíci +2

      but if you need to use a pump to get the lost water back into the tank then why not just use a pump for the job instead of adding steps to it?

  • @TheSiriusEnigma
    @TheSiriusEnigma Před 3 lety +750

    This is just a different way of making a ram pump. The valves act the same way. The yellow tube act as the air tank. Nice to see alternative designs.

    • @Wornout1
      @Wornout1 Před 3 lety +15

      Thinking the same myself.cheers

    • @chrihern
      @chrihern Před 3 lety +10

      Nice comment, i was wondering why air was need in the system.

    • @dannydetonator
      @dannydetonator Před 3 lety +19

      Maby it's the same phisics, but people who know about the existance of ram-pump is in vast minority. Personally never knew this was possible. Only knew about ram-jet, much harder to build and get going. Gratitude.

    • @MarcelYT16
      @MarcelYT16 Před 3 lety +29

      Yes, that's why it's called the breurram. The word "ram" is written the same in Dutch and English and has the same meaning.

    • @lmack3024
      @lmack3024 Před 3 lety +6

      Slightly different in that is doesn't necessarily require **flowing** water, just a height difference between the device and the water source. Could be used in a pond (natural or artificial) which to my understanding is unsuitable for a normal ram pump. Definitely the same method of operation though, you're right about that

  • @breesparks560
    @breesparks560 Před 3 lety +1261

    Wow the cutaway at 1:56 is excellent! Not sure how long it took you to make but it demonstrates ram pump operation beautifully! Best visual learning aid on yt I’ve seen. Thank you!

    • @Eyes0penNoFear
      @Eyes0penNoFear Před 3 lety +20

      I thought the same thing. Bravo!

    • @matc87
      @matc87 Před 3 lety +16

      yea my thoughts exactly. seen alot of ram pump vids..none like this though

    • @lubricatedgoat
      @lubricatedgoat Před 3 lety +14

      It was.... glorious!!

    • @luigis9325
      @luigis9325 Před 3 lety +2

      I’d really like to know whitch software did you use for make this auented reality cad stuff. Thanks in advance for your reply

    • @luigis9325
      @luigis9325 Před 2 lety +1

      @@calvinasinhobbes wao, i’ve never thought something like that. Thanks

  • @HL65536
    @HL65536 Před rokem +283

    Interesting. This seems to be the water equivalent of the boost converter circuit in electronics, which uses a low voltage high current source to produce a high voltage at lower current.

    • @fluffigverbimmelt
      @fluffigverbimmelt Před rokem +9

      It reminded me of that, too

    • @pseudotasuki
      @pseudotasuki Před rokem +19

      I was thinking the same thing and might have it figured out. The main valve is equivalent to the transistor, the output valve is the diode, and the input pipe is the inductor.
      The biggest difference is that electrical current doesn't have useful momentum, so the boost converter can't use a passive component (like a spring) to regulate the switching.

    • @l3p3
      @l3p3 Před rokem +1

      Isn't the efficiency in electronics much higher? Here, most of thd water gets lost.

    • @HL65536
      @HL65536 Před rokem +6

      @@l3p3 In electronics, the "water" is electrons and most of them indeed don't reach the high voltage level. They "sacrifice" their energy to give the few electrons that make it. These then have higher energy per electron (i.e. voltage)

    • @moggtheboss3087
      @moggtheboss3087 Před rokem +4

      I realised a while ago that everything physical has an electrical equivalent to a degree

  • @kalinystazvoruna8702
    @kalinystazvoruna8702 Před 3 lety +384

    Back in the early 2000s, I attempted to build one of these to pump water from my spring box into my garden. I spent nearly $500 for parts because I could not get the damned thing to work, until I read a book by Gene Logsdon which told me what my problem was. For the pump to work you need a *minimum* of three feet (1 meter) vertical height from where your input water is *down* to where the ram pump is, otherwise there simply isn't enough potential energy to run the pump for longer than five minutes or so. Since the springbox down to the bottom of the creek was only two feet, the pump wouldn't work. Instead, I ended up with a 30 watt solar panel and a bilge pump which now pumps water into the garden for irrigation.

    • @markpetersen912
      @markpetersen912 Před 3 lety +11

      Just throwing out some thoughts... Could you raise the containment level of the springbox another 1.5 feet and then have the potential (plus a little extra) to make this breuram/ram pump function?

    • @kalinystazvoruna8702
      @kalinystazvoruna8702 Před 3 lety +21

      @@markpetersen912 No. Spring box was made back in the 1940s ? 50s? maybe earlier? and it's solid concrete attached to another spring box that was probably made back in what I suspect was the early 1900s. The whole area was filled in between the two spring boxes which were approximately 40-50 feet apart. The early one had a 6" cast iron pipe linking the two and has rusted to the point that the land between the "new" spring box and the "old" spring box has eroded about 10-15 feet making the whole area sink. It was originally the only way I could get onto the other side of the property without building a bridge over the creek. It's extremely dangerous to go anywhere near there now without the possibility of injury or even death because the drop is about 5 or six feet from the edge to where I "think" the bottom of the creek is. My solar solution works well, however and have used that for nearly 15 years.

    • @Zalethon
      @Zalethon Před 3 lety +19

      Thanks for noting this... I was definitely wondering what force was driving the water into the pump, this video hardly mentions it at all!

    • @randomstuff1019
      @randomstuff1019 Před 3 lety +14

      @@Zalethon it uses the kinetic energy of flowing water, specifically jerk (that's a change of acceleration over time. Or v/t^2) The pressure spike of all that flowing water screeching to a stop shoves a small amount of water up the yellow hose. Then the valves switch and the water starts moving again to pick up the momentum to do it again.

    • @Zalethon
      @Zalethon Před 3 lety +7

      @@randomstuff1019 Thanks for your explanation; I get how the pump itself works, once it has water flowing into it. The video just didn't make clear how water was being fed to the pump.

  • @KrappiTheClown
    @KrappiTheClown Před rokem +81

    My dad made one of these for his holiday home before I was born, and it's still in use. I used to know enough about how it worked to change gaskets and water proofing tape, and hopefully my brother still does. I think dad had to change one component at some point, but apart from that... gaskets. Edit: Forgot to mention, i'm 55 years old.

    • @Palemagpie
      @Palemagpie Před rokem

      Are you sure it wasn't a ram pump he built? They're similar and do pulse waste water. But last far longer due to alot less moving parts?
      I only ask because there's one in the Mourne mountains in Ireland that's been running for the last 200 odd years so I know they're much longer lasting.

    • @KrappiTheClown
      @KrappiTheClown Před rokem

      @@Palemagpie It's quite possible I'm getting them mixed up.

    • @AdmiralStoicRum
      @AdmiralStoicRum Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@Palemagpiethis is a rampump

  • @joehall3459
    @joehall3459 Před 3 lety +52

    Like your air cushion idea over other ram pumps. Simplify simplify simplify. Must go build one now and do some test.

  • @57thorns
    @57thorns Před 2 lety +24

    I have seen several descriptions of how this kind of pump works, but you are the first one to show the trick with the air bubble as a buffer. Well done.

  • @emberklavins9567
    @emberklavins9567 Před 3 lety +74

    ‘tis a hydraulic self-oscillating boost converter. I love it.

    • @thewii552
      @thewii552 Před 3 lety +11

      This is exactly what I was going to comment. Love it when you can have a mechanical equivalent to an electric system.

    • @danloeser
      @danloeser Před 3 lety +4

      Same here, I'm looking at that pulse and thinking, "this is a boost converter!" 😆

    • @nintendogamer5472
      @nintendogamer5472 Před 3 lety +1

      @@danloeser similar to a waste gate that controls boost on a turbocharged vehicle.

    • @fredriks5090
      @fredriks5090 Před 3 lety

      This is how the Giza pyramid (blueprint) used to pump water away from the dammed up areas that the Pharaoh's ancestors fled from.
      Osiris is a water-being (a verison of poseidon) Enki is a water-being, and AztaAtlTlan where the Aztecs claim heritage means "land of water birds".
      Giza is just the most advanced copy of whatever pump technology coastline people could come up with before all the old coasts inevitably got flooded.
      There was NO "high technology", - just manipulation of occillations and the knowledge of advantageous erosion that followed, - allowing egyptians to take advantage of possibly a couple thousand years of dam/pumping knowledge from wherever migrants came from.
      The kings/queens chamber "roof" could be where the original builders let the overflow of the Nile flow into an aqueduct system above ground in order to water their crops, while using the pressurized end of the loop to aid with the cutting of sandstone.

  • @shanel4348
    @shanel4348 Před rokem +3

    This is some really useful and interesting application of water pressure! Going down the CZcams rabbit hole at nearly 3 AM yields its benefits. 10/10

  • @PseudoEmpathy
    @PseudoEmpathy Před rokem +10

    For anyone wondering, the system is using the momentum of the flow to store elastic potential energy in the pipe system, at peak elastic potential, the stored energy is released into the high pressure element and used to move the fluid fractionally within the high pressure system, once the energy is used, the cycle repeats, flow increases, stop engages, energy builds up, is released into high pressure and repeat.

    • @edew9180
      @edew9180 Před 11 měsíci

      So, water hammer, basically, right?

    • @ddjohnson9717
      @ddjohnson9717 Před 11 měsíci

      @@edew9180yes

    • @Aurora99aroruA
      @Aurora99aroruA Před 11 měsíci +1

      Right, so basically the potential energy of a large amount of water is used to pump a small amount of it further up than it came down.

  • @Infinite_Curiosity00
    @Infinite_Curiosity00 Před 3 lety +243

    Seems like the loss water could be used for a biological purpose since it is aerated. Possibly a fish/aquaponics farm if dug below the base of the tower?

    • @tanmaypanadi1414
      @tanmaypanadi1414 Před 3 lety +23

      I was thinking just making a bamboo water channels or using pipes and irrigate a little garden playing around with slopes.

    • @lightdark00
      @lightdark00 Před 3 lety +40

      Over time it would be too much constant water, best to get it back ti the river.

    • @freevbucks8019
      @freevbucks8019 Před 3 lety +8

      Or throw it back in the same tank

    • @derpionderpson1424
      @derpionderpson1424 Před 3 lety +7

      @@freevbucks8019 wouldn’t be efficient, you would use more energy getting it back in the tank then you saved by using this pump in the first place…
      The best solution would be to have it spill back out into the river.

    • @freevbucks8019
      @freevbucks8019 Před 3 lety +2

      @@derpionderpson1424 if you take it from the river and pump it just above the river it's like free energy

  • @robertcammack902
    @robertcammack902 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Back in the forties I knew a man who had one of these - quite large and made of cast iron. In those days they used to call it a 'pulsometer'. He lived by a snall hill which had a spring near the top. He used the machine to pump water up to the tank on the roof and the excess water flowed back into the stream. You could hear it clacking a long way off. For a boy of eight it was quite facinating.

  • @haydenlinder
    @haydenlinder Před 11 měsíci +4

    Wow that cross-section overlay was really well done. Very educational!

  • @kevinbyrne4538
    @kevinbyrne4538 Před 3 lety +82

    Breurram = a form of ram pump (which is powered by water hammer)

    • @Stevedawhoop
      @Stevedawhoop Před rokem

      How many type of ram pump are there? What’re the advantages and disadvantages between them?

    • @kevinbyrne4538
      @kevinbyrne4538 Před rokem +3

      @@Stevedawhoop -- All ram pumps are basically the same design. There are minor variations among the components.

  • @ericcoon2787
    @ericcoon2787 Před 3 lety +6

    Very fancy cutaway graphic. Wasn’t expecting that at all. I’m sure it took a while to render but was well worth it.

  • @newdawn8477
    @newdawn8477 Před rokem +7

    Been using this style in NZ for 50+ years. (known as a Williamson ram pump)
    There is a version that you can use waste water to move clean water.

  • @NickRoman
    @NickRoman Před 11 měsíci +1

    You're translating gravitational potential energy from a lot of water flowing down a slope into a little bit of water going straight up. Genius.

  • @dazaspc
    @dazaspc Před rokem +12

    These do work and are great for pumping water from a stream or river as they loose about 95% of the water out of the pump. That is before the head becomes an issue. However you still need to drain the waste water and the pump needs to be at least a meter below the surface. Basically almost a syphonable layout height.

  • @Jrod_FPV
    @Jrod_FPV Před 3 lety +19

    Super cool! Converting gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy, then back to gravitational potential energy!

  • @paulosullivan3472
    @paulosullivan3472 Před rokem +1

    Had never heard of this pump before and must admit I came here thinking it was going to be another perpetual motion machine proposed on youtube but instead I found a very cool new pump design I had never heard of, thanks!

  • @dominiklukacs7677
    @dominiklukacs7677 Před rokem +2

    The air bubble in the tube is so smart. I never would have thought about such a simple solution

  • @peterjensen6954
    @peterjensen6954 Před 2 lety +7

    really cool, actually works as a really good physical analogy of the function of a step-up converter

  • @ianbottom7396
    @ianbottom7396 Před 2 lety +8

    Nice job 👍
    At 3:46 you are applying your thread tape the hard way, hold the tape roll on your right index finger with the middle running on the outside, now roll off the backside of the tape onto the fitting. This allows simple smooth control of tension and length simultaneously

  • @sixstringedthing
    @sixstringedthing Před rokem +2

    If I understand the principles behind this pump correctly, it's basically like a lever, but for lifting a liquid rather than a solid mass.
    It utilises gravitational potential energy and some basic principles of hydrodynamics (pressure vs. flow) to obtain a mechanical advantage that allows the water to be lifted to an impressive height.
    Very cool, thanks for sharing this!

    • @GasPoweredTomato
      @GasPoweredTomato Před 11 měsíci

      It might be easier to explain using water hammer. When the flow is suddenly cut off the moving water “hammers” the other valve open, lifting the water.

  • @HenrikMyrhaug
    @HenrikMyrhaug Před 3 lety +81

    From an energy standpoint, it seems logical that you can only get at most Δx/Δn of the water up to an elevation, where Δx is the difference in height from the top of the water tank to the pump and Δn is the height above the pump that the water is pumped to.

    • @karljay7473
      @karljay7473 Před 3 lety +6

      Once you've brought the water up to a certain height, you can use that to pump less water up to a higher height. Example you can use a simple pump so once the water is 20 feet high, you can use that to operate a pump to raise half the water up to maybe 30 feet high. You end up with less water at the higher height, but you're getting free energy anyway, so it doesn't matter.

    • @HenrikMyrhaug
      @HenrikMyrhaug Před 3 lety +13

      @@karljay7473 You don't get free energy from it, since all the energy the rising water gets is transfered from the other water that fell down to the water that's lifted.

    • @karljay7473
      @karljay7473 Před 3 lety +7

      @@HenrikMyrhaug How much do you pay for the energy that lifts the water? You pay nothing for it, therefore it's free. You can pump 100 gallons 20 feet for free, then you use that 100 gallons to move 50 gallons to a higher level, maybe 40 feet... You start the process wanting X gallons to be 100 feet, so you move 5X gallons 20 feet, 4X gallons 40 feet, 3X gallons 60 feet, etc... It doesn't cost you any money to move X gallons 100 feet as no electric pumps are being used. Free, in this case, means that you are using nature, just as it doesn't cost you money for water to flow down a hill.

    • @HenrikMyrhaug
      @HenrikMyrhaug Před 3 lety +17

      @@karljay7473 Sorry, I thought you meant "free energy" as in generating more energy than the ammount that already exists and is put into the system, which is impossible.
      You'll definitely get to pump water almost as high as you want without putting more energy into the system than what already exists.

    • @karljay7473
      @karljay7473 Před 3 lety +2

      @@HenrikMyrhaug No problem, even the "free" isn't 100% free because you have to build or buy the pump, but once you buy it, it's free to operate. We could have a lot more of these setup in dams all over and generate even more energy.

  • @VerticalWit
    @VerticalWit Před 3 lety +15

    Wow! This is exactly how a voltage step-up converter works

  • @mansurazeez2229
    @mansurazeez2229 Před 3 lety +14

    Ram pump without air chamber .... unique design!

    • @WOT_utwente
      @WOT_utwente  Před 3 lety +8

      Hi, in fact there is an air chamber; the big yellow hose contains a bubble of air and acts as the air chamber. But you're right it looks different than most other designs

    • @zfolwick
      @zfolwick Před 3 lety +3

      @@WOT_utwente seems way more compact than other designs for a ram pump. Love it!

  • @LaCazaLP
    @LaCazaLP Před 11 měsíci

    Everytime you say "The Breurram" you sound a like a German guy trying his hardest to pronounce the words right and i love it.

  • @Jimjolnir
    @Jimjolnir Před 9 měsíci

    I've seen the ram pump and now this, it's super impressive. My friend and I were on his Uncles farm in Cape Town, they have a pump there which I'm still trying to fully wrap my head around. It was not very well explained, but I think I figured it out:P The starting point is about 200 metres away and about 5 metres lower than the collection point, maybe more (the 'pump stations' weren't in a straight line). There are three 'pump stations' along the way, and it's just piping and concrete (each pump station is about 2 metres tall, half of which is dug into the ground, and about a metre round, I think the intake was higher than the outlet, and I can't remember by how much).
    It starts at the side of a fairly fast moving stream. On the side of the stream is a concrete channel, which, I'd say, about 20% of the stream flows through, freely. The channel is about 4 metres long, 1 metre wide, and about 0.7 metres high. To fill up the channel you lower a metal gate. Then another gate is lowered to prevent water in the channel returning to the stream. Once the channel is full, you raise its gate and water is forced into a drain which starts the process of pumping the water up hill via the other pump stations. The destination of the water is a small dam, which is then used to irrigate the farm via gravity.
    My friends Dad gave us a demonstration (his Uncle wasn't there), he's a rather comical introvert character, great guy to be around but jeez can he be cryptic in his mannerisms and explanations. Gotta love him. Anyway. Even once the gate opens water continues to fill the channel, so it only slowly loses pressure. Once the gate was lifted we watched the water for a bit, then walked to each pump station, and finally to the dam. At a rough estimate, I reckon the emptying of the channel took about 20-30 minutes. And there was quite a head of pressure exiting that final station.
    It blew my mind. I was very impressed. I only wish it that it was better explained to me. But I think I've got it... If anyone reads this and understands what I'm saying :) I'd love to know more, and I'd really love to know what this type of pump is called!

  • @amararda
    @amararda Před 3 lety +53

    This is an excellent presentation. Brief, informative,
    very well explained.Congradulations

  • @silkyz68
    @silkyz68 Před 3 lety +64

    So it's just two relief valves tuned to be just right?

    • @tissuepaper9962
      @tissuepaper9962 Před 3 lety +9

      Two relief valves, yes, but you can't forget about the pipe carrying the water. This fluid circuit is almost identical in theory to an electrical circuit known as a "joule thief". An important component in a joule thief is an inductor, because inductors resist changes in current. The role of the inductor is being played by the inertia of the water in the length of pipe between the tank and the valves.
      Another important component is the bubble in the tube on the pressurized side. That bubble performs a function analogous to a capacitor, smoothing out the output pressure of the pump and capturing more of the energy of the moving water.

    • @archdornan4389
      @archdornan4389 Před 3 lety +4

      @@tissuepaper9962 Water hammer is a hell of a thing

  • @volkerengels5298
    @volkerengels5298 Před rokem

    I've seen such pump in work for the first time a month ago. I instantly say: *"NO !"* It's so *-intuitiv-*

  • @timwhite4288
    @timwhite4288 Před 2 lety +1

    As many wrote in their comments, water hammer is the force driving the pump. (Change your manual.) Water is incompressible in the actual range of pressure so when the flow stops abruptly the momentum is converted to pressure increase. Water hammer was the noise in the plumbing with copper or steel pipes if you shut a faucet suddenly. Although sometimes a standpipe with air not water would dampen the effect.

  • @AlkalineGamingHD
    @AlkalineGamingHD Před 3 lety +6

    Its basically a ram pump. The use of the tensioner for the main check valve is a brilliant upgrade however. Far more control than a traditional ram pump. If not used for potable drinking purposes many people add an air damper on the pressure hose side right after the check valve in the form of a PVC/Steel tube. Your use of the pressure delivery hose to perform this function is not only resource saving but also resourceful! Great idea!

    • @isaackarjala7916
      @isaackarjala7916 Před 2 lety

      I feel like I should know the answer already, but should the output not be buffered if to be used for drinking water?

    • @wildcaveman5310
      @wildcaveman5310 Před rokem

      You can make your own pressure tank on the outgoing side of the pump with a large tube

    • @alexbrown1050
      @alexbrown1050 Před rokem

      ​@@isaackarjala7916high pressure is the only thing keeping piped water clean, low pressure standing water is how you get sick

  • @FirstLast-nt5ui
    @FirstLast-nt5ui Před 3 lety +16

    Another name for this is a Ram Pump. set up is a little different but identical in function.. your switch valve is much nicer and adjustable though... enjoy..

  • @HappyLittleBoozer
    @HappyLittleBoozer Před 11 měsíci +1

    It's always good to find out about such excellent things existing. Engineers are truly the magicians of our world.

  • @g-build-it
    @g-build-it Před rokem

    never even heard of this pump before, I'm glad I watched the video.
    Cheers.

  • @yessroman
    @yessroman Před 3 lety +8

    Excellent presentation with 3D modelling, description, explanation and instructions. Thank goodness there are still people who don’t bait us with thumbnails containing yellow arrows, people with their mouths wide open and and infantile script. If I could like and subscribe twice I would.

  • @klazzera
    @klazzera Před 3 lety +39

    damn this is literally the step up regulator in the electricity

    • @DavidG2P
      @DavidG2P Před 3 lety +1

      Exactly!
      I believe the steel pipe is the L (coil), the air hose is the C (capacitor), and the valves are the transistors, right?

    • @m.sierra5258
      @m.sierra5258 Před 3 lety +1

      @@DavidG2P Yes! So I wonder if you can increase the efficiency by increasing the length of the steel pipe by curving it a bunch. (e.g. increase the coil inductiveness)

    • @buteos8632
      @buteos8632 Před 2 lety

      @@m.sierra5258 Yes but that is a complicated achievement.

    • @jercos
      @jercos Před rokem

      @@m.sierra5258 this is one of the ways the water analogy breaks down... ram pumps work off straight inertia, the momentum of the water itself. Inductance has nothing to do with electron momentum, and everything to do with the magnetic field around the wire. Overlapping coils of wire in a solenoid shape overlaps the magnetic field between the turns. Coiling water pipe just makes friction losses higher.

  • @CharlesTyree777
    @CharlesTyree777 Před 11 měsíci

    Built a Ram Pump decades ago worked great. Very ingenious things...

  • @dansmith6909
    @dansmith6909 Před rokem +1

    I find the slotted cap on top of the waste valve of this pump very aesthetically pleasing

  • @Lesardah
    @Lesardah Před rokem +7

    The cutaway was so awesome. I'll never forget this mechanism now. Beautiful editing work. The build quality of the entire line up the tower and your explanations are perfect!

  • @fizzyplazmuh9024
    @fizzyplazmuh9024 Před 3 lety +16

    Excellent video and cutaway animation.

  • @florfernando346
    @florfernando346 Před rokem

    This is totally new to me, thank you for sharing this useful knowledge. Now to sort out the excess outflow from the pump.

  • @crowznest438
    @crowznest438 Před rokem +1

    Once upon a time,, my source of water where I lived was brought up from a creek via one of the old balloon style cast iron ram pumps, to a tank at the house. It was brilliant.

  • @brianstevens3858
    @brianstevens3858 Před rokem +3

    Connect the "lost water to the infeed side of your source, a second tank set beside and connected by simple check valve to hold the main tank pressure, and when enough water is "taken out/infeed" the valve opens and a portion of the lost water is recovered. Can even use a second Breurram to feed it from the catch to the prime tank, you will always lose some but the more you recover the less you have to take from the source.

    • @SnowflakeHaze
      @SnowflakeHaze Před rokem +1

      this is critical and ignorantly left out of the video. If everyone wasted this much water from the rivers we would be in trouble.

    • @sharkheadism
      @sharkheadism Před rokem +1

      @@SnowflakeHaze What if it just flows back into the river

    • @SnowflakeHaze
      @SnowflakeHaze Před rokem

      @@sharkheadism If it gets back to the river that's great but this one had no return system to my knowledge it would just add to local ground water and evaporate.

  • @WernerBeroux
    @WernerBeroux Před 3 lety +3

    Smooth transition to the 3D section view. You may also explain that it works using water hammering, do you need a strong inflexible pipe for the intake (in the how it works presentation).

  • @djcarbine3074
    @djcarbine3074 Před rokem +1

    There is something similar in pneumatics, you can boost the incoming air pressure by a multiple of 1.5 (or more or less depending on how the booster was designed/how much waste pressure is vented). Worked great getting 100-110psi shop air to about 150 for the machines that needed it. Your volume of air that can be supplied suffers a lot due to the waste air being vented, but without using more compressors the boosters work fine depending on the application

  • @idiotsandwich7528
    @idiotsandwich7528 Před 3 lety +2

    this is a genius design. It takes such a simple mechanism that makes good use of it. Fantastic.

  • @killshot7041
    @killshot7041 Před 3 lety +25

    Ok I'm genuinely pissed that i wasn't thought something like this in school.

    • @SuburbaniteUrbanite
      @SuburbaniteUrbanite Před 3 lety +1

      You aren't taught about this because 1. It's only really useful if you live in a rural area 2. if your a farmer and 3. It is incredibly wasteful and with the trend of humanity continually fucking ourselves and scrambling to fix millenia worth of damage, this would not be environmentally friendly enough.

    • @pappafritto
      @pappafritto Před 3 lety

      Haha you’re not alone

    • @falghar4711
      @falghar4711 Před 2 lety

      @UodasAruodasLTU Ideally you would install this by the river(with possibly a chute/ramp that would return the water) or even within the river so that the waste(which would not be waste in this scenario, or very little) is returned to river almost immediately.

    • @jamesgizasson
      @jamesgizasson Před 2 lety

      The purpose of school is to train you for the workforce. The last thing they want is for people to become self sufficient! X3

    • @jonneilsmyth9107
      @jonneilsmyth9107 Před 2 lety

      thought an idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind.
      "Maggie had a sudden thought" why would you be thinking about mechanical water pumps in school ? mabe if you would of been taught as impart knowledge to or instruct (someone) as to how to do something.
      "she taught him to read" this really might of helped you about the pumps as well big time

  • @6alecapristrudel
    @6alecapristrudel Před 3 lety +34

    Huh this is the water analog of a DC/DC boost converter!

    • @0ufo0
      @0ufo0 Před rokem

      It is amazing how similar this is! You let some water/electrons flow, suddenly try to stop the flow which causes a pressure/voltage spike because it doesn't want to stop, use some valve/diode to capture that spike and an air bubble/capacitor to smooth it out at a higher level.

  • @Marienkarpfen
    @Marienkarpfen Před rokem +1

    Ooo 3d view even. Very proud of you people putting effort into videos

  • @rossnavarro2591
    @rossnavarro2591 Před 11 měsíci

    One of the very few positive consequences of water hammer i have ever seen. Cool system!

  • @coolizmc
    @coolizmc Před 3 lety +7

    Awesome it uses the water hammer to move water!

  • @de0509
    @de0509 Před 3 lety +4

    Wow this is cool. Since you already have the setup perhaps it would be even cooler if you can figure out the pump curves? Im sure between the always open and always closed, there will be a certain range where the spring tension will work Would be interesting to see how each settings affect both the max height and the flow rate

  • @der_pinguin44
    @der_pinguin44 Před 3 lety +2

    I smile every time you say Breurram.
    Now say squirrel.

  • @BIGGlep
    @BIGGlep Před rokem +1

    It reminds of a boost converter in electronics. Instead of using an inductor as a store of energy, you use the inertia or the water along the inlet pipe.

  • @LoliLoveJuice
    @LoliLoveJuice Před 3 lety +4

    that cross section got me offguard. impressive

  • @lubricatedgoat
    @lubricatedgoat Před 3 lety +8

    Could you make this system into two (or more) spill valves that alternate in releasing water pressure but do no pumping? The idea being to generate linear motion in the valves as efficiently as possible then use this movement to create an ultra simple set of linear generators. No rotary components would be needed to convert the water's kinetic energy into electricity, and the amount of virtual spring tension could be comprised of the sum of gravity and the current load allowed, thus being tunable to maximize efficiency depending on a changing water pressure input.

    • @WOT_utwente
      @WOT_utwente  Před 3 lety +13

      Hi Mike, maybe you could, but to generate electricity it is probably most efficient to have a rotating generator powered by the flow in your river. Generally adding steps will increase losses. Also something that moves back and forth is also often less efficient since you continuously have to stop and start moving again, this consumes energy. A rotating motion is constant → less losses.

    • @keithklassen5320
      @keithklassen5320 Před 3 lety +4

      @@WOT_utwente Not only is an oscillating system less efficient, it's also more prone to stress and damage because the parts are constantly impacting each other, and the pressure is spiking and falling. Rotating energy systems are definitely better, as you say.

  • @bottomline99
    @bottomline99 Před 11 měsíci

    worth noting is the pipe between the tank and pump. as it is the kinetic energy of the water in this section that drives the pump. meaning, a longer pipe will pack a bigger punch.

  • @kerplunkboydotNET
    @kerplunkboydotNET Před 3 lety +2

    I know this one as a "Ram pump", we use them a lot here in Brazil!

    • @kerplunkboydotNET
      @kerplunkboydotNET Před 3 lety

      @Lorenzo Maria Martini Bomba carneiro. Creo que sea muy parecido el nombre en español

  • @FirstLast-nt5ui
    @FirstLast-nt5ui Před 3 lety +5

    Now to incorporate a hydro generator... and add more pumps to fill the tower faster.. If you seal off the tower then vacuum suction could siphon the water without even needing the pump..

    • @keithlol
      @keithlol Před 3 lety +3

      I’d like to see what you’re referring to, got a link?

    • @Rattlerjake1
      @Rattlerjake1 Před 3 lety

      Because it is an "open system", air would still enter in the water and prevent the vacuum.

    • @MrFlyb4crawl
      @MrFlyb4crawl Před 3 lety

      Once the water is pumped up to a higher elevation, if the water comes back down it will create a vacuum, and thus draw more water up the the top of the water tower that was created. The tank, would have to be almost completely, full before the water is released down a return pipe. If the water coming down is fast enough, it can turn a turbine and that could turn a generator and thus create electricity.

    • @MrFlyb4crawl
      @MrFlyb4crawl Před 3 lety +1

      If this all works, then I could see the electric company using water towers to create hydro electricity, because they have the budget to build things like this at a very large scale. It would be like having another Niagra falls as your water source, except they would be using water towers to do the same thing on a smaller scale. But, if have rivers and lakes near by, it would be a way so build one and have nearly an endless supply of water to do this from.

    • @Texassince1836
      @Texassince1836 Před 3 lety

      In order to use a water tower to make water pressure it must be open at the top.
      And it Is impossible to move liquid water more than 34 feet in the air on vacuum alone.

  • @james10739
    @james10739 Před 3 lety +26

    Sounds like a ram pump but it looks different

    • @ogi22
      @ogi22 Před 3 lety +10

      The same principle. Create high pressure with fast moving water, then block the easy pathway to push small amount of water higher. Kind of like different versions of a Stirling engine.

    • @Tasmantor
      @Tasmantor Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah just much quieter

    • @ogi22
      @ogi22 Před 3 lety +6

      @@Tasmantor Sound is generated when the valve is shut. This one does it more gently, but also doesn't create high pressure.

  • @phillipsusi1791
    @phillipsusi1791 Před rokem +2

    Cool. That's the hydrolic version of a DC boost converter. Only instead of bleeding off excess water to create higher pressure, it bleeds off excess current to create higher voltage.

    • @ludditeneaderthal
      @ludditeneaderthal Před 11 měsíci +1

      I'd think your dc boost converter would be an electronic version of the ram pump, not the other way around, lol. The basic principal has been used to pump water for a VERY long time, while your boost converter is a "johnny come lately", lol. There's a good reason the British called vacuum tubes "valves"

  • @gareng5599
    @gareng5599 Před rokem

    it's good video 👍👍👍, I will adopt this "Hidram pump". it is very simple and easy, thank you. From Indonesia I am support this channel.

  • @DivergentDroid
    @DivergentDroid Před 3 lety +4

    This is neat but it doesn't beat the Bunyip Pump. Instead of fast moving water, it can use slow moving or standing water and can pump much higher than a Breurram or a ram pump.

    • @alext8610
      @alext8610 Před 3 lety

      I've searched around for actual users and their reviews for Bunyip pump. Its been over 2 years, that this pump was put to production.
      Where are they?

    • @SheriffofYouTube
      @SheriffofYouTube Před 3 lety

      @@alext8610 they are in NewZealand making videos for their homestead channels

    • @kyliemccarthy9442
      @kyliemccarthy9442 Před 3 lety

      @@SheriffofCZcams they don’t show any water outlet videos. Or quote flow rate. I wonder how much$$$$

  • @danielbedrossian5986
    @danielbedrossian5986 Před 3 lety +6

    "WOT, Wot, wot!" Said the Covanent elite.
    Nice boost regulator.

  • @cambridge123456789
    @cambridge123456789 Před rokem

    Post apocalypse.
    A crowd: "So how do you make this Breurram pump?"
    Me: "I don't know"

  • @1049662
    @1049662 Před 11 měsíci

    Video: Be sure to use enough teflon tape to prevent leaking. Breurram: *Leaks aggressively as part of its function.* - Iunno I found this funny, fascinating concept!

  • @moumous87
    @moumous87 Před 3 lety +7

    And of course, a Dutch is explaining this 😌

    • @AlexanderBukh
      @AlexanderBukh Před 3 lety

      prob have too much water on their hands))

  • @ktkace
    @ktkace Před 3 lety +3

    So if you do that to a hydrodam ... Unlimited free electricity?!

    • @areadenial2343
      @areadenial2343 Před 3 lety +1

      What do you think hydropower dams are used for?

  • @gingie5246
    @gingie5246 Před 3 lety +2

    I could see this being a good way to have free water if you had a clean spring and a make shift water tower to create pressure and this pump to slowly fill a 1000 gallon barrel as the pressure/ storage tank.

  • @I.Fumblebee.I
    @I.Fumblebee.I Před rokem +2

    The Dutch sure do know their water

  • @AshGreen359
    @AshGreen359 Před 3 lety +3

    I'm not sure how useful this is, your still need power to fill the water tank
    I guess you could fill a water tower from a river

    • @buteos8632
      @buteos8632 Před 2 lety

      The water tank in the system is pointless, he could have as well made it directly from the river which would add the kinetic energy!

  • @IvanSchoeman
    @IvanSchoeman Před rokem +1

    You could use this to fill up a reservoir used to drive a hydroelectric pump. It would be very slow but it would work.

  • @frederickcwinterburn1837

    My great grandfather James Cameron brought water to the village of Norland Ontario this way back in the 1920s. Good old water hammer in action.

  • @joedee1863
    @joedee1863 Před rokem

    The Ancient Egyptians used this method on a grand scale. It is also known as a PULSE PUMP or RAM PUMP. It is used in mines to being water to the surface.

  • @ferazelt
    @ferazelt Před rokem

    Cool to see water hammer put to work, great explanation

  • @Indicafatbud
    @Indicafatbud Před 10 měsíci

    the water loss is actually not lost at all, and will provide water to trees inbetween the pumpsite and the water source.

  • @tomsalzano8120
    @tomsalzano8120 Před rokem

    That's ingeniuous. It's like a fluid dynamics version of a Joule Thief ( an electrical counterpart to this same effect ).

  • @scotthuffman3462
    @scotthuffman3462 Před 11 měsíci

    I want a little desk fountain that pumps water in intervals like that, seems cool

  • @Doug-Didgiridoo
    @Doug-Didgiridoo Před rokem

    This is very important knowledge. Thankyou sincerely.

  • @osmacar5331
    @osmacar5331 Před rokem

    Pressure differential pumping. Neat.

  • @headbanger1428
    @headbanger1428 Před rokem

    Thanks for such detail on your website and the supporting video. I’ll subscribe.

  • @7ruthVVizard
    @7ruthVVizard Před rokem

    I am certain one day in the following decades this will come in handy!

  • @willfullyoblivious4524
    @willfullyoblivious4524 Před 3 lety +2

    Awesome piece of information, I especially appreciate you showing how the pump works and how to build it. New sub fosho

  • @s_t_r_a_y_e_d
    @s_t_r_a_y_e_d Před rokem

    basically utilizing the water hammer effect to your benefit, very elegant

  • @DISOPtv
    @DISOPtv Před rokem

    So basically using water hammering as a pump, brilliant!

  • @Sjeedughait
    @Sjeedughait Před 3 lety

    you can even use the river flow water to run a wheel that is connected to a pump from another hose. to pump water up high. there are windmill pumps but i think a watermill pumps also can work.

  • @icompute498
    @icompute498 Před 3 lety

    Idk why youtube recommended this to me but I am enjoying it

  • @kalibbailey6219
    @kalibbailey6219 Před rokem

    This is probably the quietest ram pump ive ever seen

  • @gregkral4467
    @gregkral4467 Před rokem

    ram pumps are wonderful.

  • @pernitoconejos868
    @pernitoconejos868 Před 2 lety

    Thanks this videos..Making water pump.......i'm in phillipine.

  • @joedee1863
    @joedee1863 Před rokem

    The presentation is well explained, however could have been improved by using transparent tube so the learner could see the air bubble forming and moving.
    Thanks to the creators of this ptesentation.

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 Před rokem +2

    OOOOOHHH, I get it now. It's magic. Some kind of dark ancient magic.

    • @loboxx337
      @loboxx337 Před rokem +1

      no, it's science some kind of dark ancient science.

  • @UnreadyPlayer
    @UnreadyPlayer Před rokem

    This is something that we all need to know

  • @RafaelBenedicto
    @RafaelBenedicto Před 7 měsíci

    Although I like the idea of valves with adjustible tension, the springs act as additional points of failure for the pump. Ideally a ram pump should only have two moving parts (i.e. the valves). This is why a pump with weighted valves would be more reliable.