Water hammer pumps can effectively use the water hammer phenomenon in long-distance pipeline networks that include
pumps and allow fluid transport without drive sources, such as electric motors. The results of experiments that examined
the effect of the geometric form of water hammer pumps by considering their major dimensions have been reported. In
addition, a paper has also been published analyzing the water hammer phenomenon numerically by using the characteristic
curve method for comparison with experimental results. However, these conventional studies have not fully evaluated the
pump performance in terms of pump head and flow rate, common measures indicating the performance of pumps.
Therefore, as a first stage for the understanding of water hammer pump performance in comparison to the characteristics of
typical turbo pumps, the previous paper experimentally examined how the hydrodynamic characteristics were affected by
the inner diameter ratio of the drive and lifting pipes, the form of the air chamber, and the angle of the drive pipe. To understand
the behavior of the components attached to the valve chamber and the air chamber that affects the performance of
water hammer pumps, the previous study also determined the relationship between the water hammer pump performance
and temporal changes in valve chamber and air chamber pressures according to the air chamber capacity. For the geometry
of components attached to the drain valve, another major component of water hammer pumps, this study experimentally
examines how the water hammer pump performance is affected by the length of the spring and the angle of the drain pipe.
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