Saturday, August 25, 2012

Innovation Zone - Hand operated water lifting pump



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N Sakthimainthan (Hand operated water lifting pump)
Tamil Nadu
Sakthimainthan built his hand operated water pump in response to a dearth of available pumps that could be afforded by small farmers.
He built five prototypes over a period of fifteen years before finally perfecting his design.
The resulting water-lifting device is operated by the continuously rotating a handle. It is simple in design and has a high discharge at low cost compared to the motorized pumps and conventional hand pumps.
The pump has discharge of 20,000 lph at 0.75 m head. The unit has also been tested by TNAU, Coimbatore and improved by CMERI Durgapur. It is useful device for drainage as well.

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1 comment:

  1. Nice innovation, Pl let us know about head wise discharge and its limitation up to what heat it can work.

    Pl send the information including cost to the following mail ID. sujala_prasad@rediffmail.com

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Thanks

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