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120 relations: Air conditioning, Airlift pump, Alternating current, Aquarium filter, Artificial heart, Atmospheric pressure, Automotive industry, Axial-flow pump, Bernoulli's principle, Bicycle pump, Biomimetics, Bunding, Capillary action, Centrifugal fan, Centrifugal pump, Chain pump, Compressor, Concrete pump, Cooling tower, Diaphragm pump, Drilling fluid, Energy industry, Espresso machine, Evolutionary biology, Federal Signal Corporation, First law of thermodynamics, Flexible impeller, Flow control valve, Fluid dynamics, Fracking, Fuel injection, Gas, Gastrointestinal tract, Gear pump, Gravitational energy, Hand pump, Healthcare industry, Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, Hengsteysee, Heron's fountain, Horsepower, Hydraulic accumulator, Hydraulic pump, Hydraulic ram, Hydrochloric acid, Impedance pump, Impeller, Inflatable, Ingersoll Rand, Internal combustion engine, ... Expand index (70 more) »
- Ancient inventions
Air conditioning
Air conditioning, often abbreviated as A/C (US) or air con (UK), is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior temperature (sometimes referred to as 'comfort cooling') and in some cases also strictly controlling the humidity of internal air.
Airlift pump
An airlift pump is a pump that has low suction and moderate discharge of liquid and entrained solids.
Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.
See Pump and Alternating current
Aquarium filter
Aquarium filters are critical components of both freshwater and marine aquaria.
Artificial heart
An artificial heart is an artificial organ device that replaces the heart.
Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.
See Pump and Atmospheric pressure
Automotive industry
The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, repairing, and modification of motor vehicles.
See Pump and Automotive industry
Axial-flow pump
An axial-flow pump, or AFP, is a common type of pump that essentially consists of a propeller (an axial impeller) in a pipe.
Bernoulli's principle
Bernoulli's principle is a key concept in fluid dynamics that relates pressure, speed and height.
See Pump and Bernoulli's principle
Bicycle pump
A bicycle pump is a type of positive-displacement air pump specifically designed for inflating bicycle tires.
Biomimetics
Biomimetics or biomimicry is the emulation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.
Bunding
Bunding, also called a bund wall, is a constructed retaining wall around storage "where potentially polluting substances are handled, processed or stored, for the purposes of containing any unintended escape of material from that area until such time as a remedial action can be taken." Guidance Note on Storage and Transfer of Materials for Scheduled Activities page 7.
See Pump and Bunding
Capillary action
Capillary action (sometimes called capillarity, capillary motion, capillary rise, capillary effect, or wicking) is the process of a liquid flowing in a narrow space in opposition to or at least without the assistance of any external forces like gravity.
Centrifugal fan
A centrifugal fan is a mechanical device for moving air or other gases in a direction at an angle to the incoming fluid.
Centrifugal pump
Centrifugal pumps are used to transport fluids by the conversion of rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic energy of the fluid flow.
Chain pump
The chain pump is type of a water pump in which several circular discs are positioned on an endless chain.
Compressor
A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume.
Concrete pump
A concrete pump is a machine used for transferring liquid concrete by pumping.
Cooling tower
A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream, to a lower temperature.
Diaphragm pump
A diaphragm pump (also known as a Membrane pump) is a positive displacement pump that uses a combination of the reciprocating action of a rubber, thermoplastic or teflon diaphragm and suitable valves on either side of the diaphragm (check valve, butterfly valves, flap valves, or any other form of shut-off valves) to pump a fluid.
Drilling fluid
In geotechnical engineering, drilling fluid, also known as drilling mud, is used to aid the drilling of boreholes into the earth.
Energy industry
The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution.
Espresso machine
An espresso machine brews coffee by forcing pressurized water near boiling point through a "puck" of ground coffee and a filter in order to produce a thick, concentrated coffee called espresso.
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth.
See Pump and Evolutionary biology
Federal Signal Corporation
Federal Signal Corporation is an American manufacturer headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois.
See Pump and Federal Signal Corporation
First law of thermodynamics
The first law of thermodynamics is a formulation of the law of conservation of energy in the context of thermodynamic processes.
See Pump and First law of thermodynamics
Flexible impeller
A flexible impeller pump is a positive-displacement pump that, by deforming impeller vanes, draws the liquid into the pump housing and moves it to the discharge port with a constant flow rate.
See Pump and Flexible impeller
Flow control valve
A flow control valve regulates the flow or pressure of a fluid.
See Pump and Flow control valve
Fluid dynamics
In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases.
Fracking
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid.
Fuel injection
Fuel injection is the introduction of fuel in an internal combustion engine, most commonly automotive engines, by the means of an injector.
Gas
Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter.
See Pump and Gas
Gastrointestinal tract
The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and other animals, including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
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Gear pump
A gear pump uses the meshing of gears to pump fluid by displacement.
Gravitational energy
Gravitational energy or gravitational potential energy is the potential energy a massive object has due to its position in a gravitational field.
See Pump and Gravitational energy
Hand pump
Hand pumps are manually operated pumps; they use human power and mechanical advantage to move fluids or air from one place to another.
Healthcare industry
The healthcare industry (also called the medical industry or health economy) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care.
See Pump and Healthcare industry
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space.
See Pump and Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Hengsteysee
The Hengsteysee (Lake Hengstey) is a reservoir on the Ruhr river between the cities of Hagen, Dortmund and Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Heron's fountain
Heron's fountain is a hydraulic machine invented by the 1st century AD inventor, mathematician, and physicist Hero of Alexandria.
Horsepower
Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors.
Hydraulic accumulator
A hydraulic accumulator is a pressure storage reservoir in which an incompressible hydraulic fluid is held under pressure that is applied by an external source of mechanical energy.
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Hydraulic pump
A hydraulic pump is a mechanical source of power that converts mechanical power into hydraulic energy (hydrostatic energy i.e. flow, pressure).
Hydraulic ram
A hydraulic ram pump, ram pump, or hydram is a cyclic water pump powered by hydropower.
Hydrochloric acid
Hydrochloric acid, also known as muriatic acid or spirits of salt, is an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl).
See Pump and Hydrochloric acid
Impedance pump
An impedance pump is a valveless pump consisting of an elastic tube connected on both ends to an inelastic tube.
Impeller
An impeller, or impellor, is a driven rotor used to increase the pressure and flow of a fluid.
Inflatable
An inflatable is an object that can be inflated with a gas, usually with air, but hydrogen, helium, and nitrogen are also used.
Ingersoll Rand
Ingersoll Rand Inc. is an American multinational company that provides flow creation and industrial products.
Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.
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John Crane Group
John Crane is an American company, now a subsidiary of Smiths Group and provider of engineered products and services including mechanical seals, couplings, seal support systems, filtration systems and digital diagnostics technologies.
John Snow
John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene.
Kinetic energy
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the form of energy that it possesses due to its motion.
Liquid
A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a nearly constant volume independent of pressure.
See Pump and Liquid
Liquid-ring pump
A liquid-ring pump is a rotating positive-displacement gas pump, with liquid under centrifugal force acting as a seal.
List of gasoline additives
Petrol additives may increase petrol's octane rating, thus allowing the use of higher compression ratios for greater efficiency and power, or act as corrosion inhibitors or lubricants.
See Pump and List of gasoline additives
Lobe pump
A lobe pump, or rotary lobe pump, is a type of positive displacement pump.
Mean time between failures
Mean time between failures (MTBF) is the predicted elapsed time between inherent failures of a mechanical or electronic system during normal system operation.
See Pump and Mean time between failures
Mechanical energy
In physical sciences, mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy.
See Pump and Mechanical energy
Microfluidics
Microfluidics refers to a system that manipulates a small amount of fluids (10−9 to 10−18 liters) using small channels with sizes ten to hundreds micrometres.
Mud pump
A mud pump (sometimes referred to as a mud drilling pump or drilling mud pump), is a reciprocating piston/plunger pump designed to circulate drilling fluid under high pressure (up to) down the drill string and back up the annulus.
Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
Navier–Stokes equations
The Navier–Stokes equations are partial differential equations which describe the motion of viscous fluid substances.
See Pump and Navier–Stokes equations
Oil platform
An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.
Oil refinery
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.
Oil terminal
An oil terminal (also called a tank farm, tankfarm, oil installation or oil depot) is an industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical products, and from which these products are transported to end users or other storage facilities.
Opportunity cost
In microeconomic theory, the opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone where, given limited resources, a choice needs to be made between several mutually exclusive alternatives.
Orifice plate
An orifice plate is a device used for measuring flow rate, for reducing pressure or for restricting flow (in the latter two cases it is often called a).
Penile implant
A penile implant is an implanted device intended for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, Peyronie's disease, ischemic priapism, deformity and any traumatic injury of the penis, and for phalloplasty or metoidioplasty, including in gender-affirming surgery.
Peristalsis
Peristalsis is a type of intestinal motility, characterized by radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles that propagate in a wave down a tube, in an anterograde direction.
Peristaltic pump
A peristaltic pump, also commonly known as a roller pump, is a type of positive displacement pump used for pumping a variety of fluids.
Piston pump
A piston pump is a type of positive displacement pump where the high-pressure seal reciprocates with the piston.
Pistonless pump
A pistonless pump is a type of pump designed to move fluids without any moving parts other than three chamber valves.
Plumbing
Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications.
Plunger pump
A plunger pump is a type of positive displacement pump where the high-pressure seal is stationary and a smooth cylindrical plunger slides through the seal.
Pond
A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially.
See Pump and Pond
Popular Science
Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.
Potential energy
In physics, potential energy is the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors.
Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
Progressing cavity pump
A progressing cavity pump is a type of positive displacement pump and is also known as a progressive cavity pump, progg cavity pump, eccentric screw pump or cavity pump.
See Pump and Progressing cavity pump
Pulser pump
A pulser pump is a gas lift device that uses gravity to pump water to a higher elevation.
Pulsometer pump
The Pulsometer steam pump is a pistonless pump which was patented in 1872 by American Charles Henry Hall.
Pump
A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action, typically converted from electrical energy into hydraulic energy.
See Pump and Pump
Pumping (oil well)
In the context of oil wells, pumping is a routine operation involving injecting fluids into the well.
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Radial piston pump
A radial piston pump is a form of hydraulic pump.
See Pump and Radial piston pump
Refrigeration
Refrigeration is any of various types of cooling of a space, substance, or system to lower and/or maintain its temperature below the ambient one (while the removed heat is ejected to a place of higher temperature).
Roots blower
The Roots blower is a positive displacement lobe pump which operates by pumping a fluid with a pair of meshing lobes resembling a set of stretched gears.
Rope pump
A rope pump is a kind of pump where a loose hanging rope is lowered into a well and drawn up through a long pipe with the bottom immersed in water.
Rotary vane pump
A rotary vane pump is a type of positive-displacement pump that consists of vanes mounted to a rotor that rotates inside a cavity.
Rotodynamic pump
A rotodynamic pump is a kinetic machine in which energy is continuously imparted to the pumped fluid by means of a rotating impeller, propeller, or rotor, in contrast to a positive-displacement pump in which a fluid is moved by trapping a fixed amount of fluid and forcing the trapped volume into the pump's discharge.
Safety
Safety is the state of being "safe", the condition of being protected from harm or other danger.
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Safety valve
A safety valve is a valve that acts as a fail-safe.
Screw pump
A screw pump is a positive-displacement pump that use one or several screws to move fluid solids or liquids along the screw(s) axis.
Scroll compressor
A scroll compressor (also called spiral compressor, scroll pump and scroll vacuum pump) is a device for compressing air or refrigerant.
See Pump and Scroll compressor
Sewage
Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people.
See Pump and Sewage
Silicone rubber
Silicone rubber is an elastomer (rubber-like material) composed of silicone—itself a polymer—containing silicon together with carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
Siphon
A siphon (also spelled syphon) is any of a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes.
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Slug flow
In fluid mechanics, slug flow in liquid–gas two-phase flow is a type of flow pattern.
Slurry
A slurry is a mixture of denser solids suspended in liquid, usually water.
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Smallholding
A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model.
Solenoid (engineering)
In engineering, a solenoid is a device that converts electrical energy to mechanical energy, using an electromagnet formed from a coil of wire.
See Pump and Solenoid (engineering)
Specific speed
Specific speed Ns, is used to characterize turbomachinery speed.
Static pressure
In fluid mechanics the term static pressure refers to a term in Bernoulli's equation written words as static pressure + dynamic pressure.
Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
Suction
Suction is the day-to-day term for forces experienced by objects that are exposed to the movement of gases or liquids moving along a pressure gradient.
See Pump and Suction
Thermodynamic pump testing
Thermodynamic pump testing is a form of pump testing where only the temperature rise, power consumed, and differential pressure need to be measured to find the efficiency of a pump.
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Thomas Savery
Thomas Savery (c. 1650 – 15 May 1715) was an English inventor and engineer.
Thunderbolt (siren)
The Thunderbolt is a discontinued mechanical outdoor warning siren made by Federal Signal Corporation.
See Pump and Thunderbolt (siren)
Turbine
A turbine (from the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, or Latin turbo, meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.
See Pump and Turbine
Vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum, is a device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.
Vapor lock
Vapor lock is a problem caused by liquid fuel changing state to vapor while still in the fuel delivery system of gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines.
Volumetric flow rate
In physics and engineering, in particular fluid dynamics, the volumetric flow rate (also known as volume flow rate, or volume velocity) is the volume of fluid which passes per unit time; usually it is represented by the symbol (sometimes \dot V).
See Pump and Volumetric flow rate
Water aeration
Water aeration is the process of increasing or maintaining the oxygen saturation of water in both natural and artificial environments.
Water cooling
Cooling tower and water discharge of a nuclear power plant Water cooling is a method of heat removal from components and industrial equipment.
Water hammer
Hydraulic shock (colloquial: water hammer; fluid hammer) is a pressure surge or wave caused when a fluid in motion is forced to stop or change direction suddenly; a momentum change.
Water well pump
A water well pump is a pump that is used in extracting water from a water well.
Watermill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.
Well
A well is an excavation or structure created in the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water.
See Pump and Well
Windmill
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.
1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London, England, and occurred during the 1846–1860 cholera pandemic happening worldwide.
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See also
Ancient inventions
- Aeolipile
- Ancient Greek astronomy
- Aqueduct (bridge)
- Aqueduct (water supply)
- Archimedes' heat ray
- Archimedes' screw
- Armillary sphere
- Banknote
- Clock tower
- Clothes iron
- Comedy (drama)
- Compass
- Cotton gin
- Crane (machine)
- Distillation
- Escapement
- Food steamer
- Heron's fountain
- Hierapolis sawmill
- Hippocratic bench
- Horse mill
- Hydraulics
- Hydraulis of Dion
- Hypocaust
- Lever
- Liquor
- Pump
- Pythagorean cup
- Roman concrete
- Rudder
- Steam cannon
- Sundial
- Teeth-cleaning twig
- Toilet
- Toothbrush
- Tragedy
- Underfloor heating
- Vending machine
- Waru Waru
- Water organ
- Water wheel
- Watermill
- Weather vane
References
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