Search results for "Pump" - New World Encyclopedia
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- * Chain pump: It is a type of water pump where an endless chain has circular discs positioned on it. * Chainsaw: It is a portable mechanical, ...6 KB (898 words) - 01:13, 4 December 2023
- relatively incompressible, receive from a pump an energy of motion that propels ... A scroll compressor, also known as scroll pump and scroll vacuum pump ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023
- between them. A fire engine is designed to pump water using an engine. By ... A fire engine is equipped with an engine to pump water, which can ...18 KB (2,795 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
- The majority of heating/cooling/heat pump thermostats operate on low ... before starting main blower fan or circulator pump. * Oil: ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- ===Solubility pump=== The solubility pump is a physico-chemical process that transports ...17 KB (2,593 words) - 23:46, 20 April 2023
- Europe, windmills have served to grind grain and pump water. ... carried downward through a rod to the pump cylinder below. ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- from solving an important practical problem. Pump-makers of the Grand Duke of Tuscany attempted to raise water to a height of 12 meters or more, but ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- * Pump * World Health Organization == Notes == ==References== * Cory, Steve. 2005. Plumbing 1-2-3: Expert Advice from The Home Depot. Des Moines ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 01:54, 10 April 2023
- may be drawn through the filter by the use of a pump. ==Filter media== ... *Pressure filter (closed system that operates under pressure from a pump) ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 19:47, 26 March 2024
- Pumps || Archimedes' screw, Eductor-jet pump, Hydraulic ram, Pump, Trompe, Vacuum pump |- | rowspan="2" colspan="1" ...16 KB (2,145 words) - 04:49, 5 November 2022
- system is not closed and has no central pump (like the heart). It is a ... The skeletal muscle pump, discussed above, is crucial for lymph movement ...10 KB (1,483 words) - 03:14, 5 November 2022
- prevents water vapor from reaching the vacuum pump, which could degrade the pump's performance. Condenser temperatures are typically below −50 °C ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 10:50, 11 April 2024
- heart of fish is therefore only a single pump (consisting of two chambers). ... that the heart is not so much a pump, as a hydraulic ram—an organ ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 15:12, 25 January 2023
- al. 1989). The lysosomal membrane also contains a H+ pump to maintain an acidic pH (Alberts et al. 1989). Thus, the membrane surrounding a lysosome allows ...11 KB (1,480 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- the double-acting reciprocating piston pump, which translated rotary motion ... a motor-driven (often submersible electric) pump. "Static head" is ...20 KB (2,954 words) - 06:37, 1 April 2024
- ===Accelerator pump=== remedied by the use of a small mechanical pump, usually either a plunger ...26 KB (4,190 words) - 19:11, 26 November 2023
- addition, these modified structures include a pump for sucking, a precibarium for tasting, and muscles to operate the pump. And the smooth maxillary stylets ...11 KB (1,647 words) - 15:19, 25 January 2023
- A low-pressure system uses a small grinder pump located at each point of connection ... and transported via a network of pipes and pump stations to a municipal treatment ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- Geissler invented the mercury displacement pump and achieved a record vacuum ... displacement pumps, like the manual water pump for example. Inside the pump ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- the jet can be run on a single pump reaching a lower height of 110 meters. During special occasions it is often illuminated, many times with ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 23:15, 21 October 2022
- have been made to dredge this alluvium and pump it in slurry pipelines to shore where it can be used to fertilize the desert. Abulnaga, Baha, ...5 KB (763 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- to respiratory systems and often used to pump water through the gills while ... quot; constantly, it is able to pump water over its gills. The ...14 KB (2,223 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- The melodeon is the forerunner of the more familiar pump organ reminiscent ... cabinet organs, parlour organs, and, popularly, pump organs. ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- Adsorption refrigeration and heat pump cycles rely on the adsorption ... across the phase boundary. If more than one pump is present in the system a ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- The second type of repeater is the pump action (also known as a slide ... In 1893, he produced the Model 1893 Pump Action Shotgun, introducing ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 14:26, 27 January 2023
- operate other machinery, generate electricity, or pump water or compressed gas. In the context of propulsion systems, an air-breathing engine is one ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- When Boyle read of Otto von Guericke's air pump in 1657, he began ... he described his experiments with the air pump. He concluded, among other ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- often be extracted with a geothermal heat pump more cost-effectively and ... Geothermal power plants use the heat from deep inside the Earth to ...43 KB (6,456 words) - 20:26, 13 December 2023
- shot repeating rifles using lever-action, pump-action, or bolt actions became ... ===Pump action rifles=== In a pump action rifle (also known as slide ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- (In Vibrio species, the motor is a sodium ion pump, rather than a proton pump). The rotor transports protons across the membrane and is turned in ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 17:34, 28 March 2024
- air system (similar to a small home aquarium pump) to be employed to circulate the air inside the waveguide over a jar of silica gel. ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- marine, water-dwelling filter feeders that pump water through their bodies ... Sponges pump remarkable amounts of water. Leuconia, for example, is ...15 KB (2,195 words) - 18:05, 14 October 2022
- as a screw conveyor for the solid R1 and a pump and pipes for liquid R2. ... to heat. They will probably decide to pump the reacted mixture to another ...15 KB (2,143 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- drive system. The engine turns the hydraulic pump capable of high flow rates at up to 4000 psi. This pressure is then directed to the hydraulic motor ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 00:04, 8 January 2024
- and designed the world's first vacuum pump and created the world's ... Using this pump, Boyle and Hooke noticed the pressure-temperature ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- motion machine, he would still have a heat pump system that he could patent and sell. With the introduction of the automobile after the turn of ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 00:24, 24 November 2022
- by an external energy source. Examples of pump sources include electricity ... is said to be saturated. The balance of pump power against gain saturation ...41 KB (6,333 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- in a fluid medium. Along with the heart (a pump) and blood vessels (a series of conduits), blood forms an essential part of the circulatory system ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- but operating in reverse is a compressor or pump. The axial compressor in many ... use turbopumps (machines consisting of a pump driven by a turbine engine ...17 KB (2,749 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- impairs the ability of the heart to fill with or pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body. An example is Cor pulmonale, a failure of the ...11 KB (1,487 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
- Glasgow in Scotland in 1756. Cullen used a pump to create a partial vacuum ... refrigerant in a suitable liquid, a liquid pump which raises the pressure ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- [[Image:Alcohol fuel pump in Brazil.jpg|thumb|300px|A filling station in Brazil offers both gasoline (left) and alcohol (right).]] ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 00:50, 18 October 2022
- A Peltier cooler/heater or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the device to the ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- A contractile vacuole is used to pump excess water out of the cell to reduce osmotic pressure and keep the cell from bursting, which is referred ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 23:00, 13 November 2022
- by which any excess fuel from the injector pump and injectors is returned ... Older engines make use of a mechanical fuel pump and valve assembly ...60 KB (9,401 words) - 14:31, 29 January 2024
- carried out under reduced pressure (using a vacuum pump) to allow drying to proceed at a reasonable rate. This process avoids collapse of the solid structure ...10 KB (1,629 words) - 22:34, 19 August 2020
- 'common rail' and 'pump duse' type systems from ... required to deliver ethanol to the customer at the pump. ...36 KB (5,134 words) - 17:54, 31 October 2023
- gases, such as by using a vacuum pump or by going to high altitudes. On top of Mount Everest, for example, the pressure is about 260 mbar (26 ...13 KB (2,088 words) - 05:24, 17 November 2023
- tap into an existing (city) water line or a pump that pulls water out of a ... for the first time to systems that could pump groundwater out of major aquifers ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 13:24, 6 March 2024
- from many other forces, such as a fan or pump. A convection oven thus works by forced convection, as a fan that rapidly circulates hot air forces ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
