- A
pump is a
device that
moves fluids (liquids or gases), or
sometimes slurries, by
mechanical action,
typically converted from
electrical energy into hydraulic...
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cleaning action,
steam ejectors can
handle gas
flows containing liquids, dust, or even
solid particles that
would damage or clog many
other vacuum pumps. Ejectors...
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first steam-powered
water pump for
draining mines.
Thomas Savery is
considered the
inventor of the
first commercially used
steam powered device, a
steam pump...
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rocking beam that
worked a
mechanical lift
pump from its
opposite end. At the
bottom of each stroke,
steam was
allowed to
enter the
cylinder below the...
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Savery patented a
steam-powered
pump he
called the "Miner's Friend",
essentially identical to Somerset's
design and
almost certainly a
direct copy.[citation...
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Diffusion pumps use a high
speed jet of
vapor to
direct gas
molecules in the
pump throat down into the
bottom of the
pump and out the exhaust. They were...
- cooling), refrigeration,
condensing boiler furnace, or
steam system.
Condensate pumps may be used to
pump the
condensate produced from
latent water vapor in...
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district heating plant return pipe is now
cooled by the heat
pump) or by
cooling the
closed steam loop and
artificially lowering the
condensing pressure and...
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extremely simple pump was made of cast iron, and had no pistons, rods, cylinders, cranks, or flywheels. It
operated by the
direct action of
steam on water. The...
- England, the
museum is
centred on a
collection of
stationary water pumping steam engines dating from 1820 to 1910. It is the home of the world's largest...
