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Everything about Pump
Device that imparts energy to fluids by mechanical action
A pump is a device that moves fluids, or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action, typically converted from electrical energy into hydraulic or pneumatic energy. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PumpA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Role of bacterial efflux pumps in antibiotic resistance, virulence, and strategies to discover novel efflux pump inhibitorsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modernThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Crystal structure of the calcium pump of sarcoplasmic reticulum at 2.6 Å resolutionCited 1,607 times
- Go sideways: Rotodynamic pumpA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Centrifugal pumpA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
Noun An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping.
Noun A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel; a gas pump.
Noun A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Crystal structure of the calcium pump of sarcoplasmic reticulum at 2.6 Å resolution
Proton pump inhibitors affect the gut microbiome
Microaxial Flow Pump or Standard Care in Infarct-Related Cardiogenic Shock
Long-term Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy and Risk of Hip Fracture
On-Pump versus Off-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Surgery
Zooplankton fecal pellets, marine snow, phytodetritus and the ocean’s biological pump
The Zimbabwe Bush Pump
Advances in heat pump systems: A review
🆕 Influential since 2022
Role of bacterial efflux pumps in antibiotic resistance, virulence, and strategies to discover novel efflux pump inhibitors
Quantifying the Carbon Export and Sequestration Pathways of the Ocean's Biological Carbon Pump
AGA Clinical Practice Update on De-Prescribing of Proton Pump Inhibitors: Expert Review
The microbial carbon pump and climate change
CeO2 as an “electron pump” to boost the performance of Co4N in electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution, oxygen evolution and biomass oxidation valorization
📚 Books worth reading
A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modernThomas Ewbank · 1842- 📕An examen of Mr. T. Hobbs, his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aërisRobert Boyle · 1661
- 📕A continvation of Nevv experiments physico-mechanicalRobert Boyle · 1669
The centrifugal pump, turbines, and water motorsCharles Herbert Innes · 1898- 📕Pump WisdomHeinz P. Bloch · 2011
Centrifugal PumpsJohann Friedrich Gülich · 2007
High vacuum techniqueJohn Yarwood · 1945
Steam, air, and gas powerWilliam H. Severns · 1929
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🔗 Related topics
- 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…
- Centrifugal pump Centrifugal pumps are used to transport fluids by the conversion of rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic energy of the fluid flow. The rotational…
- Mud pump A mud pump' (sometimes called a drilling mud pump) is a reciprocating piston or plunger pump used to circulate drilling fluid under high pressure down…
- 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…
- Compressor A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. An air compressor is a specific type of gas compressor…
- Fluid power Fluid power is the use of fluids under pressure to generate, control, and transmit power. Fluid power is conventionally subdivided into hydraulics (using…
- Impeller An impeller, or impellor, is a driven rotor used to increase the pressure and flow of a fluid. It is the opposite of a turbine, which extracts energy from…
- 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…