Pumps – How industrial components work

Pumps – How Industrial Components Work

A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action, typically converted from electrical energy to hydraulic energy. Pumps can be classified into three main groups according to the method they use to move fluid: direct lift, displacement, and gravity pumps.

Pumps work by some mechanism (typically reciprocating or rotary), and consume energy to perform mechanical work moving the fluid. Pumps work through various energy sources, including manual operation, electricity, motors or wind power, and come in many sizes, from microscopic for use in medical applications, to large industrial pumps.

Mechanical pumps serve in a wide range of applications, such as pumping water from wells, filtering aquariums, filtering and aerating ponds, in the automotive industry for water cooling and fuel injection, in the energy industry for pumping oil and natural gas, or for operating cooling towers and other components of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. In the medical industry, pumps are used for biochemical processes in drug development and manufacturing, and as artificial replacements for body parts, in particular the artificial heart and penile prosthesis.

When a casing contains only one rotating impeller, it is called a single-stage pump. When a casing contains two or more rotating impellers, it is called a double or multi-stage pump.

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