Pump
Pumps are mechanical devices that use suction or pressure to move liquids (or slurries) or to compress gases.
Articles about pumps on Designing Buildings include:
- Absorption heat pump
- Air source heat pump
- Ambient loop heat pump system
- BSRIA global heat pump market 2017
- BSRIA global heat pump market 2019
- Closed loop heat pump system
- Concrete pump
- Direct coupled pump
- Dynamic thermal modelling of closed loop geothermal heat pump systems
- Exhaust air heat pump
- Gas absorption heat pump
- Ground source heat pump
- Heat pump
- Hybrid heat pump electric panel heating
- Hydram pump
- Open loop heat pump system
- Ram pump
- Residential heat pump installations: the role of vocational education and training
- Reverse cycle heat pump system
- Room-based heat pump
- Sewage heat pump
- Smart pump
- Solar assisted heat pump
- Sump pump
- Water pump
- Water Pump Market - Global Industry Analysis and Forecast to 2020
- Water source heat pump
- World air conditioning, heat pump and refrigeration compressors market March 2022
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