Pumps are a common item in many rental inventories. In a lot of cases, renting them to customers is a simple matter of determining the right type of pump and the correct size. When your customer has a ...

Heat is fundamental to power generation and many industrial processes, and is most useful at high temperatures because it can be converted more efficiently to other types of energy. However, efficient ...

A ceramic pump can handle the heat; careful engineering prevents it from cracking. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford, and Purdue University have built a ceramic mechanical ...

GEARS ABRADE, pistons crack, pumps clog. If engineers had their way, machines would have no moving parts at all. Alas, a sedentary lump of metal would be a paperweight, rather than a useful machine.