A US-Mexican research team has investigated how linking heat pumps with solar thermal collectors may help reduce the surface needed to deploy the collectors themselves. The scientists found the ...

There are numerous questions to answer when setting out to develop baseline requirements for a new engine. There might be a wide range of interests in what personnel believe is important from an ...

The Kate Gleason College of Engineering’s multidisciplinary senior design program provides a unique opportunity for students to gain hands-on expertise and participate in top-level research while ...

Traditional air-source heat pumps can provide reliable heating when outdoor temperatures are moderately cold. However, once the weather reaches subzero temperatures, heat pumps suffer a drastic loss ...

Fluid-handling or transfer devices are not basically concerned with the modulation or transfer of power, but only with the movement of fluid. Two major types of fluid-transfer pumps are ...

In 1971, when I was starting my first job in the gear-pump business, among the helpful advice offered by the old timers was that gear pumps would one day be obsolete, and I would be smart to build a ...

Boiler feed pumps (BFPs) play a major role in the capacity and heat rate of a power-generating unit. As such, they merit routine performance testing to assess their condition and trend deficiencies to ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. An inverting charge pump takes a positive supply voltage and generates a negative supply from it. Discrete-design ...

In December a survey in the UK asked 2,500 homeowners whether they would consider getting a heat pump at home in the future. Only 2% said they had one, and 18% said they’d likely make the switch. But ...