Pumps and Turbines

™ Pumps and turbines: Fluid machines.

™ Pumps: Add energy to the fluid – they do work on the
fluid.
™ Turbines: Extract energy from the fluid – the fluid does
work on them.

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Fluid Machines

™ Positive displacement machines (denoted as the static type)

™ Turbomachines (denoted as the dynamic type).

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Positive Displacement Machines

™ Force fluid into or out of a

chamber by changing the
volume of the chamber.
™ The pressure developed and
the work done are a result of
essentially static forces
rather than dynamic effects.

Typical positive displacement pumps: (a) tire

pump, (b) human heart, (c) gear pump. 5