Heat pumps have become a kind of Rorschach test for the future of home comfort: to some people they are a climate solution, ...

The technology involved in coal mining around the world has advanced a great deal over the years, especially in terms of improving the health and safety of the miners. At the same time mining ...

Because peristaltic pumps can deliver a wide range of fluids, these pumps can be used in several industries. One example, according to Dave Beckstoffer, business development manager at Portescap, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Converting mechanical energy to fluid form provides the "muscle" in a fluid-power system. The power source is the key element in a fluid-power system. In a pneumatic system the power source is an air ...

Swinburne University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Designers aim to change peoples’ lives, ideally for the better. The American co-founders of design and ...