On 16 January, Iraqi artillery destroyed an oil storage tank in Al-Khafji, Saudi Arabia, and on 19 January the pumps at the Ahmadi loading complex were opened, pouring crude oil into the Persian Gulf.

The Fourchon Booster Station has four 6, 000-hp ( 4. 5 MW ) pumps which increase the pressure and crude oil flow en route to the Clovelly Dome Storage Terminal.

The terminal consists of eight caverns with a total capacity of, a pump station with four 6, 000-hp pumps, meters to measure the crude oil receipts and deliveries, and a Brine Storage Reservoir.

Most modern diffusion pumps use silicone oil or polyphenyl ethers as the working fluid.

One major disadvantage of diffusion pumps is the tendency to backstream oil into the vacuum chamber.

Due to backstreaming, oil diffusion pumps are not suitable for use with highly sensitive analytical equipment or other applications which require an extremely clean vacuum environment, but mercury diffusion pumps may be in the case of ultra high vacuum chambers used for mercury deposition.

* Diaphragm pumps-similar to plunger pumps, where the plunger pressurizes hydraulic oil which is used to flex a diaphragm in the pumping cylinder.

It is widely used on car engine oil pumps, and also in various hydraulic power packs.

Durable high pressure seals, low pressure seals and oil seals, hardened crankshafts, hardened connecting rods, thick ceramic plungers and heavier duty ball and roller bearings can be designed into triplex pumps to improve reliability.

In the oil and gas fields, massive semi trailer-transported triplex or even quintuplex pumps are used to reinject into the ground produced water from " fracking " and oil production.

Basically, multiphase pumps are used to transport the untreated flow stream produced from oil wells to downstream processes or gathering facilities.

These pumps are basically multistage centrifugal pumps and are widely used in oil well applications as a method for artificial lift.

Some turbomolecular pumps use magnetic bearings to reduce friction and oil contamination.

* Electric Submersible Pump, an artificial lift system that electrically drives multiple centrifugal stage pumps to lift oil and water from wells

Older instruments may have used oil diffusion pumps for high vacuum regions.

Most farm owners have oil or gas pumps in farmland across the town.

Today, many of the oil wells and nodding donkey oil pumps are gone, although some remain.

Wind pumps require little maintenance, only a change of gear box oil annually.

In some designs the camshaft also drives the distributor and the oil and fuel pumps.

Gibb's Gas & Oil Collectibles is an appointment only museum of old gas pumps, gas and oil signs, oil cans, and other service station memorabilia.

Large oil-filled power transformer s will have radiators to cool the insulating oil ( left side of this photo ); some units rely on natural circulation of oil through the radiator, others use pumps.

Siemens ' drives, automation and industrial plant-related products include motors and drives for conveyor belts ; pumps and compressors ; heavy duty motors and drives for rolling steel mills ; compressors for oil and gas pipelines ; mechanical components including gears for wind turbines and cement mills ; automation equipment and systems and controls for production machinery and machine tools ; and industrial plant for water processing and raw material processing.

It pumps blood from the body — called the systemic circulation — through the lungs — called the pulmonary circulation — and then back out to the body.

Contrary to a basic understanding of the cardiovascular system, the heart cannot receive enough oxygen and nutrients from the blood it pumps and it must be supplied with blood as if it were any other organ in the body.

Recently, scientists have identified small pumps on the surface of cancer cells that actively move chemotherapy from inside the cell to the outside.

Cryogenic transfer pumps are the pumps used on LNG piers to transfer liquefied natural gas from LNG carriers to LNG storage tanks, as are cryogenic valves.

: This term is used both for conventional p – n diodes used to monitor temperature due to their varying forward voltage with temperature, and for Peltier heat pumps for thermoelectric heating and cooling .. Peltier heat pumps may be made from semiconductor, though they do not have any rectifying junctions, they use the differing behaviour of charge carriers in N and P type semiconductor to move heat.

An automobile powered by an internal combustion engine may make use of various motors and pumps, but ultimately all such devices derive their power from the engine.

As with Deep Water Culture, there is an airstone in the reservoir that pumps air into the water via a hose from outside the reservoir.

These pumps should be distinguished from other penis pumps ( supplied without compression rings ) which, rather than being used for temporary treatment of impotence, are claimed to increase penis length if used frequently, or vibrate as an aid to masturbation.

* interface to personal computers: Since the late 1990s, most pumps can interface with personal computers for managing and documenting pump programming and / or to upload data from the pump.

Another perceived advantage of pumps is the freedom from syringes and injections, however, infusion sets still require less frequent injections to guide infusion sets into the subcutaneous tissue.

* Steam power – The improved steam engine invented by James Watt and patented in 1775 was at first mainly used to power pumps for pumping water out of mines, but from the 1780s was applied to power other types of machines.

Both of Watt's basic engine types were commercially very successful, and by 1800, the firm Boulton & Watt had constructed 496 engines, with 164 driving reciprocating pumps, 24 serving blast furnaces, and 308 powering mill machinery ; most of the engines generated from 5 to.

The lysosome maintains this pH differential by pumping protons ( H < sup >+</ sup > ions ) from the cytosol across the membrane via proton pumps and chloride ion channels.

These include ion channels that permit electrically charged ions to flow across the membrane, and ion pumps that actively transport ions from one side of the membrane to the other.

Advantages: Rotary pumps are very efficient because they naturally remove air from the lines, eliminating the need to bleed the air from the lines manually.

Reciprocating hand pumps were widely used for pumping water from wells ; the common bicycle pump and foot pumps for inflation use reciprocating action.

Devised in China as chain pumps over 1000 years ago, these pumps can be made from very simple materials: A rope, a wheel and a PVC pipe are sufficient to make a simple rope pump.

Axial-flow pumps differ from radial-flow in that the fluid enters and exits along the same direction parallel to the rotating shaft.

An oilfield solids control system needs many centrifugal pumps to sit on or in mud tanks.