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VA POUR PUMPING SYSTEM [1 record]

Record 1 2005-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geophysics
  • Machinery
CONT

As an alternative to the use of pumps, with their attendant problems of maintenance and of using special materials, the author devised a system of vapour pumping, or, to use a more graphic if less scientific term, "pumpless pumping", which would have worked on the principle illustrated ... [in this book].

Key term(s)
  • vapour-pumping system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géophysique
  • Machines
CONT

Comme alternative à l'emploi des pompes, avec leurs problèmes concomitants d'entretien et d'utilisation de matériaux spéciaux, l'auteur conçut un système de pompage de la vapeur ou, pour employer un terme plus pittoresque sinon scientifique, de «pompage sans pompe» qui aurait fonctionné selon le principe illustré [...] [dans ce livre].

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