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Gear Pump
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gear pump [′gir ‚pəmp]
(mechanical engineering)
A rotary pump in which two meshing gear wheels contrarotate so that the fluid is entrained on one side and discharged on the other.

Gear Pump 

a rotary pump with gears as working members. Involute straight-cut, helical, or herringbone gears are ordinarily used. Such pumps are simple in design, compact, and reliable. Their output ranges from 0.25 to 40 cu m per hr at pressures up to 3 meganewtons per m2 (30 kg-force per cm2). Gear pumps are used mainly for circulating petroleum products in machine lubrication systems and in hydraulic drive mechanisms.



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For applications requiring higher flow rates, higher pressures or aggressive dosing fluids, Bronkhorst employs HNP micro annular gear pumps, for flows up to 70kg/h, and Micropump liquid gear pumps, for flows up to 1000 kg/h, both series again offering high precision dosing and pulseless delivery.
 
 
 
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