Practical Engineering

Do Pumps Create Pressure or Flow? (2021x7)

Air date: May 04, 2021

Explaining how pumps produce both pressure and flow with some fun water demonstrations. There’s a popular and persistent saying that pumps only create flow in a fluid, and resistance to that flow is what creates the pressure in a pipe. This video goes into some details about how two kinds of pumps work: centrifugal pumps and positive displacement pumps.