NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING

LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
Special test
English I - Mechanical Engineering
Name Nahomi Paola Gutierrez Perez Number 16

Date Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Group 1T2-Mec

Uses of Pump
Exercise I: Choose the correct verb tense in the reading, and circle it in red.

1. Pumps are used throughout society for a variety of purposes. 2. Early applications includes the use
of the windmill pump water. 3. Today, the pump is (used/use) for irrigation, water supply, gasoline
supply, in the car industry for water-cooling and fuel injection air
conditioning systems, refrigeration(usually called a compressor),
chemical movement, sewage movement, flood control,
Mechanical pumps (serve/serves) in a wide range of applications
such as pumping water from wells, aquarium filtering, filtering
and aeration, in the energy industry for pumping oil and natural
gas or for operating cooling towers. 4. In the medical industry,
pumps are used for biochemical processes in developing and
manufacturing medicine, and as artificial replacements for body
parts, in particular the artificial heart and prosthesis.
5. Because of the wide variety of applications, pumps have a
variety of shapes and sizes: from very large to very small, from
handling gas to handling liquid, from high pressure to low
pressure, and from high volume to low volume.
6. A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action.
7. Pumps (operates/ operate) by some mechanism (typically reciprocating or rotary), and
consume energy to perform mechanical work by moving the fluid.
8. Mechanical pumps serve in a wide range of applications such as pumping water from wells, aquarium
filtering, filtering and aeration, in the car industry for water-cooling and fuel injection, in the energy
industry for (pumps/pumping) oil and natural gas or for operating cooling towers.
Capacity and Viscosity
9. A major difference between the pump types is the effect of viscosity on capacity:

 In a Centrifugal Pump the flow is reduced when the viscosity is increased

 In a Positive Displacement Pump the flow is increased when viscosity is increased

10. Liquids with high viscosity fills the clearances of Positive Displacement Pumps causing higher
volumetric efficiencies and Positive Displacement Pumps are better suited for higher viscosity
applications.11. A Centrifugal Pump becomes very inefficient at even modest viscosity.

Mechanical Efficiency
12. The pumps behaves different considering mechanical efficiency as well.

 Changing the system pressure or head has little or no effect on the flow rate in a Positive
Displacement Pump
 Changing the system pressure or head may have a dramatic effect on the flow rate in a
Centrifugal Pump

Pumps as public water supplies

13. One sort of pump once common worldwide was a hand-powered water pump. 14. It was commonly
installed over community water wells in the days before piped water supplies.
15. Because water from pitcher pumps is drawn directly from the soil, it is more prone to
contamination.16. If such water is not (filtered/filttered) and purified, consumption of it might lead to
gastrointestinal or other water-borne diseases.
17. For midstream and upstream operations, multiphase pumps can be located on shore and can be
connected to single or multiple wellheads. 18. Basically, multiphase pumps (are/is) used to transport
the untreated flow stream produced from oil wells to downstream processes or gathering facilities. 19.
This means that the pump may handle a flow stream (well stream) from 100 percent gas to 100 percent
liquid and every imaginable combination in between.20. The flow stream can also contain abrasives
such as sand and dirt.21. Multiphase pumps are designed to operate under changing or fluctuating
process conditions.22. Multiphase pumping also helps eliminate emissions of greenhouse gases as
operators strive to minimize the flaring of gas and the venting of tanks where possible.
23. Pumps are in general classified as Centrifugal Pumps (or Roto-dynamic pumps) and Positive Displacement
Pumps.

Positive Displacement Pumps

24. A positive displacement pump operates by alternating filling a cavity and then displacing a given
volume of liquid. 25. A positive displacement pump (deliver/delivers) a constant volume of liquid for
each cycle independent of discharge pressure or head.

26. The positive displacement pump can be classified as:

  Reciprocating pumps - piston, plunger and diaphragm
 Power pumps
 Steam pumps
 Rotary pumps - gear, lobe, screw, vane, regenerative (peripheral) and progressive cavity

Centrifugal Pumps (Roto-dynamic pumps)

27. The centrifugal or roto-dynamic pump (produce/produces) a head and a flow by increasing the
velocity of the liquid through the machine with the help of the rotating vane impeller.28. Centrifugal
pumps include radial, axial and mixed flow units.

29. Centrifugal pumps can be classified further as

 end suction pumps  submersible pumps

 in-line pumps  self-priming pumps
 double suction pumps  axial-flow pumps
 vertical multistage pumps  regenerative pumps
 horizontal multistage pumps

Vocabulary:
1. Windmill : molino
2. Slurries : lodo liquido
3. flow stream: corriente de flujo
4. Displacement: desplazamiento
5. Supply: suministro
6. Range: rango
7. Filtering: filtracion
Exercise II: Translate the following expressions in Spanish
1. Pumping water from wells. Sentence # ___8____

Bombeo de agua de pozos

2. Artificial replacements for body parts. Sentence # __12_____

Reemplazos artificiales para partes del cuerpo.

3. Changing the system pressure or head has little or no effect on the flow rate. Sentence # __25_____
Cambias la presion o el cabezal del Sistema tiene poco o ningun efecto sobre el caudal.
4. The flow stream can also contain abrasives such as sand and dirt .sentence # __27_____

La corriente de flujo tambien puede contener abrasivos como arena y suciedad.

Exercise III: Exercise III: you have to write sentences in English based on your career

a. Two simple sentence

1. Mechanics is the branch of physics that studies and analyzes the movements and rest of
bodies.
2. Mechanics is a science belonging to physics.

Exercise IV:
2. In sentence ___________there is a definition and its parts are
a) Term: ___________________________________

b) Class: ___________________________________
c) Marker: _________________________________
d) Function: ________________________________
e) Type of definition: _________________________
Exercise V: Make a classification about “USES OF PUMP” in three-level bracket
diagram. It is necessary to write on it the main information.

Pumps are used

throughout society for a
variety of purposes.

Mechanical pumps serve in a wide range of

applications such as pumping water from
Concept wells, aquarium filtering, filtering and aeration, in
the car industry for water-cooling and fuel injection, in
the energy industry for (pumps/pumping)
oil and natural gas or for operating cooling towers.
Mechanical pumps serve in a wide range of
applications such as pumping water from
wells, aquarium filtering, filtering and aeration, in
the car industry for water-cooling and fuel injection, in
the energy industry for (pumps/pumping)
oil and natural gas or for operating cooling towers.

end suction pumps

in-line pumps
double suction pumps
vertical multistage pumps
horizontal multistage pumps
Centrifugal Pumps (Roto- Centrifugal pumps can be
dynamic pumps) classified further as
submersible pumps

Uses of pump
self-priming pumps
axial-flow pumps
. Pumps are in general classified regenerative pumps
as Centrifugal Pumps (or Roto-
dynamic pumps) and Positive
Displacement Pumps.
Pumps as public water
supplies

One sort of pump once common

worldwide was a hand-powered
water pump

In a Centrifugal Pump the flow is

reduced when the viscosity is
increased
A major difference between the
Capacity and Viscosity pump types is the effect of
viscosity on capacity:
In a Positive Displacement
Pump the flow is increased when
viscosity is increased