About The Pump Room

The Pump Room is an independent publishing project about industrial pump engineering. It exists for one reason: the working knowledge of fluid handling — the practical understanding of suction head, dosing accuracy, seal selection, and bearing care that keeps process plants running — is scattered across vendor catalogues, paywalled standards, and the memories of retiring engineers. We gather the fundamentals in one place, in plain language, free to read.

What We Are Not

We are not a manufacturer, distributor, repair shop, or sales agency. We do not sell, service, supply, or endorse pumps or any other product, and we are not affiliated with, sponsored by, or connected to any pump company — including Nikkiso Co., Ltd. of Japan, whose former American subsidiary once operated a corporate website at this domain. That company remains very much in business; anyone seeking its products or support should locate its current official channels. This site has no relationship with it whatsoever, and any mention of historical businesses here is purely descriptive.

The Story of This Address

Domains, like industrial buildings, outlive their first tenants. In the early 2000s this address hosted the sales office site of a metering-pump manufacturer — datasheets, press releases, trade-show announcements, the standard corporate furniture of the era. When the business consolidated its web presence elsewhere, the domain eventually expired, drifted through the usual purgatory of parking pages, and was finally picked up by people who thought its history suggested a better use: a permanent, vendor-neutral home for pump engineering knowledge.

We kept the old structure where it made sense — the address of the products page, the news page, this about page — because old addresses, like old machine foundations, are worth reusing when they are sound. Everything built on top of them is new and original.

Editorial Approach

Our pages aim for the tone of a good plant handbook: specific enough to be useful, plain enough to be read at the end of a long shift. We favor the physics over the brand name, the principle over the part number. Where a topic is governed by a recognized standard, we say so and point to the source — the Hydraulic Institute's standards for terminology and testing, ASME codes for pressure equipment, API standards for refinery service. We would rather send you to an authoritative document than paraphrase it badly.

Nothing here is a substitute for engineering judgment. Pump selection and system design decisions affect safety and should be made by qualified engineers working from current manufacturer data and applicable codes. Treat this site as the colleague who explains the concept clearly — not as the stamp on the drawing.

How to Use the Site

The technology section covers the major pump families one by one. The Engineering Notes are longer-form articles on cross-cutting topics like cavitation, selection, and reliability. The glossary defines the vocabulary, and the resources page collects the institutions and standards every fluid-handling engineer should know. If you spot an error, we genuinely want to hear about it — use the contact page.