Fluid Technology

Breaking Galileo’s 400 year-old record
The pumping of liquids is probably the most critical process underlying the prosperity of our civilisation. Modern pumps are based on ancient concepts. The first to push liquids was the screw pump of Archimedes, more than 2,000 years ago. In 1594 came Galileo’s piston pump, which worked on the pull concept.

Bio Mechanical Pump

Description of the problem:
Since the days of Galileo Galilei it has been an established fact that a surface pump is incapable of “lifting” or “pulling” water from a reservoir more than 10 metres down. In practice, the limitation is more like 6-7 metres. If a reservoir of water or oil is more than 7 metres deep the pump must be installed at the bottom of the well, a requirement that entails technological challenges as well as much higher costs and energy consumption.

Clavis’ solution:
Clavis Impulse Generator has been recently installed 45 metres above a water reservoir and yet it successfully pumped water upwards. Galileo’s 400-year-old distance record was beaten by 450 %! Impulse pumps have no “suction lift limit” and can be installed outside the pipe line, on the surface or on top of platforms regardless of the depth of a well.

With the Clavis Impulse Generator, gravitation is no longer the limiting force, as it was for Galileo’s pump and still is for conventional modern pumps that sit at the bottom of wells and pull liquid upwards.