Every time you take a breath, you are inhaling Earths atmosphere.

Earths
atmosphere is made up of a mix of gases called air. Air flows through our body. Air is
an example of a fluid. A fluid is a substance that is capable of flowing. It has no
definite shape of its own. It assumes the shape of its container. Liquids and gases
are fluids. A pump is a device that expends energy in order to raise, transport, or
compress fluids. Our heart acts like a pump. The heart pump bloods to the lungs to
pick up oxygen then pumps the oxygenated blood out to the rest of the body. Pumps
are important to us (agricultural etc.). A simple water pump is helping to improve
the lives of poor families in several countries. A simple water pump is used for
providing water to farm land through irrigation where a family's livelihood depends
on. Vehicle water pumps help regulate the flow of water through a vehicles cooling
system. There are two broad classes of pumps, kinetic and positive displacement
pump. In a kinetic pump, energy is continuously added to the liquid to increase its
velocity. When the liquid velocity is subsequently reduced, this produces a pressure
increase. A centrifugal pump is an example of kinetic pump. It consists of an
impeller attached to and rotating with the shaft, and a casing that encloses the
impeller. Since the rotational mechanical energy is transferred to the fluid, at the
discharge side of the impeller, both the pressure and kinetic energy of the water will
rise. At the suction side, water is getting displaced, so a negative pressure will be
induced at the eye. Such a low pressure helps to suck fresh water stream into the
system again, and this process continues. In a positive displacement pump, energy
is periodically added to the liquid by the direct application of a force to one or more
movable volumes of liquid.
In a Positive Displacement pump liquid flows into a contained space, such as a
cylinder, plunger, or rotor. Then a moving piston forces the liquid out of the cylinder,
increasing the pressure. The use of positive displacement pumps is common in
applications that require high discharge pressure and relatively low flow. Positive
Displacement pump can be divided into two main classes, reciprocating and rotary.
Reciprocating pumps include piston, plunger, and diaphragm types; rotary pumps
include gear, lobe, and screw, vane, and cam pumps. Piston and plunger pumps
consist of a cylinder in which a piston or plunger moves back and forth. In plunger
pumps the plunger moves through a stationary packed seal and is pushed into the
fluid, while in piston pumps the packed seal is carried on the piston that pushes the
fluid out of the cylinder. As the piston moves outward, the volume available in the
cylinder increases and fluid enters through the one-way inlet valve. As the piston
moves inward, the volume available in the cylinder decreases, the pressure of the
fluid increases, and the fluid is forced out through the outlet valve. A bicycle pump
for example is a reciprocating pump.