In the industrial world, engineers don’t need to know much more than a pressure and flow rate to properly size a pump, but specifications for miniature positive-displacement pumps destined for medical diagnostic and therapy devices and analytical chemical equipment – applications with small, precise flow rates and pressures – can be more demanding.
In many cases, such applications use pumps to aspirate, i.e., suck or pull in fluids from a reservoir, and then dispense them, i.e.; push out or release fluids. In some cases a single pump handles both tasks.
What types of pumps are available for these applications? What is a pump’s resolution? How are a pump’s accuracy and repeatability expressed? Do pumps vary in how fast they can dispense fluids?
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