A water pump is a machine that transports or pressurizes a liquid. It transfers the mechanical energy of the prime mover or other external energy to the liquid, increasing the liquid energy, and is mainly used to transport liquids including water, oil, acid-base liquid, emulsion, suspoemulsion and liquid metal.
Liquids, gas mixtures and liquids with suspended solids can also be transported. The technical parameters of water pump performance include flow, suction, head, shaft power, water power, efficiency, etc.; according to different working principles, it can be divided into volumetric pumps, vane pumps and other types. Positive displacement pump uses the change of its working chamber volume to transfer energy; vane pump uses the interaction between rotating blades and water to transfer energy, including centrifugal pump, axial flow pump and mixed flow pump.