Sentences with phrase «which water pressure»

The researchers primed the system by pumping the deep water to the surface, after which the water pressure took over, sending a «geyser» 21 metres into the air.

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The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

Inside the dam, there are turbines, which turn from the water pressure and connect to electricity generators.

The technique uses high - pressure pumps to force contaminated water across a special membrane, which weeds out the bad stuff and lets the pure water through.

Swimmers move their arms quickly through the water, which exerts extra pressure on the watch.

The water they will be drilling up there will be fairly shallow and most scientists believe the oil is under less pressure which improves your margin for safety.

When buying a home espresso maker, look for heavy brass or cast - iron components, which hold heat better than aluminum, and a pump that pushes water through grounds with eight to 11 bars of pressure, which yields a flavorful but not overly bitter brew.

For example, the cost of setting up a full - service state of the art pressure washing cum cleaning facility which has the following features: a seventy foot fully automatic tunnel; 3 high pressure wand self - service bays; 5 vacuum stations complete with fragrance and carpet shampoo dispensing machines, Insulator washers with a pump pressure of about 1000 psi and a nozzle pressure between 500 and 750 psi, centrifugal water pump, stainless steel water storage tank, high - pressure water hose, high - pressure dead - man type water wash gun, electrical grounds for the wash gun and washing system and chemical supplies for cleaning are same especially when bench — marked against the US Dollars.

A combination of climate change (which has significantly shortened the cycles of drought), massive migration to the cities and market pressures to grow cash crops that require huge amounts of water have depleted India's already taxed water supply for rural areas.

Recycling and green energy technologies in the food and beverage industry, left, CST's SFC Screen Extractor, centre, and a successful initiative by Goulburn Mulwaree Council involving medium pressure ultraviolet (UV) disinfection supplied by CST Wastewater Solutions for its effluent irrigation scheme, which has conserved potable water.

The potassium found in coconut water counteracts the effect of sodium in our bodies which helps to lower blood pressure.

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Beans need to be cooked twice as long at 7,000 feet, and above that height, it's nearly impossible to cook them through without the use of a pressure cooker (which raises the boiling point of water).

The water for Icelandic Glacial travels directly from the underground spring into the bottling facility, which maintains a positive air pressure to impede the outside air.

The rotating rim block looks brilliant, it has a two phase refill that cleans and freshens with every flush and a turbine which rotates under the pressure of water which spreads the Domestos Power all around the toilet, preventing limescale and removing dirt while releasing fresh fragrance and rich foam, it sounds so lovely and clean, doesn't it?

A great bonus is that being in the water will make you feel weightless, and reduce pressure on the sciatic nerve, which can be a great pain - reliever for aching legs.

We had problems with one shower, which had extremely poor water pressure.

√ Use plug covers on electrical outlets; wrap up the slack of electrical cords and hide behind furniture √ Tie and place blind cords out of baby's reach, or use cordless window coverings; keep cribs, furniture and toys away from windows and window cords √ Secure all furniture so it will not topple on your child √ Install hardware mounted gates (which are more secure than pressure mounted) at the top and bottom of stairs √ Put latches on doors to keep kids out of certain rooms √ Lock away medicines, cleaning products and poisons, and ensure houseplants are out of reach √ Turn water heater down to 49 °C (120 °F), and test baby's bath water with elbow or wrist to ensure it's warm, not hot √ Don't allow smoking — it's harmful to your infant and butts are poisonous

The most common methods used to ripen the cervix and get contractions started include: inserting medication into your vagina; putting pressure on your cervix with a small, water - filled balloon; stripping or sweeping the membranes, which means your caregiver uses a finger to separate your amniotic sac from the lower part of your uterus; breaking your amniotic sac with a small, hooked tool; and giving you an IV infusion of the drug Pitocin.

It's the use of water to help you calm down and relax — which works towards reducing the discomfort and pressure when laboring.

I remember my midwife trying to get me to drink some water (all I could think was who the hell wants food and drink at this time???), checking the baby's heartbeat (she was fine), and checking my blood pressure, which was an alarming 190 over something (alarming to me, anyway).

Last summer Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted the official moratorium on the controversial drilling technique, which involves shooting a high pressure mixture of water and chemicals into the shale rock deep below the Earth's surface.

While I understand the desire to switch to a domestic energy source and the financial enticement of that, high - pressured hydraulic fracturing, which is a relatively new form of fracturing within the decade, has been linked to a 1000 cases of groundwater contamination, including flammable tap water in Colorado, methane explosions in West Virginia, and poisoned, flammable water in Pennsylvania.

The line had faced opposition from those who didn't want it running through their communities and from foes of hydrofracking, in which gas is tapped using high - pressure water and solvents.

The state had a de facto ban in place as it studied the process, which involves extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep underground.

The Niagara Falls Water Board said it detected a water main break on the Goodyear chemical plant property in the City of Niagara Falls late Thursday night, which resulted in a loss of system pressure affecting local residential and commercial water customers in the service Water Board said it detected a water main break on the Goodyear chemical plant property in the City of Niagara Falls late Thursday night, which resulted in a loss of system pressure affecting local residential and commercial water customers in the service water main break on the Goodyear chemical plant property in the City of Niagara Falls late Thursday night, which resulted in a loss of system pressure affecting local residential and commercial water customers in the service water customers in the service area.

The federal complaint against Mr. Skelos claims that he used his position to pressure a developer, believed to be mega-donor Glenwood Management, into getting his son a no - show consultant job at a company that produced water filtration systems for municipalities, a company which Glenwood holds substantial stock in.

It's also worth noting that the shower head comes with a flow restrictor, which helps you deal with different water pressure situations.

«We've discovered that most trees have regular periodic changes in shape, synchronised across the whole plant and shorter than a day - night cycle, which imply periodic changes in water pressure,» says András Zlinszky...

In «Darwin drift», a high - pressure zone forms at the front of each swimming animal, leaving an area of lower pressure behind, which draws in adjacent water.

In water, fish can change the pressure in their mouths to force water and food, which have about the same density, into their esophagus.

Ryskin proposes that huge deposits of methane and other gases, which are naturally produced in deep - sea waters, became trapped under the pressure of a then - stagnant global ocean.

The resulting organic soup flows into a flash vessel where pressure drops dramatically, liberating some of the water, which returns back upstream to preheat the flow into the first - stage reactor.

The tags have two simple sensors — one pressure gauge, and one saltwater detector — which together allow the researchers to determine how much time the walruses are spending in the water, and at what depths.

If the planet is covered by an immense amount of water, the pressure at the bottom of the ocean will increase to such an extent that water occurs in the form of «Ice VII,» which does not exist on Earth.

A first - stage reactor breaks down the stuff with heat and pressure, after which the pressure rapidly drops, flashing off excess water and minerals.

It is mainly driven by the wind — which pushes water landward — and the low pressure of the storm that causes the water to arch like a convex lens.

In the planet's interior, pressure forces olivine to transform into the minerals wadsleyite and ringwoodite, which hold more water.

Gas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposits.

This pressure allows these cells to suck water from adjoining cells which, in turn, take water from their adjoining cells, and so on — from leaves to twigs to branches to stems and down to the roots — maintaining a continuous pull.

Charles Theis, a poet and an engineer who once studied Kentucky's geology by walking across the state, theorized that water moved in the Earth according to the same properties by which heat moved in a solid object — that is, it seeps from areas of high pressure to low pressure.

If there were positive pressure in the stem, you would expect a stream of water to come out, which rarely happens.

The distinctive waves with capped tops and cloudless troughs are created by what's known as velocity shear, which occurs when a fluid or two different fluids — wind and water, for example — interact at different speeds to create differing pressures at the back and front ends of the wave.

Hales conducted a number of experiments between 1719 and 1725 in which he measured the pressure exerted by water moving through a plant.

An off - the - shelf pressure washer will pump up 1.8 liters of tap water per minute, to a maximum of 190 liters, says Hunt, which will evaporate or fall down to the ground locally.

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, which involves pumping water and chemicals at high pressure thousands of meters below the ground to release gas from shale, has created an energy boom in the United States.

There are four types of blast trauma injury: 1) primary injury caused directly by the pressure wave, which can travel through tissue at velocities close to that of sound in water, 2) secondary injury caused by objects put in motion by the blast, 3) tertiary injury caused by an individual thrown into motion by the blast and hitting surrounding objects, and 4) quaternary injury caused by burns, explosion - related injuries, illnesses and diseases not attributed to the other three blast trauma types.

«This is why the water industry is now focusing on preventing the pressure changes which enable contaminants to enter the system, rather than eliminating the leaks through which they enter.»

Oxygen atoms ringing the pore bonded to one water molecule, which then entered the spherical cage under high temperature and pressure (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1206376).