Q: When the water reaches the fill level in my washing machine and the agitation cycle starts, I always hear a loud series of bangs in the pipes behind the wall. What’s causing this? Will it harm the ...

Hydraulic transients, most notably water hammer, represent critical phenomena in fluid transmission systems, involving rapid pressure fluctuations triggered by the sudden opening or closure of valves ...

Most operators know that air should be kept out of a heat exchanger’s cooling water supply line. Air can collect in pockets and block flow, increasing velocities, increasing system resistance, ...