National Fluid Power Association

Societies and Organizations. Numerous societies and associations, such as the International Fluid Power Society, protect the integrity of the field with a variety of certification processes. Each country has its own division in the United States there is also the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

National Fluid Power Association http //www.nfpa.com (accessed October 29, 2010). NFPA s mission is to advance hydraulic and pneumatic motion control technology and to act for and represent, on a worldwide basis, companies active in the U.S. fluid power industry (from Web site). 

No information concerning the specific production volumes of mineral oil hydraulic fluids was found in the available literature. The National Petroleum Refiners Association (NPRA 1992) reported that 192 million gallons of automatic transmission fluids, universal tractor hydraulic/transmission fluids, energy/ shock absorber and power steering fluids, and other automotive hydraulic fluids were sold in 1991. Virtually all of these fluids are mineral oil hydraulic fluids (Chrisope and Landry 1993 Papay 1989, 1991 Wills 1980). This volume is lower than sales volumes for 1990 (216 million gallons), 1989 (221 million... 

Sodium, used as a heat transfer fluid, can most effectively remove heat from a fast breeder reactor. Development work on sodium handling at Argonne National Laboratory in 1945 led to the first turbine-electric power from nuclear energy in 1951. This paper presents the engineering mock-up of the experimental breeder reactor II and illustrates associated pumps, valves, and instrumentation. The past year s successful operation of the EBR-II mock-up has demonstrated that sodium technology is adequate for the job. Properly used, sodium may be the key to the problem of really using the elusive atom. 

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