Inventing a New Category of Pumps With Hilary Johnson

This week Bethany and Bekah talk about how the Instagram algorithm and how to use that knowledge to grow your audience.

Then Charli interviews Hilary Johnson, an MIT doctoral student, all about her invention process and research that led to the invention of a new kind of centrifugal pump called a “variable volute” pump.

[Interview Starts at 29:24]

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Hilary Johnson, an MIT doctoral student, who just won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, has solved a big problem related to hydraulic pump inefficiencies. She has invented an entirely new kind of centrifugal pump (called a “variable volute” pump) that does something engineering experts previously thought was impossible — it physically adjusts to more efficiently move water based on immediate need, resulting in energy and cost savings. The 5 percent energy improvement over the lifetime of a pump is a huge savings considering the hundreds of billions of kilowatt hours they consume.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilary-anna-johnson/
https://www.hilaryannajohnson.com/
email: hilaryj@mit.edu

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