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Kapit Pump OG

CERN-OHL-S-2.0

A Deep Sea Pressure Balanced Peristaltic Pump.

Oceanography Hardware Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution updated 2026-10-14

Provided as-is No support or updates are planned.

This is the original design for a deep sea in-situ peristaltic pump in a pressure balanced oil-filled housing. Oil filled flexible tubing used for the wiring acts as the pressure balancing bladder.

The back of the pump housing acts as a junction box to run additional PBOF lines to other pumps or other instrumentation.

Maturity

In routine service as everyday equipment (7/10, self-assessed)

Used regularly on instrumentation with good reliability.

Contributors

Funding

National Science Foundation (OCE-1736332)

Cite this project

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23355308

Project DOI (always points at the latest version): 10.5281/zenodo.23355308

Latest version DOI (v1): 10.5281/zenodo.23355309 · All versions

Record on OSPREY: https://osprey.phalkon.io/p/7e5e8777-cef1-4734-ab9e-d92316a690b6/

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peristaltic pump

Publications using this project

Lina Taenzer, Scott D Wankel, Jason Kapit, William A Pardis, Santiago Herrera, Steven Auscavitch, Kalina C Grabb, Erik Cordes, Colleen M Hansel, Corals and sponges are hotspots of reactive oxygen species in the deep sea, PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 11, November 2023, pgad398, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad398
Taenzer L, Grabb K, Kapit J, Pardis W, Wankel SD, Hansel CM. Development of a Deep-Sea Submersible Chemiluminescent Analyzer for Sensing Short-Lived Reactive Chemicals. Sensors. 2022; 22(5):1709. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22051709