Welcome to the home page of the Fluid Machinery Group (FMG), the Group which is responsible for promoting equipment used in the movement and transportation of fluids, both liquid and gaseous.

Fluid machinery is essential to mankind, being found in all walks of life:
 

• Pumps can send drinking water to your home, feed power station boilers or move chemicals around a process plant
• Compressors can transport gases around distribution systems or through process plants or provide air for power tools. Fans can blow cool air into your office, provide coolant to nuclear reactors or ventilate the Channel Tunnel
• Turbines are used to generate motive power from water, the wind or any process where fluids have energy to spare

The FMG currently has approximately 10,000 members who have registered an interest in our areas of excellence. The Group is represented by a Board of 21 members who have expertise in one or more of our key areas of interest and meets four times a year.

We aim to serve the wider membership by organising relevant events which reflect the interest of our members. We also represent our members' views in responses to government consultation papers and in discussions with other learned societies, both in the UK and overseas. In addition, some of our Board members carry responsibility for representing the Fluid Machinery Industry at meetings of national and international committees on standards and legislation whilst maintaining strong links to other organisations involved in related aspects of fluid machinery.

The purpose of this web page is to keep you informed of the activities being organised by the FMG on your behalf and to provide a means through which grass roots suggestions for the organisation of particular events can be channelled. Should you have ideas as to the shape or content of future events or wish to contribute in any way to existing planned events please email us at fmg@imeche.org.

Dr Harald Carrick
Chairman and Fluid Machinery Group