Question: I want to transport liquefied gas (refrigerant R32). The liquefied gas is under pressure, for example, 20 kilograms of pressure So does the head of the pump I choose need to be over 200m?
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RT has no prior experience in the liquefied gas industry, and now I’m facing a problem: it is necessary to transport R32 in a liquefied state. Since this gas vaporizes easily, it needs to be stored in tanks at high pressure in its liquefied form; assuming that the operating pressure of the tank is 20 kilograms. So, does the transfer pump for the storage tank need to be one with a head of over 200 meters? Is it still not necessary to consider this pressure, and can we simply focus on the pressure drop in the pipeline as we would for the transportation of ordinary liquids?
No need. The pressure resistance of the pump body must be at least 2 Mpa; the required head is determined based on the process requirements.
Not necessarily, because there are balance pipes connecting them.