The working medium issue of hydraulic jet pumps
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I now want to use a high-pressure process with a liquid medium (15 atm) to compress a gas at atmospheric pressure to 5–6 atm. Assuming an efficiency of 40%, the pumping ratio is estimated to be 5. The problem is that my process fluid may vaporize at atmospheric pressure; however, I believe that due to heat transfer limitations associated with vaporization, there is a rate issue, and I’m not sure whether pumping is still possible under these conditions
Is the poster referring to a hydraulic jet pump or a water ring pump?
For the hydraulic jet pump, I need to use C4 as the working medium to compress the gas to 5–6 bar. I don’t know what the vaporization rate of C4 is at 1 bar? Will it prevent the gas from being compressed properly?