How does a twin-screw pump separate the suction chamber from the discharge chamber?
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Laypeople don’t quite understand this; can someone explain it? There is already a gap between the threads of the screw, and logically, the suction chamber and the discharge chamber should be connected to each other
They won’t communicate with each other. Simply put, for a twin-screw pump, one pitch of the rotor corresponds to one sealed chamber; as shown in the diagram below, there are 3 sealed chambers