Efficiency of liquid-jet high-pressure booster compressors

There are almost no experimental data on the head-capacity curves for liquid-jet compressors with the inlet gas pressure of liquid-jet apparatus more than 1 MPa. Meanwhile, this range is important for many engineering applications in which relatively low compressor ratio is required for the pumping of gas under high pressure. This is mostly the case when gas circulation is to be provided in a closed or almost closed circuit. A head-capacity curve of a liquid-jet apparatus has been estimated experimentally for the air pumping at up to 2.5 MPa by a water jet. To obtain this curve, a new original technique has been submitted and verified which is based on an inverse unsteady problem of gas pumping and allows derivation of the whole curve instead of one operating point, which is the case for conventional methods. The experiments have demonstrated that the relative head of the liquid-jet compressor grows with the apparatus inlet air pressure in the middle part of the curve.