At 05:33 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, Alex Fraser wrote:
Although not as fancy these have been used for years. If I remember
correctly they were called "injector" pumps. I learned of them in the
Merchant Marine, but I seem to remember some railroad references of it
being used to suck water out of streams
Can this pump against high head pressure?
It looks like they are getting mass flow at low pressure.
When they talk of their advantages it doesn't sound like the qualities a rocket
requires.
High Flow, & High Pressure.
States Advantages
* It is a highly effective solids handling pump that contains
At 12:44 PM 6/23/2003 -0700, David Weinshenker wrote:
I'm not sure we'd want to supject peroxide to the "highly energetic flow in
the shockwave zone", though...
Maybe not... but peroxide is not the only oxidizer :).
-p
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Although not as fancy these have been used for years. If I remember
correctly they were called "injector" pumps. I learned of them in the
Merchant Marine, but I seem to remember some railroad references of it
being used to suck water out of streams to get water for the engine.
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Pierce Nichols wrote:
>
> I mentioned this to those at CDI on Sat. It's a steam-powered pump with no
> moving parts whatsoever, being developed by a British company called
> Pursuit Dynamics. They're thinking of using it for boat propulsion and
> industrial pumping. I think it might be usable for
I mentioned this to those at CDI on Sat. It's a steam-powered pump with no
moving parts whatsoever, being developed by a British company called
Pursuit Dynamics. They're thinking of using it for boat propulsion and
industrial pumping. I think it might be usable for propellant pumping as
well. T
