Originally Posted by
azammakda
I agree with your first statement about mass flow. I was thinking the same.
As you said:
'If you had a compressor that you load manually to drive suction pressure down, it will initially have higher mass flow then taper off as suction pressure decreases." This means that mass flow will decrease as the compressor loads ?
This cannot be right as the compressor loads, it will compress more gas as far as i think.
I am trying to find the reason for lowering of suction pressure and increase of discharge pressure as the compressor loads