Standard pump component characteristic curve should be expressed in terms of normal flow rates for gases

[oporras]

Hello everyone,

As the attached Python simple code shows when compared with the curve of standard pump P2, pandapipes library considers the flow rate of standard pumps at actual inlet conditions of the gas. However, this way is inconvenient because, in many application cases, the pressure and temperature at the inlet are a priori unknown. Typically, compressor manufacturers give the volumetric flow rate in the characteristic curve at the normal thermodynamic state.

For incompressible fluids, the density variation between actual and normal states is negligible for many practical cases.

I wonder if pandapipes can consider the characteristic curve of the pump/compressor as expressed in terms of a volumetric flow rate at normal conditions instead of inlet conditions.

testStdPumpWithAGas.py.zip