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The article describes the prospects for experimental research of liquid-vapor jet devices with adaptable geometry of the flow part of the primary flow nozzle. To formulate the research objectives, a critical analysis of state-of-the-art studies was conducted among native and foreign scientists studying two-phase jet devices. As a result, of the literature survey, we saw that the working process of the two-phase jet devices, which include liquid-vapor jet devices, is quite complicated to study. So, the achieved results of theoretical studies require clarification and the conduction of additional experimental studies. The article provides a description and experimental research method on the liquid-vapor jet devices with a replaceable diffuser part of the primary flow nozzle. The program and the method contain the range of changing operational parameters while conducting experimental studies. The functional scheme of the experimental scheme and the devices to control and measure pressure in the critical points of the scheme are proposed.

We consider the influence of vapor content in the mixed flow leaving a liquid-vapor ejector on the energy efficiency of a vacuum unit. As shown by numerical studies of liquid-vapor ejectors, this issue is important as vapor overproduction, which accompanies the process of secondary flow ejection, directly impacts the efficiency of the working process of both the liquid-vapor ejector and the vacuum unit as a whole. The greater the degree of vapor overproduction, the greater the load on the vapor phase of the separator, which is part of the vacuum unit. In addition, the liquid phase must be returned to the cycle to ensure the constancy of the mass flow rate of the working fluid of the primary flow. Our numerical study results revealed the rational value of the degree of vapor overproduction at which the efficiency of the liquid–vapor ejector was maximized, and the amount of additional working fluid that needed to enter the cycle of the vacuum unit was minimal. Experimental condition monitoring studies on the liquid–vapor ejector were carried out on plane-parallel transparent models with different flow path geometries. Through experimental studies, we confirmed and adjusted the values of the achievable efficiency of the working process of a liquid–vapor ejector, depending on the degree of vapor overproduction. Using a comparative analysis of liquid–vapor ejectors with different flow path geometries, differences were revealed in their working processes, which consisted of the degree of completion of the mixing of the working media of primary and secondary flows. To determine the feasibility of using liquid–vapor ejectors with different flow path geometries, exergy analysis was performed, resulting in achievable efficiency indicators.

The article contains the possibility of increasing boiling fluid flowing efficiency from expanding channels. This process takes place in the motive flow nozzle of a liquid-vapor ejector, working on the principle of thermal stream compression. Efficiency increasing by profiling the diffuser part of the nozzle. Modern industry uses nozzles, which are like de Laval nozzles, with straight walls of the diffusers. The authors suggest paying closer attention to profiling these nozzles, which might increase their efficiency and improve their gas-dynamic characteristics. For comparison, we choose a channel of a traditional form (with straight walls of the diffuser) and a channel of parabolic shape. The article contains a mathematical model to calculate the process of flowing the boiling fluid from the authors-designed channels – the peculiarities of this model that appear after changing the geometry of its streaming part. We obtain comparative analysis calculation results based on the mathematical model and the Ansys CFX workflow model. As a result of numerical calculation using the authors mathematical model and modelling in the Ansys CFX software package, it concludes that the parabolic shape of the diffuser is the most favourable. In the boiling process, the liquid central core is boiling at the optimum distance from the nozzle throat, and the flow of a stable vapor structure with the required pressure value for each regime forming at the outlet.