Hello all, long time lurker here. I appreciate all the wonderful humans on this site and hope I can give back some of the knowledge that I have learned from 2+ years doing CO2, butane, and EtOH extraction(not like that is special on this site).
But for now I have a question for ya’ll because I tried calling Pope but they lazy ass office closes at 4:30 pm. I am helping a lab commission their pope with the three gear pumps option and I can’t exactly figure out how the the gear pumps are supposed to be wired into the material flow.
The first image shows the feed line that was previously installed by someone else, the line goes up(where the heat tape is wrapped around), and tees out in two directions. Both lines end in a 9/17"compression fitting. Is the feed line supposed to feed into the feed flask? I feel like that would not make sense. I’m worried that we may be missing an adapter to go from compression fitting to glass.
The second picture shows what the inlet of the gear pump with a rounded female joint in addition to a compression fitting → flexible bellows → ultra-torr swaglock fitting. Part of me wants to put the feed flask(with the male rounded joint) right on top of the gear pump as a feeding reservoir. Are those actual round bottom joints? I am unfamiliar with the ultra torr swaglock(had to look it up) but it just seems like it could be used as an adapter from steel to glass. It almost fits onto the glass vacuum fitting on the feed flask.
Anyway, pretty specific questions I know but I’m hoping someone out there has experience with these gear pumps because I’m running out of options. Really hope that we are not missing some vital equipment.