Possible it uses increased effective density of the air via droplet emulsion to get high compression on a single stage. At high enough isothermal compression ratios, the air could theoretically come out drier (per mass) than it went in, once you separate liquid. Neat!
for centrifugal compressors, the multiphase flow makes it rather different. the difference between < 25 micron droplets and larger ones is extreme, the larger droplets will rapidly exit the flow, so you need very well developed nozzle tech also
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Yea that makes sense, but was definitely not my first thought. I'm sure there's so many things like this.
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centrifugal compressors primarily differ from axial flow in the direction of flow, they don’t really use the centrifugal force much, so it might be different from how you‘d expect there’s a droplet waterfall compressor called a tromphe, but this is not like a centrifugal tromphe
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