Abstract: A supersonic device including an elongated mixer-diffuser housing having first and second drive nozzles arranged axially and tandemly therein. The first and second drives nozzles are arranged in first and second cylinder parts, respectively, of the mixer-diffuser housing. A conical first mixer part is disposed between the first and second cylinder parts and defines a first mixing zone therein. The second drive nozzle further comprises a generally conical displacement body, preferably configured as a supersonic cone or wedge, which extends into the conical first mixer part.

Abstract: A process for operating a jet pump with a driving nozzle from which a driving medium, especially steam, exits at supersonic speed, this driving medium mixing with a gaseous load medium. According to the invention, downstream of the outlet of the nozzle in the mixing region the circumferential length is increased by a cross-sectional shape of the driving jet diverging from the circle in order to eliminate the azimuthal symmetry of the vortex structure of the driving medium, wherein the respective cross-sectional surface corresponding to the principle of continuity beginning in the jet direction with a circular cross section in the supersonic portion of the jet corresponds to the circular cross-section surface of the driving medium in conventional supersonic nozzles.