Patent attributes
Methods and fluid supply systems are provided for supplying fluids while adjusting a pump discharge pressure to compensate for downstream pressure changes. The fluid supply system comprises a variable displacement piston (VDP) pump configured to supply a fluid at a pump discharge pressure, fuel metering units (FMUs) downstream of the VDP pump, each of the FMUs configured to receive the fluid from the VDP pump at the pump discharge pressure and supply the fluid at metered flow discharge pressures, and a pump compensator valve fluidically coupled with the FMUs to receive the fluid therefrom at the metered flow discharge pressures and configured to continuously, either fluidically or mechanically, adjust the pump discharge pressure of the VDP pump between a higher of a minimum pump discharge pressure and a floating ceiling pump discharge pressure, the floating ceiling pump discharge pressure based on a highest of the metered flow discharge pressures.
