Find General Efficiency of Reciprocating Pumps

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Does anybody know where I can find the general efficiency of reciprocating pump?
 
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More specifically, isentropic pump efficiency is defined as:

[tex]\eta_{p}=\frac{\left(-Wdot_{cv}/mdot\right)_{s}}{\left(-Wdot_{cv}/mdot\right)}[/tex]

Where:

[tex]\left(\frac{-Wdot_{cv}}{mdot}\right)_{s}=h_{2s}-h_{1}[/tex]
and
[tex]\left(\frac{-Wdot_{cv}}{mdot}\right)=h_{2}-h_{1}[/tex]