Application of Compressors

APPLICATION OF COMPRESSORS

Ø Reciprocating compressors are typically used where high compression ratios (ratio of discharge to suction pressures) are required per stage without high flow rates, and the process fluid is relatively dry.

Ø Screw compressors: Trailer mounted diesel powered units are often seen at construction sites, and are used to power air operated construction machinery.

Ø P.E.T bottling industries, gas filling stations usually use reciprocating compressors.

Ø Processing equipment, Oxygen Generators Oil Atomization use compressors of required capacity.

Ø Air compressors: a compressor that takes in air at atmospheric pressure and delivers it at a higher pressure.

Ø Compressors serve the basic necessities & form an integral part of the company .

Ø Pneumatic brakes

Ø Pneumatic drills

Ø Pneumatic jacks

Ø Pneumatic lifts

Ø Spray painting

Ø Shop cleaning

Ø Injecting fuel in Diesel engines

Ø Refrigeration and Air conditioning systems.

CONCEPT OF AIR COMPRESSOR

Introduction:

Ø The process of increasing the pressure of air, gas or vapour by reducing its volume is what compression.

Ø The devise used to carry out this process is called a compressor.

Principles on which compressors work:

Ø A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume.

Ø Compressor is a machine which increases the pressure of a fluid by mechanically decreasing its volume (i.e. by compressing it).(The fluid here is generally air since liquids are theoretically incompressible).