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thumb|A small stationary high pressure breathing air compressor for filling scuba cylinders thumb|A powerful compressor for street work. Model XASS from Atlas Copco circa 1985. thumb|right|Natural gas compressor at a gas well thumb|right|High pressure reciprocating compressor from Belliss and Morcom, used in the bottling industry A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. An air compressor is a specific type of gas compressor.
A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume, with air compressors being a common type used for applications like filling scuba tanks, powering street work equipment, and industrial bottling processes. Compressors matter because they enable gases to be stored, transported, and used more efficiently in a wide range of practical applications.
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- Types
- Positive displacement
- Reciprocating compressors
- Ionic liquid piston compressor
- Rotary screw compressors
- Rotary vane compressors
- Rolling piston
- Scroll compressors
- Diaphragm compressors
- Dynamic
- Air bubble compressor
- Centrifugal compressors
- Diagonal or mixed-flow compressors
- Axial compressors
- {{Anchor|Hermetically-sealed compressor}} Hermetically sealed, open, or semi-hermetic
- Thermodynamics of gas compression
- Isentropic compressor
- Minimizing work required by a compressor
- Comparing reversible to irreversible compressors
- Effect of cooling during the compression process
- Compressors in ideal thermodynamic cycles
- Temperature
- Staged compression
- Drive motors
- Lubrication
- Applications
- See also
- References
thumb|A small stationary high pressure breathing air compressor for filling scuba cylinders thumb|A powerful compressor for street work. Model XASS from Atlas Copco circa 1985. thumb|right|Natural gas compressor at a gas well thumb|right|High pressure reciprocating compressor from Belliss and Morcom, used in the bottling industry A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. An air compressor is a specific type of gas compressor.
Many compressors can be staged, that is, the gas is compressed several times in steps or stages, to increase discharge pressure. Often, the second stage is physically smaller than the primary stage, to accommodate the already compressed gas without reducing its pressure. Each stage further compresses the gas and increases its pressure and also temperature (if inter cooling between stages is not used).