COMPRESSORS CLASIFICATION

GENERAL PRINCIPLES TYPE CHARACTERISTICS

The reciprocating compressor is a positive Reciprocating Is generally arranged with the cylinder vertical in the basic single
displacement, intermittentflow machine that Compressors stage arrangement, number of cylinders is normally limited to two.
operates at a fixed volume in its basic
configuration. One method of varying volumes
is by speed modulation.
Rotary compressors as a group comprise the Rotary Compressors Are frequently arranged as single units with a driver. Occasionally
balance of the positive displacement machines. the compressors with or without an intercooler.
This group of compressors has several features
in common despite differences in construction.
Centrifugal compressors are second only to Centrifugal Compressor As has been discussed in the previous paragraphs, the single-stage
reciprocating compressors in numbers of compressor can be arranged in the overhung style.
machines in service.
The gas enters the axial compressor through a Axial Compressor Axial compressors are high-speed, large-volume compressors but
guide vane row, then is acted on by the rotor, are smaller and somewhat more efficient than comparable
and moves on through the first stator row. centrifugal compressors.

Página 1|1