Although many businesses, especially factories and production environments use air compressors on a regular basis, few are actually aware of what an air compressor is and why having one is so important.
Put simply, an air compressor is a device which is used to increase the amount of air which is contained in a particular area. In packing the air, the pressure of that air is increased and by increasing the air pressure, there are a number of benefits.
The force of the pressurised air for example can then be used in industrial, manufacturing and commercial areas where the speed and pressure of the air could have a number of uses.
There are a number of available air compressors, such as centrifugal compressors, rotary compressors and reciprocating compressors and these models are readily available to the companies who would be able to make use of them from specialists such as Ace Compressors.
The three forms of compressor then fall into two types, dynamic or positive displacement and the type of compressor used and needed will be determined by their mode of operation. Positive air compressors work as they fill and then empty their air chamber, whilst dynamic compressors have a rotating device which accelerates and then decelerates the air inside it. This is done by using speed and velocity to increase the pressure of the air.
From the three forms of compressor, centrifugal compressors are dynamic air compressors, whilst rotary screw compressors and reciprocating compressors tend to use positive displacement to work.
