• A rotary-screw compressor is a type of gas compressor, such as an air compressor, that uses a rotary-type positive-displacement mechanism. These compressors...
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    reciprocating compressor Multi-stage reciprocating compressor Single stage rotary-screw compressor Two-stage rotary screw compressor Rotary vane pump Scroll...
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    classifications of rotary screw compressors vary based on stages, cooling methods, and drive types among others. Rotary screw compressors are commercially...
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  • is a major American manufacturer of portable and stationary rotary screw air compressors designed for commercial and industrial use. Founded in 1965 in...
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  • Kaeser Compressors, Inc. manufactures compressed air and vacuum products, including rotary screw compressors, oil-less reciprocating compressors, rotary lobe...
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    recently developed conical screw compressor is a type of rotary-screw compressor using a different topology from the typical dual-screw type. In effect it can...
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    most hermetic motor compressors. Reciprocating compressors are piston-style, positive displacement compressors. Rotary screw compressors are also positive...
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    development of screw-type superchargers reached a milestone when Swedish engineer Alf Lysholm patented a design for a rotary-screw compressor with five female...
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    typically very even and doesn't pulsate much. Rotary-screw compressor, a gas compressor similar to a screw pump. Stewart, Bobby Alton; Terry A. Howell (2003)...
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  • Variable-frequency drive (VFD) Rotary screw compressor Air compressor "Variable Speed Air Compressor". Quincy Compressor. Retrieved 2019-08-23. "Air System...
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  • positive-displacement pump. Rotary-screw compressor – Gas compressor using a rotary positive-displacement mechanism Rotary vane pump – Positive-displacement...
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    plastics, which employ a screw of decreasing pitch to compress and melt the material. It is also used in a rotary-screw air compressor. On a much larger scale...
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  • use fluorocarbons but some use compressed air.) Rotary-screw compressor – Gas compressor using a rotary positive-displacement mechanism Air-line fitting –...
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  • introduced the Rotair, Britain's first single stage oil flooded rotary screw compressor. 1961 Trade names included Holbit rock drill steels, Dustuctor...
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    design a rotary compressor as a supercharger for NSU's motorcycle engines. Wankel conceived the design of a triangular rotor in the compressor. With the...
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    the threads as the screws rotate. The meshing rotors force the gas through the compressor, and the gas exits at the end of the screws. The working area...
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  • to become Chief Engineer. He is noted for the invention of the rotary screw compressor, which he developed in the 1930s while working on a series of unsuccessful...
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    Pump (section Screw pump)
    pumps (also known as eccentric disc pumps or hollow rotary disc pumps), similar to scroll compressors, these have an eccentric cylindrical rotor encased...
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    maximum, when the clutch was engaged and the compressor was running Modern versions use rotary screw compressors and have more sophisticated variable governors...
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  • used in various types of air compressors and turbines including reciprocating, centrifugal, and rotary screw compressors where high pressures and temperatures...
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  • Actuator (section Rotary)
    an ordinary (rotary) electric motor into a linear movement. The mechanism may be a toothed belt or a screw (either a ball or a lead screw or planetary...
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    Because a Roots-type blower pumps air in discrete pulses (unlike a screw compressor), pulsation noise and turbulence may be transmitted downstream. If...
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  • a wide range of air and gas compressors. This encompasses the reciprocating and rotary (screw and centrifugal) compressors for industrial segments and...
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    conversion of rotary motion into linear motion. Conversion is commonly made via a few simple types of mechanism: Screw: leadscrew, screw jack, ball screw and roller...
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    has a microprocessor control, modular braking system array with rotary-screw compressor, and the AC/DC converters. "Newag modernises a whole series of...
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    of different types of compressors. Most common today are the hermetic scroll, semi-hermetic screw, or centrifugal compressors. The condensing side of...
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    Icemaker (section Compressor)
    four main types: screw compressor, rolling piston compressor, reciprocating compressor, and rotary compressor. Screw compressors can yield the largest...
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    addition to coil tattoo machines, there are also rotary tattoo machines, which are operated with regulated rotary motors and are powered by a wired external...
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    In aeronautics, an aircraft propeller, also called an airscrew, converts rotary motion from an engine or other power source into a swirling slipstream which...
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    section of the fuselage drove a rotary compressor through a 1:4 gearbox (1,000 rpm on the Clerget turned the compressor at 4,000 rpm), which drew air in...
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