Reciprocating Compressor s and Its types
This type of compressor uses a piston-cylinder arrangement to compress the air. Whenever something moves back and forth it’s considered as occupancy Reciprocating Compressor.
Similarly, during this type piston pull away and forth inside the cylinder and compress the air.
Engineering – The reciprocating compressor takes inside the successive amount of volume of air from the valve and confined it in the closed surface at that point piston moves downward with the closure of the valve. Then there’s compression of air by reducing its volume. Now the piston moves upward and compresses the air then displace the compressed gas through the valve. And then again intake occurs and the cycle repeats itself.
This type of reciprocating compressor also called positive displacement machines. They are available in both as lubricated and oil-free.
The reciprocating compressor is single acting when the compressing is accomplished using just one side of the piston and double-acting when both the perimeters of the piston used.
Applications
The reciprocating compressor generally saw where there’s a requirement of air mass and low flow(or discontinuous flow up to 30 bars). Mostly where the air is employed for hand-tools, cleaning dust, small paint jobs, …