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n: a special type of centrifugal compressor with a barrel-shaped housing.

n: a compressor in which the flow of gas to be compressed is moved away from the centre rapidly, usually by a series of blades or turbines. It is a continuous-flow compressor with a low pressure ratio and is used to transmit gas through a pipeline. Gas passing through the compressor contacts a rotating impeller, from which it is discharged into a diffuser, where its velocity is slowed and its kinetic energy changed to static pressure. Centrifugal compressors are nonpositive-displacement machines, often arranged in series on a line to achieve multistage compression.

n: a device that raises the pressure of a compressible fluid such as air or gas. Compressors create a pressure differential to move or compress a vapour or a gas, consuming power in the process. They may be positive-displacement compressors or nonpositive-displacement compressors. See centrifugal compressor;jet compressor;reciprocating compressor.

a type of pump that increases the pressure of gas. Commonly used as a production rate increaser by increasing the gas pressure delivered from low pressure gas wells to enter the pipe line. The intake into the compressor lowers the wellhead pressure creati