Pre-selection for positive-displacement process gas compressors

Machine Families

Six positive-displacement families, one page each: the envelope, where the family is used, and where it stops. Numbers follow the site's knowledge base.

1–900 bar(g)

Zero-leakage by construction — the gas never touches anything that moves.

≤ 400 bar(g)

High pressure at real flow — the process-gas workhorse.

≤ 45 bar(g)

Large flow, dirty gas, no oil in the compression space.

≤ 50 bar(g)

The oil is the coolant — which is why temperature barely binds it.

≤ 13 bar(a)

Isothermal compression inside a ring of liquid — the wet-and-corrosive answer.

Δp ≤ 2 bar

Moves a lot of gas a little distance.