Within the oil and gas industry, there are many essential aspects that require proper compressor equipment. Two basic types of compressors are employed in the natural gas industry, and these are the rotary and reciprocating compressors.
Compressors
Rotary Compressors
The term Rotary Compressors can actually be used to describe several different types of compressor mechanisms. The one thing they have in common is that the air inside is being compressed through the rotating action of some internal component.
a) Screw Type Compressors
b) Scroll Type Compressors
c) Vane Type Compressors
d) Lobe Type Compressors
Reciprocating Compressors
Reciprocating compressors are positive displacement machines in which the compressing and displacing element is a piston having a reciprocating motion within a cylinder. They are broadly two types: