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Air compressor. Credit: VHT Engineering
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A device used to compress air for mechanical or electrical power production, and in air conditioners, heat pumps, and refrigerators to pressurize the refrigerant thus enabling it to flow through the system. Compressors are closely related to pumps: both increase the pressure on a fluid and both can transport the fluid through a pipe. As gases are compressible, the compressor also reduces the volume of a gas, whereas the main result of a pump raising the pressure of a liquid is to allow the liquid to be transported elsewhere. Compressing a gas naturally increases its temperature.
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• COOLING, REFRIGERATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING
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