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Gas compressors are mainly used in chemical and petrochemical industries; air compressors are widely used in every kind of industries for different purposes. Air compressor applications may be broadly classified as follows: (1) providing power, as in tools or other machines and in control systems for HVAC and for industrial equipment; (2) handling process gas, usually in refineries and chemical plants, and transporting and distributing gas in pipelines; and (3) providing air for combustion as in gas turbine cycles. An additional use is for cleaning or drying material more efficiently than thermal energy.
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Petrecca, G. (2014). Facilities: Gas Compressors. In: Energy Conversion and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06560-1_11
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