Our most frequently asked questions involve the meanings of terms used commonly in the compressed air industry. This prompted us to compile a list of common terms to allow our customers access to what might be an otherwise inaccessible knowledge base. Feel free to look around and be sure to bookmark the page. You will likely use this one over and over again.
- Absolute Pressure
- Absolute Temperature
- ACFM
- After-Coolers
- Air-cooled compressors
- Altitude
- Atmosphere
- Atmospheric Pressure
- Auto Drains
- Barometric Pressure
- Base plate
- Boolean logic
- Booster Compressors
- Brake Horsepower
- Capacity
- Capacity (Actual)
- Check Valve
- Clearance
- Clearance pocket
- Coalescing Filter
- Compressibility
- Compression, adiabatic
- Compression Efficiency
- Compression, isothermal
- Compression, polytropic
- Compression Ratio
- Compressors
- Constant Speed Control
- Critical pressure
- Critical temperature
- Density
- Desiccant Air Dryers
- Dewpoint
- Diaphragm
- Diaphragm routing
- Diffuser
- Discharge Pressure
- Discharge Temperature
- Displacement
- Double Acting Compressors
- Double Stage Compressors
- Dry-Bulb Temperature
- Dryer
- Dry Gas
- Dynamic
- Efficiency
- Efficiency, compression
- Efficiency, isothermal
- Efficiency, mechanical
- Efficiency, polytropic
- Efficiency, volumetric
- Enthalpy
- Entropy
- Filters
- Flange connection
- Free air
- Gas
- Gauge Pressure
- Head, adiabatic
- Head, polytropic
- Horsepower, brake
- Horsepower, theoretical, or ideal
- Humidity, relative
- Humidity, specific
- Ideal Compression Ratio
- Ideal Gas
- Impeller
- Inlet Pressure
- Inlet Temperature
- Inter-Coolers
- Intercooling
- Intercooling degree of
- Intercooling, perfect
- Isentropic compression
- Liquid piston
- Load factor
- Logic Controls
- Mechanical Efficiency
- Mechanical Ratio
- Moisture Separators
- Multi-casing Compressor
- Multi-Stage Compressors or Compound Compressors
- Normal Air
- Oil/Water Separator
- Particulate Filter
- Perfect Intercooling
- Performance Curve
- Piston Displacement
- Polytropic Head
- Positive Displacement
- Pressure Discharge
- Pressure, intake
- Pressure (PSI)
- Pressure rise
- Pressure static
- Receivers
- Reciprocating Compressors
- Refrigerated Air Dryer
- Rotary Compressors
- Rotary, liquid-piston compressors
- Rotary Screw
- Rotary Screw Compressors
- Rotary, Sliding Vane
- Rotary, two-impeller positive displacement
- Rotor
- Saturated Air-Vapour Mixture
- Saturation
- Saturation (degree of)
- Saturation Pressure
- Saturation Temperature
- SCFM
- Seals
- Single-Acting Compressors
- Single-Stage Compressors
- Slip
- Specific Gravity
- Specific Heat
- Specific Humidity
- Specific Volume
- Standard Air
- Standard Pressure and Temperature (SPT)
- State
- Suction Pressure
- Super-Compressibility
- Temperature rise ratio
- Torque
- Turbine
- Two-Stage Compressors
- Vacuum Pumps
- Vapour Filters
- Vapour Pressure
- Volumetric Efficiency
- Water-Cooled Compressors
- Wet-Bulb Temperature
- Wet Gas
- Work