Centrifugal OmniScriptum Centrifugal Compressor

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Centrifugal compressors, sometimes referred to as radial compressors, are a special class of radial-flow work-absorbing turbomachinery that include pumps, fans, blowers and compressors. The earliest forms of these dynamic-turbo machines were pumps, fans and blowers. What differentiates these early turbo machines from compressors is that the working fluid can be considered incompressible, thus permitting accurate analysis through Bernoulli's equation. In contrast, modern centrifugal compressors are higher in speed and analysis must deal with compressible flow.