How it Works: Centrifugal Compressors - Amazing Technology Biggest Compressors

How it Works: Centrifugal Compressors - Amazing Technology Biggest Compressors

Most people give little thought to the important role of mechanical air compressors for manufacturing, residential, industrial, and agricultural applications in a modern society. For thousands of years, the human lungs functioned as a form of air compressors, which people used to stoke fires, but the carbon dioxide in human breath made it difficult to actually sustain fires. Plus, the practice of metallurgy — the melting down of metal such as copper and gold — required higher temperatures.