Differences Between a Pump and a Compressor

Risansi Industries Pvt Ltd
3 min readJul 7, 2022

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Moving hydraulic liquid through a framework requires either a pump or compressor. Both accomplish this objective, however through various working techniques. Pumps can move fluids or gases. Compressors commonly just move gas because of its inherent capacity to be compressed. Pumps and compressors both have incredibly high-pressure rises.

Both pumps and compressors have great applications in industry, mining, construction, metallurgy, process industry (brewers (CO2), refineries), refrigeration (refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.)

Types of Pumps

There are mainly two types of pumps:

Centrifugal Pumps

Positive Displacement Pumps

Types of Compressors

A compressor is also known as a mechanical device. The compressor increases the pressure energy of a gas by reducing its volume. In simple it is a storage type device.

There are different types of compressors:

Positive displacement and

Dynamic compressor

Key Differences between Pump and Compressor:

PUMP

➠ A Pump is a machine that transfers fluid from one place to another required place.

➠ The pump is used to transport fluids like water, oil etc.

➠ The pump does not have any storage capacity to store upcoming fluids.

➠ The pump is mostly used to increase the energy of an incompressible fluid.

➠ The pump price is cheaper.

➠ Pumps are used at several domestic places like in the washing machine, lifting water from the ground to tank, it is also used in several systems like Aeroplane, ship and so on.

➠ While transferring or sending or moving the fluid the volume remains constant from the inlet or outlet.

COMPRESSOR

➠ A compressor is used for the storage of squeezed gas and supply whenever needed.

➠The compressor only transport gases.

➠ However, the compressor has storage capacity and then it delivers through pipe wherever required.

➠ The compressor is mostly used to increase the energy of the compressible fluid.

➠ A compressor price is more expensive.

➠ The compressor is also used in domestic places like filling the air into a cycle or motorcycle, car, and so on.

➠ In a compressor the inlet and outlet are different which means the volume does not remain constant.

Machines like pumps and compressors are pressure driven. These machines are utilized to upgrade the energies of fluid. The fundamental reason behind the utilization of these machines is in the industrial sector and domestic sector.

From this, it would be quite clear about the major differences between a pump and a compressor. If you are one of those looking for a quality pump for their application use in your industry, we suggest you install Risansi pumps.

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Risansi Industries Pvt Ltd
Risansi Industries Pvt Ltd

Written by Risansi Industries Pvt Ltd

Risansi Industries is a leading manufacturer and global marketer of Progressive Cavity Pumps, Rota Pumps, Online Blinds/Actuators for various industries.

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