hydraulic air compressor
hydraulic air compressor
[hī′drȯ·lik ′er kəm‚pres·ər] (mechanical engineering)
A device in which water falling down a pipe entrains air which is released at the bottom under compression to do useful work.
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Hydraulic Air Compressor (HAC) demonstrator was unveiled at the facility with much fanfare on June 21.
"The
hydraulic air compressor works in a completely different way," said Dean Millar, a Laurentian University, mine engineering professor and the project lead through the Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO).
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