What are the different types of positive displacement blowers?
At its most basic level a blower is a machine that draws in air at an inlet and pushes air out as a steady stream at the outlet. There are largely two categories of blowers: impeller based and positive displacement.
Impeller based blowers have fins that radiate outwards from a rotating central axis. Positive displacement blowers use a mechanism of filling and emptying chambers at the inlet and discharge side, respectively, to create air flow.
The fundamental difference between the two is that impeller based blowers have output flow that varies with pressure whereas positive displacement blowers have a more constant output flow regardless of change in pressure.
The impeller is generally called rotors or lobes.
There is no compressed air during the running of the positive displacement rotary lobe blowers.
