Rotary Screw

Gardner Denver offers two types of products using screw technology. There are rotary screw pumps, which are dry running screw vacuum pumps which excel when it comes to small carbon footprint and low life cycle costs. They are mainly used in customized systems for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and in a modified industrial version for food packaging, industrial parts cleaning and in the manufacturing of solar panels.

In many applications, compressed air has become active and in processes where air comes into contact with the process it serves, the quality of that air becomes critical.Our oil free screw compressors, or rotary screw air compressors, constitute the second type of products featuring the screw technology.

Rotary screw technology uses a displacement principle where the screw compression element main parts comprise male and female rotors that move towards each other while the volume between them and the housing decreases. The pressure ratio of a screw is dependent on the length and profile of the screw and of the form of the discharge port. The screw element is not equipped with any valves and there are no mechanical forces to create any imbalance. It can therefore work at high shaft speed and combine a large flow rate with small exterior dimensions.