Sentence examples for compressed-air from high-quality English sources.

• Compressed air is a good vehicle for conveying a paint spray.

• Storelectric uses compressed air to store energy from renewable sources in underground salt caverns.

• The submarine was doomed when the fire spread, fuelled by compressed air from a damaged pipe, Russia's RIA news agency reported.

• Given such a cavern, compressed-air storage is a bit like classical pumped storage, except with a gas, rather than a liquid.

• Compressed air, air reduced in volume and held under pressure.

• Compressed air enters the cylinder, expands, and forces the piston to move.

• The brakes, when not in use, were kept off the wheels by compressed air pressure.

• In underwater operations, compressed air prevents water from entering the air motor.

Use compressed-air in a sentence.

• The compressed air that is breathed is equal in pressure to that of the surrounding water.

• In this project he pioneered the use of compressed air in conjunction with the circular shield.

• The advent of steam, compressed air, and electricity brought relief from this hard, dangerous work.

• …introduction of compressed air and hydraulic tools also contributed to the lightening of drudgery.

• The 20th century witnessed a large increase in the use of compressed air and of compressed-air devices.

• Piston drills were superseded by hammer drills run by compressed air, and their performance improved with better design and the availability of quality steel.

• It plans to spend that money on a project in Australia, where the company is using an abandoned Angas Zinc mine as the holding chamber for the compressed air.

• Various technologies, from giant lead-acid batteries to pumping compressed air into caverns and letting it out to drive turbines, are being developed (see Technology Quarterly December 6th 2014).

compressed-air sentence examples

• His use of a compressed-air caisson to sink the pier foundations for the bridge helped gain acceptance of compressed-air techniques in underwater and underground construction.

• Lawyers have argued in filings that DuPont also maintained close ties to the plant’s new operators even after the sale, and leased certain services to Denka as it continued to manufacture neoprene, including water systems, compressed air and nitrogen.

• A typical modern air lock consists of a cylinder of steel plate with airtight doors located at both ends, one opening from the outside into the lock, the other from the lock into the compressed-air chamber, together with valves to admit or to exhaust compressed air.

• Since that isn't an option for most people, Daniel recommended that owners first try blowing out the area with compressed air, a pressure washer, or even a vacuum, spraying it with a paint-safe citrus cleaner, letting it soak, pressure washing it out, and finishing with blowing it out again with compressed air — or a Master Blaster, if you've got one.