Familiarise with High Pressure Terminology

Compressor Dictionary - B

Booster (POSEIDON System)

High pressure booster systems inject compressed air from storage cylinders directly into the last stage of the compressor and hence increase the compressor's capacity by a wide margin. The other compressor stages operate normally. For maximum efficiency, the pressure in the storage cylinder must exceed that pressure of the preceding stages.

Contrasted with two-phase filling, whereby the » diving cylinders are filled from a storage cylinder and then topped up by a high pressure compressor, the Poseidon booster has comparatively short filling cycles.
The storage cylinders are filled whenever no diving cylinders are connected.

During times of peak demand, additional storage cylinders will increase the compressor system's capacity. A larger compressor block is not required.

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