The Bank
Often compressors are connected to a bank of large, high-pressure cylinders to store compressed gas, for use at peak times. This allows a cheap and low-powered compressor, which is relatively slow at pumping gas, to fill the bank automatically during idle periods, storing a large volume of pressurized air so that a batch of cylinders can be filled quickly one after the other at peak demand without being delayed by the slow-running compressor. In surface-supplied diving, high-pressure cylinder banks may be used as an emergency backup in case of primary compressor failure, or they may be used as the primary source of breathing gas.
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