Drivers that convert electrical energy into useful mechanical work and provide power for rotating equipment like pumps, compressors, and conveyor drives are:

a. Reactors
b. Solids handling equipment
c. Motors
d. Furnaces


a. Incorrect. Reactors are vessels in which a controlled chemical reaction is initiated and takes place either continuously or as a batch operation.
b. Incorrect. Solids handling equipment is equipment that is used to process and transfer solid materials from one location to another in a process facility; it may also provide storage for those materials.
c. Correct. Motors are drivers that convert electrical energy into useful mechanical work and provide power for rotating equipment like pumps, compressors, and conveyor drives.
d. Incorrect. A furnace is a piece of equipment that burns fuel in order to generate heat that can be transferred to process fluids flowing through tubes; a furnace may also be referred to as a process heater.

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