The pusher centrifuge has been applied to a wide variety of industries. Although typically pushers are used in the inorganic industry, it has also been used extensively in chemical industries like organic intermediates, plastics, and food processing . Notable pusher applications include inorganic like ammonium sulfate, soda ash, potash, sodium bicarbonate, sulfates and sulfides, borax, borates, chlorates and chromates.

Many organic intermediates have been successfully separated in the pusher, including paraxylene, adipic acid, oxalic acid, caprolactam, nitrocellulose, carboxymethylcellulose, etc. In food processing, the pusher has been employed for the production of monosodium glutamate, salt, lysine and saccharin. Plastics applications include PVC, polyethylene and polypropylene, and a number of resins classified under various trade names. In order to understand the performance of the pusher centrifuge in various applications.