System optimisation
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Introduction
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Optimising pump and fan applications
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Control technologies
Electric motors are used to provide motive power for a vast range of end uses - with crushing, grinding, mixing, fans, pumps, material conveying, air compressors and refrigeration compressors together accounting for 81 per cent of industrial motive power. International surveys estimate that a whole-of-system approach to optimising industrial motor driven applications, when coupled with best practice motor management, can deliver savings of between 30 and 60 per cent.
A whole-of-system approach ensures that machines operate only when necessary and efficiently deliver what is required. You can, for example, turn equipment off when it is not needed or substitute inefficient control of flow from pumps and fans by throttling or damping with more efficient methods such as impellor trimming or inlet guide vane flow control.
It is important that you continuously review your current process requirements, especially since often the exact requirements were not known during plant design and also your plant or operation may have changed since installation. As process optimisation can potentially have a significant impact on production processes, it must be undertaken with care and full knowledge. If handled correctly, it will deliver big rewards.
Motor Solutions Online promotes a whole-of-system approach to the challenge of identifying and capturing energy savings in you motor-driven applications.
This information on motor system optimisation will help you understand, identify and achieve your organisation's full savings potential in: