Energy Management and Sustainability
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Quick-win savings: Potential pitfalls

The desire of compressed air users to reduce running costs has never been greater. As a result, there is a risk that some companies may overlook the benefits of using genuine OEM-supplied parts and maintenance services, according to Sean Fairest, business line manager for Atlas Copco’s Compressor Technique Service. Here, he explores the issues and potential pitfalls of turning to alternative service providers for perceived ‘quick-win’ savings.

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Quick response

Finning UK has secured a contract to provide a fleet of Quick Response Modules (QRMs) for deployment to any of the UK’s nuclear stations in the event of an earthquake, tsunami or other site emergency.

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Cave train role

ABB Drives Alliance member Sentridge Control has supplied four ABB ACS 800 industrial drives, each of 30kW, and four ABB high-efficiency 37kW motors to power the train that takes visitors to the Al Hoota cave, a two-million year-old natural cave system, deep in the desert of Oman.

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Energy savings of up to 50%

The new GA 7-15 kW VSD+ compressor range from Atlas Copco is said to give users energy savings of up to 50% compared to traditional fixed speed compressors.

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Latest drives boost process efficiency

Are you getting the best from your drives? Replacing them with more modern products that offer better efficiency and more capable software could transform your process and save even more energy, as Neil Ritchie, local business unit manager, drives & controls, ABB explains explains

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Latest servo drives

Mitsubishi Electric believes that its MR-J4 series of servo amplifiers represents a significant advance in servo system technology that will provide benefits both to machine builders and end users.

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Bearings boost

SKF Energy Efficient (E2) deep groove ball bearings are helping electric motor rebuilders and rewinders to offer an energy efficient rebuild.

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