Energy efficient
Using kinetic energy to protect PLCs (07/03/2012)
PULS UK is urging companies to make use of kinetic energy produced by AC electric motors to safeguard PLC control circuits in the event of a mains failure using its QTD20 power supplies.
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Online and mobile application energy-saving calculators (10/01/2012)
A new tool has been introduced by Rockwell Automation to allow manufacturers to use mobile devices or computers to calculate the potential savings from equipment such as variable frequency drives, power pumps and fans.
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Energy control pack helps visualise energy savings (19/09/2011)
Mitsubishi Electric has introduced the Energy Control Pack (ECP) built on its e-F@ctory concept.
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Energy efficiency – thinking small 30/08/2011
Even equipment with a low output and correspondingly low power dissipation can make a significant contribution towards energy saving. CEE reports on a new range of power supplies that have been designed to be optimally energy efficient.
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Driving forward with energy saving compressed air system for printing machines 18/08/2011
Hobbs the Printers, one of the UK’s largest and oldest established specialist print firms, has succeeded in reducing its energy costs through the installation of Elmo Rietschle compressors and vacuum pumps fitted with variable-speed AC drives from Vacon.
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Intelligently making energy savings with drive optimisation software 09/08/2011
The new version 3.0 of the Lenze Drive Solutions Designer (DSD) is able to analyse motion profiles from simple point-to-point to complex cam profiles or dynamic reversing.
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Inverter technology controls airflow and saves energy 05/07/2011
When a major animal feed manufacturer, employing 200 people across the UK and producing over 34,000 tonnes of product every year, explored energy saving opportunities, it contacted Rewinds & J. Windsor, an official drives partner for Control Techniques inverters.
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Steam recovery scheme cuts boiler costs 08/03/2011
British Bakels has reduced the combined cost of energy and water to its boiler by around 6.5%, since employing a flash steam recovery system designed and supplied by Spirax Sarco.
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Huge energy savings realised on Coca-Cola bottling line 04/03/2011
While retrofitting a transportation system, Vienna-based Coca-Cola Hellenic Austria used a mechatronic drive which has allowed for a 75% energy saving, which is equivalent to an annual reduction of 41 tons of CO2.
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