The Problem At the Lafarge Quarry the motor was started using a Soft-starter, which was drawing up to 5 times full load current. Obviously this is a huge waste of energy but as is the way with such high consumption machinery, it was deemed necessary, even best practice. However, running the process in this way […]
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The Problem Midland Quarry in Leicester knew they needed a motor that could offer reliability and efficiency to power their mile long conveyor. Sentridge’s Solution Sentridge Control recommended ABB industrial drives to control the speed of the conveyor at Midland Quarry. One conveyor features two 200 kW drives; three conveyors use a single 200 kW […]
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The Problem An aggregates business, based in Stoke, who supply a wide range of materials to both commercial and private customers decided to sign up for the Climate Change Agreement (CCA) as part of an energy efficiency initiative. One of their production processes relied on an old wound rotor motor to drive a fan and […]
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