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In this section we
intend to offer some solutions that make economic sense. The Energetic
Drives team of engineers will design systems to optimize your machine
power consumption. At a time when “Cap and Trade” is looming on the not
too distant horizon. We intend to help you create power control systems
for your manufacturing processes that will minimize your energy
consumption.
Utilizing
the very latest industrial controls components the Energetic Drives
team is able to analyze your current machines and present an optimized
design to increase your production goals while efficiently reducing
your power consumption resulting in a two-fold reduction in production
cost.
Example:
Your crane employs a DC drive to move through the various axis' of
motion. The crane is in position to pick up a load for transporting. To
make this simple move, the crane has to traverses through a profile,
during any deceleration you burn up excess energy through a bank of
resistors, dissipating the excess power in the form of heat.  Consider
refurbishing your DC drives with a common bus AC Variable Frequency
Drive architecture. As one axis decelerates, or is overhauled, the
excess energy is placed onto a common DC bus connecting the multiple AC
drives. This
energy can be used by the other axis to motor to the next position. The
excess energy produced during deceleration can be regenerated to the
input supply for application into a net metering plan with your
utility. Additionally, any energy created by an axis can be used to
feed a larger drive which is motoring, satisfying the partial power
requirements. This scheme can save thousands of dollars per
year
when implemented by our team.
The
common bus configuration can be applied to many different designs. To
the left you can see the common bus applied to an electronic
line-shafted printing press. This design can be used on
converting machines applications in which our Chief Engineer,
Semion Stolyar, PhD and Electrical Engineer Ian K. Griffiths, BSEE have
decades of experience designing optimum efficiency control sets for
tensioning applications. When maintaining tension on a line, there is
always a motor being overhauled to keep tension, this is energy that
can be harnessed in a common bus design, once again minimizing the
energy used for your current process. Couple that together with the
SCADA, HMI and PLC controls integrated into one of our solutions and
your system is optimized for control and energy efficiency.
 
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A Common
Bus configuration is provided below for consideration.
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