Energy Savings - Fans & Pumps

Why Energy Savings?

Not only does the cost of energy affect profitability but it affects companies’ bottom lines differently. Energy efficient companies have a cost advantage when energy prices increase. Some companies have cut 20% or more of the energy required for a unit of product. This reduction in energy intensity becomes a major cost advantage.

In the US industrial sector, 70% of all electricity consumption involves motor driven systems. Over 40% goes to pumps, fans, and compressed air systems. Control Techniques products can help save up to 60% in these applications and up to 30% on many of the remaining applications. An energy kWh meter is built into every Control Techniques drive to help monitor energy usage and document the savings.

A number of utilities or states offer rebates to encourage energy efficiency. Check your utility’s web site for details. Those offering rebates will typically offer $40 or more per horsepower – or $4,000 for a 100hp drive.

The traditional reasons still exist to use variable speed drives and motion control. These include process and quality improvements, reductions in raw materials usage and scrap produced, and reductions in maintenance of machinery due to soft starting, operational cycles, and fewer mechanical components. These improvements may be less easily quantifiable than energy but will typically provide significant savings.

Include these additional benefits, as appropriate, in an evaluation with specifics where possible. You may have already identified applications needing improvement. Control Techniques will work with you to develop solutions that save energy and improve productivity. You can then evaluate how this project’s return on investment compares with other priorities. Most drives opportunities will have a simple payback within 18 months from energy savings alone.

Variable frequency drives are an excellent choice for adjustable-speed drive users because they allow you to fine-tune processes while reducing costs for energy and equipment maintenance.

For more information see our article (Active Front End Variable Frequency Drives) on Pumps & Systems pump-zone.com

FREE ENERGY SAVING ESTIMATOR SOFTWARE

Control Techniques variable speed drives can help cut your energy consumption and in turn reduce your costs. Our CTSave software provides carbon dioxide savings calculations and additional company incentive functions. FREE CTSave Energy Savings Estimator software

Our variable frequency drives (electronic controllers) adjust the speed of electric motors by modulating the power being delivered. Control Techniques variable frequency drives provide continuous control, matching motor speed to the specific demands of the work being performed.

Looking for effective cost controls?

Our variable speed drives can help cut your energy consumption and in turn reduce your costs. Are you considering using variable speed drives to generate energy savings on fan, pump or compressor applications?

Implementing our VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) solutions can cut energy costs significantly—saving up to 60 percent on many common applications, often enabling a return on investment of only a few months.

Our Energy Assessment report will show you how much you can save by controlling energy costs using our drives.

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Examples of some of our energy saving fan & pump solutions include:

Turf & Irrigation

Energy Savings

Natural Resources and Energy

Water & Waste Water

Alcoa - Keeping Up the Pressure at German Aluminium Plant

Three of three massive aluminium extrusion presses, at Alcoa in Hannover, now depend on variable speed drives from Control Techniques and, as well as dramatically increasing production time availability, increasing throughput by 10% and decreasing maintenance costs, the installations have cut energy consumption by a huge 40%, saving thousands of kilowatt hours of energy every year!

For further information you can download our Applied case study here

Henry Denny - Drive Provides Cool Energy Saving Solution at Henry Denny

The installation of a large freestanding variable speed AC drive from Control Techniques has produced improved temperature control in a food company’s chilled rooms – and is well on the way to delivering a massive saving of around $33,180 in their annual electricity bill – a cut of 50% of the plant’s total power usage!