Drives@Work: 10 Benefits Adjustable-Speed AC Drives Provide to Industrial Users

摘要

Adjustable speed drives are used in any application in which there is mechanical equipment powered by motors. The drives provide extremely precise electrical motor control, so that motor speeds can be ramped up and down, and maintained at speeds required; doing so utilizes only the energy required, rather than having a motor mn at constant (fixed) speed and utilizing an excess of energy, since motors consume a majority of the energy produced, the control of motors, based on demands of loads, increases in importance as energy supplies become ever more strained. Additionally, end users of motors can realize 25% to 70% energy savings via use of motor controllers.