ABB UK supplied a variable speed drive that helps Arsenal Football Club play in all weathers. The drive controls the airflow to an under-pitch aeration system that promotes healthy turf and helps drain the soil. The pitch at the club’s new Emirates Stadium is a hi-tech design with special and unique features […]
Replacing a 400kW DC motor with an ABB 4 pole squirrel cage motor and AC variable-speed drive has saved a plastic recycling company £50k p.a. Regain Polymers of Castleford, West Yorkshire, is one of the largest plastic recycling companies in the UK, recycling around 50,000 tonnes a year. The company turns waste […]
For clinker quality, clinker cooling is best carried out by progressively controlling the cooling process. The most common way to control the cooling fans and the exhaust fan’s speed, and hence ensure efficient and precise cooling, is to use AC drives such as the ACS880 Series from ABB UK. Hot clinker supplied by […]
ABB Drives has produced a white paper on developing safer machines with drive based functional safety. The paper is divided into three sections covering: Functional Safety: Safer machines with drive-based functional safety; Laws, Standards and a road-map to drive-based functional safety, and ABB’s drive-based functional safety solutions. Compared to the traditional safety […]
ACS55 is a simple component drive from ABB UK and designed for a wide range of basic commercial and domestic applications. They are available for single phase 120 or 240 V input and three phase 240 V output and power ratings from 0.18kW to 2.2kW. Built in EMC filters ensure a high […]