Recycler goes greener

Regular maintenance of the motor driving the compounder was a major task, so the site engineers decided to explore possibilities for switching to a brushless AC motor, turning to Newton Tesla (Electric Drives) for a solution.

Newton Tesla engineers developed a proposal to provide the necessary low speed torque operating characteristic, while the robust reliability reduced the regular maintenance requirement.

"We included a Mitsubishi inverter in the design, as this would contribute to a substantial reduction in power consumption and would further enhance the environmental credentials of the recycling plant,” says George Newton, MD of the drives engineering company. "And of course there were significantly reduced energy bills as well as the maintenance savings.”