[Free Download] Whitepaper: How synchronous reluctance motors are creating new benchmarks for efficiency

The challenges facing businesses across Australia include high operating costs, energy scarcity, regulatory compliance and a growing demand from stakeholders to operate sustainably.

Addressing these challenges requires energy efficient and environmentally friendly solutions, and for a surprisingly large number of organisations, an effective response already lies hidden away in their backrooms and maintenance spaces or humming along in factories and warehouses.

Motors form the essential machinery that keeps modern life operating. The process of turning electrical power into mechanical movement is one that powers a large part of our day-to-day lives.

But none of that comes without cost. These motors can be energy hungry, expensive to operate, draw on scarce natural resources to build and emit substantial quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. According to the International Energy Agency, electric motors and the systems they drive account for more than 40 per cent of global electricity consumption.

Sustainable solutions are crucial to addressing these issues. More efficient motors have world-changing potential – and they also create immense opportunity for the businesses who rely on them. Upgrading to more sustainable and more efficient motors helps businesses deal with high costs for energy as well as labour, regulatory demands, global competition and increased scrutiny of the environmental impact of their operations.

As a leading electrical solutions provider, IPD understands the possibilities offered by a world that runs on better motors. Working with its partners to bring a motor and drive solution for the water, manufacturing, and mining industries that is effective and energy efficient, IPD supplies businesses around the country with products developed and manufactured by ABB, a global technology leader in electrification and automation with a history of more than 140 years.

As a provider of technology from global vendor ABB, IPD helps Australian businesses achieve the return on investment and energy savings necessary to operate efficiently and sustainably. IPD aims to build a future where sustainable electrical infrastructure creates a better life for all, and in this paper, we look at how advanced motor technology is helping them do that.

This paper considers:

• Why Australia should be doing better: Local efficiency standards are allowing many operators to leave easy gains on the table.
• The difference synchronous reluctance motors make: Why this model of motor can make such a big difference to energy cost and efficiency.
• Meeting standards that are yet to exist: How ABB’s motors are pushing to the very edge of motor efficiency benchmarks.
• Matching drive and motor: How installing a comprehensive motor and drive package can maximise cost savings.
• Cutting carbon costs: How ABB’s EcoSolutions portfolio ensures businesses are able to pursue the most sustainable operation possible.
• Case studies: The diverse range of Australian businesses who have already seen the benefits from better motors.