ABB Launches his new solution to reduce the broadcasts of CO2 in the industrial state

Reduce the broadcasts and save costs in the industry improving the performance is the premise with which ABB has launched his range of converters of variable frequency ACS880. The base installed at present of frequency converters of ABB, company leader in technology electrotécnica and of industrial automation, has allowed in 2011 the saving of 310 million megavatios hour (MWh) and has avoided the broadcast to the atmosphere of more than 260 million tonnes of CO₂. The frequency converters are systems that use to control the speed of an engine of alternating current in industrial applications like pumps or fans, between many others. His use avoids that these applications work to an upper speed to the necessary, adjusting them to the real conditions of operation. In this way, the industries can diminish the energetic consumption until in 60%.

The converters ACS880 are compatible with practically any type of process, system of automation, user and requirement of business, and have been designed to work with any application with motors, in any sector. They can adapt to the specific needs of industries like the oil and of the gas, mining, metallurgical, chemical, cementera, nautics and the head offices of generation of power, the manipulation of materials, pasta and paper, and wood. They have designed to control a wide range of applications like cranes, extruders, cabrestantes, bobinadoras, stravel transportadoras, mixers, compressesors, pumps and fans.

The contribution of the frequency converters to the sustainable industrial development is of maximum importance, since —to way of example— his utilisation can allow to Europe a saving of until 202.000 million kilowatts/hour, what equivale to a decrease of 10.000 million annual euros in the costs of exploitation every year.