date:Aug 08, 2013
rgy use of the baler. Investigations showed that the measured power consumption was 11.1 kW and the baler ran for 6,336 hours. At an energy cost of 8p/kWhr, this gave a total running cost of the baler of 5,626.
IDS installed a 30 kW ABB general purpose drive, ACS550, as well a pressure transducer. Andy Crocker of IDS says: The pressure transducer gives a 4-20 mA output that is proportional to the pressure. On the drive, we have the set point at just below the valve opening pressure. When the hy