Most, if not all, of what we use and have around us has been made using an alternating current induction motor.
This barbaric name is just the name given to an electric motoring unit that works like this: inside an electric motor, attracting and repelling forces (like magnets) create rotational motion. The process converts electrical energy into mechanical power, to allow the rotor to turn the machine it is attached to.
These motors are everywhere, in most businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, offices and even in our houses. Not to mention factories.
Despite being used everywhere and by everyone, in direct or indirect ways, motors have a big flaw - they waste a lot of energy! Half of the world’s energy production is consumed by motors!
During the conversion from electrical energy to mechanical movement, losses occur in the system. These losses are transformed into heat, noise an vibrations, and they happen because the motor is sourcing more energy than it needs to do its job.
For instance, when engineers create a machine, they design it with an over-sized motor so as it can handle the worst case scenario, just in case: an escalator going upwards will be conceived so that it can be functional even if two heavy men stand on each of its steps.
Although this scenario almost never happens in real life, the motor powering the escalator is designed to produce enough energy to cater for this eventuality ALL THE TIME. It does not know how to adapt to the load on the escalator, hence sourcing the adequate amount of energy to make the escalator operate. It will therefore always use more energy than it needs, which is how energy is wasted.
Enigin PLC have a clever solution to this energy wasting problem. They have the iMEC - Intelligent Motor Energy Controllers. The iMEC gives a motor an ‘intelligence’, enabling it to analyse the amount of energy that is needed for the machine to perform, adapting to the variations in requirements. Enigin PLC’s iMEC is the most logical way to combat energy inefficiency due to over-working motors, and to save businesses a lot of money at the same time, through a reduction of energy bills (at least 40% savings in costs).
Consuming less energy also means reducing carbon emissions and increasing the life span of a business’ appliances, through eradicating heat, noise and vibrations associated to excess ‘lost’ energy.
Enigin provide businesses with an offer they can’t refuse, as energy bills seriously dent most businesses’ profitability. Implementing Enigin PLC’s high-tech devices is the evident choice for anyone who thinks hard-earned money should not be wasted on ridiculously high energy bills.
My Daughter, Vicky, is in the final year of here university course, Digital Art and Technology, and as part of her dissertation on the “Wants and Needs of Mobile Phones” she is dealing with the history of mobile communication.
