Conveyor belts for bottles are often used in the beverage industry. To operate them in a particularly energy efficient manner, Nord Drivesystems has developed a special drive solution: In the patented DuoDrive geared motor concept, an unventilated IE5+ synchronous motor was integrated into a single-stage helical gear unit.
The IE5+ motor operates highly efficiently in itself and exceeds the highest defined efficiency class (IE5). The integration into the gear unit results in additional optimisations by eliminating interfaces, some wear-prone parts and also installation space.
In a trade fair model the drive specialist pits the DuoDrive against a customary IE3 asynchronous motor with bevel gear unit. “The geared motor was able to achieve an increase in efficiency of up to 50 percent”, reports Jörg Niermann, Head of Marketing.
Source: Nord Drivesystems
