Cut energy costs by up to 50%

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Regenerative solutions
Customer introduction

The working Principle

When an application requires operation in a quadrant where
torque is in the opposite direction of motor rotation, the AC
drive must remove energy from the mechanical system through
the motor leads.
This situation occurs whenever the drive is attempting to brake
a rotating motor, for example as when decelerating a load with
big inertia.
Regenerative solution is a method of removing that energy from
the drive DC bus capacitors and placing it back on the net.

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When regeneration appear

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New proposal by using Regenerative solutions

Traditional solution by using Braking units.
Sine Wave
input current
Distorted
Input Current

kWh

Waste of regenerative
energy in braking resistors

Regenerative unit
Braking
Unit

Regenerated
Energy

Heat generation.
Regenerated braking energy is
used by illumination, ventilation
or other consumers
Lower energy consumption
Reduced energy cost

Cut energy costs by up to 50%

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It makes good business sense to use regenerative technologies to reduce your

machines energy consumption:
Now it is easier than ever to take advantage, because we can supply regenerator units that are
perfectly tuned to our inverters.
Whats more, we also supply harmonic and EMI filters to ensure that your regenerated AC energy is not
only green, its also ultra clean as a perfect sine wave.
Lower energy costs.
Now you can re-use the energy generated by your
motors instead of burning it.
Flexible configuration.
Wide range of technical solutions adapts to single or
multi-drive application.
Clean Energy.
Reduce Harmonic distortion up to 5% THDi.
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Minimise running costs ...

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Regenerative solutions can reduce electrical energy consumption by up to 50%. So depending on

your applications loads and cycle frequencies your customers can save a substantial amount of
money.
A crane, for example, with a braking power of 16 kW and a
frequency of 18 cycles per day will save enough money to pay for
our regenerative solutions after just one year.
Ideal for: all types of cranes & Hoisting applications, paper
unwinders , discontinuous centrifuges.

Application Example
Aluminum Production.
17 cranes planed to change from dynamic braking to regenerative
drives for energy saving reasons

RESULT after 3 month:

Consumed Energy: 1.597 kWh
Regenerated Energy: 1.042 kWh

Energy Cost for crane reduce to 35% of before retrofit

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... maximise your options

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We offer different configurations to ensure the best fitting regenerative solution for your application.
Depending on the solution used, the regenerated energy can be used by other drives in the system
or it can be sent directly back to the power network to be used by other components sharing same
power supply circuit.
DC power supply

Regenerative Braking unit

Regenerative
solutions
architectures

AFE

Inverter
*

Inverter

Inverter

Regen
unit

Previous-/ New situation - DC power supply

Previous Braking resistor:
It was used resistors to burn the energy generated by the
motor when working in regenerative mode.
The energy was burnt by the braking resistor, so it was wasted.

New situation DC power supply :

By using regenerative DC power supply, the energy is send back
to be used for others components in the net.

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Regenerative solutions DC power supply

Customers benefits:
To send back energy generated by the motor to the net saving
energy
By using DC power supply, customer can realise 1:n drives
system
Braking energy of a drive can be consumed by other drives
Low energy consumption due to common DC bus systems
Improve power factor approx close to 1
Harmonic distortion is reduced below 5% THDi

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Previous-/ new situation - Regenerative Braking unit

Previous Braking resistor:
It was used resistors to burn the energy generated by the
motor when working in regenerative mode.
The energy was burnt by the braking resistor, so it was not
used anymore.

New situation Regenerative Braking unit :

By using regenerative Braking unit, the energy is send back to
be used for others components in the net.

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Regenerative solutions Regenerative Braking unit

Customers benefits:
To send back energy generated by the motor saving cost.
More power braking than with a resistor.
System is 1 to 1.
Regenerative unit can be smaller than Traditional braking system.
Harmonic distortion is reduced up to 10% THDi.

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Harmonics - What are harmonics?

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The Harmonics are a distortion in the input current waveform generated by a non linear load like power
electronics, drives, soft starters, etc.
In the case of drives, its due to nature of a diode bridge rectifier used at drives.
They are measured as THDv% (Total Harmonic Distortion Voltage) or THDi% (Total Harmonic Distortion
Current). Standard typical Values with AC Drives are THDv 5% and THDi 40%.
The target is to reduce THDi level to around 5% to 10%.
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t

Cos

Linear load (i.e. Resistors)

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Non linear load

AC Drives

Harmonics How Harmonics are measured?:

A harmonic is a sinusoidal component with a
frequency being an integer multiple of the
fundamental frequency of the periodic signal to
investigate.

When for example we are investigating a supply

current with a frequency of 50 Hz the
fundamental or first harmonic has also a
frequency of 50 Hz. The second harmonic has a
frequency of 2*50 Hz = 100 Hz. The third
harmonic has a frequency of 3*50 Hz = 150 Hz
etc.

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Harmonics side effects:

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Traditional system with Harmonics problems

Solutions by using harmonics filters

G
Generator

M
Transformer

Standard
Low
Harmonic Inverter Drive
Filter

Error
Sine Wave
Heavily
Distorted
Input current
input
Current

Motor

Trouble in IT systems
Reliably
running
Acoustic
Noise
systems
from lamps
Trouble in
electric systems

Clean regenerated energy - always

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The inverter is generating high harmonics distortion, which can cause malfunctions in other
electronics components, and had a penalty cost at electricity transfer tariff.
Thanks to our advanced harmonic filters, the energy you regenerate with our solutions is clean and
will not damage the electrical components in which it is used. There are some typical applications
were Harmonics are more critical like for example electrical medical systems and laboratory
applications which should be power supply with clean energy and its not allowed that Harmonic
distortion is above 5%.

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