1st Quarter 2016Electrical switching & drive systems & components
The ten millionth ABB low voltage drive rolled off the production line at ABB’s Beijing factory in November. The ten millionth drive is going to Wuhan Guide Electric Co in China, a system integrator manufacturing electric control systems for port cranes.
Drive number 10 million is an ACS880 industrial drive, part of ABB’s all-compatible drives portfolio. Compatible with virtually all types of processes, motors, automation systems and users, they are designed to tackle any motor-driven application in any industry, whatever the power range. The innovation behind all-compatibility is the new drive architecture, which simplifies operation, optimises energy efficiency and helps maximise process output. The ACS880 series consists of single drives, multidrives and drive modules.
ABB developed its first AC drive in the 1970s and today offers the most advanced range of variable speed drives in the world. They cover a wide power and voltage range, including voltages up to 13,8 kV and power up to 100 MW.
Over the 40 years that ABB has been delivering millions of drives to all industries, a huge amount of energy has been saved.
The installed base of ABB drives saved 445 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2014 alone, equivalent to the consumption per year of more than 110 million households in the EU. If that 445 TWh would have been generated by fossil fuel-powered electricity plants, ABB drives reduced CO2 emissions in 2014 by about 370 million tons, corresponding to the yearly emissions of more than 90 million cars.
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