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Boiler-house renovation at Unilever saves 25% energy with VLT® AQUA Drive
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In 2009, Unilever’s research on the efficiency of the existing boiler-house showed that a 25% reduction in
CO2 emissions could be achieved by taking an innovative approach to renovate the boiler-house.
A VLT AQUA Drive with the VLT Extended Cascade Controller MCO 101 option helped them achieve their goal.
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130 VLT® drives equipped with ProfiNet prove to be a success in Chinese tobacco industry
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The electronic control system for the prime line at the Ulanhot cigarette factory includes over 130 VLT drives equipped with ProfiNet cards.
The stability and reliability of the ProfiNet system is a significant improved compared to the old situation.
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Energy efficient protein production at Arla Food Ingredients Group
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More than 600 VLT® frequency drives save an average of 10% energy. If you are using 50 million kWhrs each year, that is a lot of money.
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VLT® control pays back in two years controlling ammonium screw compressor
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Monthly savings were USD 1,155, ensuring recovery of investment on the Danfoss frequency converter within two years, when Bimbo applied a VLT® frequency converter control to an ammonium cooling compressor. Now their successful experience is becoming standard in other Bimbo plants.
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Powder mixing with wireless PROFINET – productivity has tripled
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The Dutch powder mix provider Huijbregts Groep used the features of 96 VLT® AutomationDrives for a redesigned and highly automated mixing facility in Holland. This tripled the productivity, improved the quality 200 % and made work easier and safer for the employees.
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VLT® drives improve accuracy and speed up bottle labellers
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Hymech Engineers Ltd., Andheri, Mumbai, India has since 1975 provided equipment for the beverage industry. The company has since the year 2000 used Danfoss VLT® frequency converters in their machines – like in bottle fillers, hot melt machines, labelers etc.
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VLT® drives save space and money in primary tobacco equipment
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ITM Poland is a part of Dutch company ITM specialised in the production of a wide range of equipment for the tobacco industry. Using VLT drives already since 1994.
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Reduced power consumption and improvedproductivity at Indian sugar mill
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The installation of a 750 kW VLT® AutomationDrive on the main mill has reduced power consumption significantly and improved productivity for JHV Sugars Limited at Padrauna, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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VLT® AutomationDrive control of Kamenitza’s compressors drives down costs
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Energy cost reductions were realised at Kamenitza following the installation and commissioning of VLT® AutomationDrive for the cascade control of a group of compressors. The subsequent short return
on investment time has delighted Kamenitza staff.
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VLT® drives reduce energy bills and enhance product life in Indian cold store
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A cold store at Kartarpur, in the state of Punjab, India,. uses only VLT® drives and soft starters for refrigeration. 22 VLT® drives and 5 MCD soft starters are installed and consequently the electricity bill has been halved.
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VLT® controlled NH3 compressor reduces energy consumption by 13%
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Applying a frequency converter to a NH3 compressor reduced the energy consumption by 13% at one of the world´s leading palm oil refineries in Malaysia. This equals an energy saving of over 240,000 kWh and the return on investment was approximately 20 months.
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VLT® Advanced Harmonic Filters more effective than 12-pulse converters
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A practical example of the selection of Advanced Harmonic Filter AHF010 filters for drives installed at the sugar plant Pandurang Sahakari Kaarkhaana Limited (PSSKL), in Shirpur, District Solapur, Maharashtra, India.
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VLT® drive increases sugarproduction by 16 tons per day
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Applying a Danfoss VLT to the centrifuge enabled Usina Coruripe to increase production by one cycle every hour. Each centrifuge produces 875 kg of sugar per cycle. As a result, sugar production was increased by 16 tons per day.
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A sparkling tune up solution
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Installing solutions with decentralized frequency converters represents a key alternative for traditional control techniques, based on power panels.
Martini & Rossi transformed their sparkling-wine production line, with the help of Danfoss.
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Running a motor at constant breakdown torque
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The Danfoss VLT® AutomationDrive provides micrometre accuracy for grinding process control at Markus Kaffee, a coffee-roasting company in Bremen, Germany.
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IP66 VLT® drives operate flawlesly in Indian dairy
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The Indian dairy VRS Limited in Malanpur Gwalior) use hydrochloric acid, caustic and corrosive cleaning agents in its CIP cleaning of the equipment. IP66 enclosed VLT® drives mounted near the motors showed easy to install and operate.
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New dairy conveying and packaging system installed in only five days
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A major challenge for Friesland Foods capacity expansion project was how to maintain delivery of fresh dairy produce to their customers while the old conveying and packaging equipment was being replaced by a new fully automatic system.
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Danfoss VLT® drives optimise the production of biscuits in the Netherlands
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Royal Verkade, Zaandam now being part of United Biscuits, always goes for efficient and cost saving solutions in their roduction. “If instruments or machines break down or for some other reason need to be replaced, we do not automatically replace like for like”, says Ben Baars, Electronics Manager at Verkade.
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Excellent VLT® control of Australian wine centrifuge
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A VLT® solution eliminated the need for special heat resistant motors and a 1000 liters water tank - and significantly improved productivity and profit operating wine centrifuges at the company Southcorp, Karadoc in Australia.
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VLT® drives and Pilz control motive power systems in baking and fermentation lines
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Everyone knows and enjoys pretzels. One of the best-known manufacturers of this traditional baked snack is Huober Brezel GmbH & Co. It relies on
cutting-edge motive power engineering.
For example, Danfoss frequency convertors are used together with Pilz safety engineering to control motive power systems in baking and fermentation lines.
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Danfoss Decentral Drives eliminate downtime at Rosslyn’s Brewery in South Africa
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“We have found the FCD 300 series to be the most reliable decentral drive on the market”, says Mr. Martin Schurmann, the technical director at KHS in Johannesburg.
VLT® 5000 series drives control the machinery for the labellers. For the conveyors, the VLT® drives were installed directly on the conveyors in order to save the space for new electrical panels and to minimise time and the costs that would have been involved with installing of long motor cables.
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Leading Indian Sugar companies choose Danfoss Drives
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Upper Ganges Sugar and Industries Ltd. (UGSIL), and Ramgarh Chini Mills (RCM), have selected Danfoss VLT® frequency converters for their bagasse-based cogeneration plant. Danfoss VLT® frequency converters are already working in two other Indian projects at Uttam Sugars and Prabhulingeshwar Sugars respectively.
In these power plants, VLT® drives operate fans, boiler feed water pumps and increase manufacturer’s ROI
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VLT® and Bauer Geared Motors make cheese tasty
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The Alpma fully automatized plant for production of semisolid cut cheese was designed for an unusually high capacity of 1,800,000 litres of milk per day, made on two parallel production lines.
Alpma relies on the efficient Danfoss geared motors and frequency converters in the VLT® 5000 range. Large order for South America
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VLT® AutomationDrive optimises germination vessel at SAB Maltings in South Africa
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Benefits from a VLT® solution for Caledon Malting: substantially reduced maintenance costs as the wear on gear pins is reduced, operational reliability is higher, risk of gearbox failure is eliminated due to the even load on all six motors and gear boxes, and automatic monitoring function detect any cable and motor failure. This is fully controlled from the SCADA screens in the control room without disrupting the process.
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VLT® frequency drives for high quality pet food
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The reliability of Danfoss drives plays an important role for Nestlé Purina.
“We have only one production line.” says Maarten Wolde.
Nestlé has used Danfoss Drives for many years. Danfoss drives have a very long service life. The old Danfoss Drives installed many years ago were still going strong. Only because of the need for Profibus communication, Purina was forced to replace these old drives for newer Danfoss models.
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VLT® is now Van Uitert’s standard solution.
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Danfoss quality made the Dutch company Van Uitert win a project for the Dutch dairy company Friesche Vlag.
The project was up against a very tight time schedule. Additionally, Van Uitert had to get all drives up and running in a very short time.
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VLT® SyncPos control hots up choc-ice production
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Synchronism between the cutter and the wrapper/transfer plate is critical in a choc-ice production line. Initially it was achieved by optical system and PLC. But mist formation reduced the reliability of the system.
By the SyncPos feature, the optical system and the PLC could be superseded. +/- position increment pushbuttons were added to enable fine tuning by the operators.
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