Product category:
Industrial Drives/Controls
News Release from: ABB Automation Tech (Drives and Motors) | Subject: ACS 600 MultiDrive Modules
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 21 February 2000
Drive modules offer system integrators
flexibility
The first multiple drive system on a common DC bus is now available as Modules from ABB, for use by system integrators, panelbuilders and OEMs.
The first multiple drive system on a common DC bus is now available as Modules from ABB, for use by system integrators, panelbuilders and OEMs The ACS 600 MultiDrive Modules, ranging from 5kVA to 1385kVA, in voltages from 380V to 690V, are backed by the most comprehensive documentation and design package available to system integrators, making the Modules quick and easy to integrate into third party panels and cabinets
The Modules capitalise on over five years of development and installation experience that ABB has accrued with Modules used extensively in its standard ACS 600 AC drive range and rated from 5kVA to 610kVA.
With ACS 600 MultiDrive Modules, users can specify as many inverter sections as they wish and sections can be added to the DC bus after installation for plant expansion, a less costly method than adding an entire drive.
By using ABB's proprietary Direct Torque Control (DTC) technology, the ACS 600 Modules have accurate torque and speed control that aims to eliminate the need for feedback devices on the applications served by many DC bus drive systems, such as rollers and conveyors in the paper and metals industries.
The "Customer Support Package" will, it is claimed, save system integrators considerable time and money by speeding up and simplifying their design procedures.
By providing Autocad drawings, for example, users can simply copy and paste the chosen elements straight into their own design without the need for redrawing the elements.
The package shows how to configure, engineer and assemble the Modules into cabinets.
It includes: ACS 600 Engineering CD-Rom: containing all Module documentation, apparatus and technical tables, single-line and circuit diagrams, Autocad dimension drawings, mounting examples, assembly pictures and training material for the system integrators own personnel.
ACS 600 Modules Product Catalogue and Installation Manual: including technical guides on EMC, cabling and bearing currents together with material suitable for system integrators to use as part of their own documentation to the end-user DriveSize Dimensioning Program: for optimising the motors, inverters and supply units Pricing/ Configuration Tool: for easy selection and ordering of MultiDrive Modules and accessories Local technical support channels and technical expertise from the factory together with global after-sales back-up in more than 140 countries.
DC bus drives use common components to control and supply power to the inverter sections of AC drives, reducing overall costs.
A single rectifier can supply several inverter sections from a common DC bus, rather than using one rectifier per inverter as is the case with standalone units.
This can help save space within cabinets and panels.
The benefits of Modules also include reduced cabling costs as there is a single point of entry for several drives; lower material costs by using common braking resources for several drives; and less energy costs, due to regenerative braking and motor-to-motor braking.
ABB's ACS 600 Modules family are compatible with all major fieldbus protocols.
Various components are available including line fuses, fuse switches, contactors, circuit breakers, rectifiers, DC reactors, RFI-filters, autotransformers and cooling fans.
Mechanical frames are available to facilitate cabinet assembly.
"With Modules, end-users get the dual benefit of the very deep know-how of the system integrator in their particular application and the expertise of ABB's engineered products and leading-edge technology," says Tero Heikkila, Product Sales Manager for the Modules business.
"Furthermore, we are supporting the Module business by creating some of the most comprehensive documentation available.
This easy-to-use documentation is backed by high production volumes and high product reliability from our factory.".
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