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News Release from: ABB Automation Tech (Drives and Motors) | Subject: ATEX certified motors
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 16 July 2003
Distillery improves safety with motor
upgrade
The Macallan, maker of Scotland's premier single malt, has fitted 39 ATEX certified motors at its Easter Elchies distillery at Craigellachie on Speyside.
The Macallan, maker of Scotland's premier single malt, has fitted 39 ATEX certified motors from ABB at its Easter Elchies distillery at Craigellachie on Speyside This follows a risk assessment and rezoning exercise to meet the new hazardous area regulations, which came into force on 1st July
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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All the motors comply with the requirements for Zone 1, improving safety in areas made potentially hazardous by alcohol levels from the distilling process.
The motors, ranging in size from 0.55 to 5.5kW, are used in a number of different applications such as pumping cooling water, charging and discharging stills, agitating tanks and transferring distillate and spirit.
They were supplied by ABB's Drives Alliance and Motor Service partner EDC (Scotland), Ayrshire.
The rezoning of the distillery provided The Macallan with an opportunity to replace all its existing motors, improving safety as well as the energy efficiency of the process.
Comments John Sutherland, The Macallan's company engineer: "Our previous motors dated from the 1970s.
They were inefficient, with many of them having been rewound, and could not comply with the latest regulations.
Apart from ABB's good reputation in industry, we had attended one of their seminars on the ATEX regulations and the package on offer was really what we needed".
In addition to the GBP 35,500 spent on motors, The Macallan also invested a further GBP 5000 to fit variable speed drives from ABB on some applications, for which VSD certified motors for hazardous areas were selected.
"Drives have proved very useful in some areas since they can be programmed to minimise hydraulic shock when charging the stills to a high degree of accuracy and allows us to maximise the properties of heat exchangers", Sutherland says.
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