Metallurgy
Steel, aluminium and non-ferrous plant: high ambient temperature, heavy shock loading, and electrical duty that no distribution equipment survives.
- Product families
- 4
- Applications
- 4
- Models linked
- 29
- Projects
- 1
What this sector demands of the machine
Written to what an engineer in this industry actually has to solve, not to a list of sector benefits.
Furnace duty is short-circuit duty
A furnace transformer experiences a through-fault every time electrodes strike. Bracing, not rating, is the design driver.
Shock and reversing loads
Rolling mills reverse under load. Shaft and coupling design has to survive the torque reversal, not just the mean torque.
High ambient temperature
Machines near the line run at ambient temperatures well above 40 °C, which derates a standard rating.
Power factor and harmonics
Arc furnaces and rectifiers distort the plant network. Synchronous drives can help correct it.
Product families used in metallurgy
Synchronous Motors
Constant-speed drives with controllable reactive power
Special Transformers
Transformers designed against a duty, not a standard rating
General-Purpose Motors
Low- and medium-voltage asynchronous motors for continuous duty
Voltage Stabilizers
Holding supply voltage where the network will not