Posted to News on 11th Dec 2015, 12:35
Top 5 tips for increasing energy efficiency in pneumatic systems
Festo has published a free guide, Energy efficiency@Festo, that provides top tips to help machine designers and plant managers to improve efficiency in pneumatic processes by up to 60 per cent. Energy efficiency@Festo can be downloaded for free from www.festo.co.uk/energyefficiencyatfesto (no registration required).
The 60-page detailed guide provides information about efficient technologies that will ensure machines and systems consume fewer resources and less energy. Reducing CO2 emissions as well as operating costs leads to an increase in the sustainability of production processes and therefore a company's overall productivity.
Steve Sands, product manager at Festo, says: "Environmental consciousness, corporate responsibility and the balance sheet are all key drivers for increasing energy efficiency. In this guide we focus on advising plant managers on how they can implement measures to reduce energy wastage, with in-depth statistics and details about compressed air technology."
The top five tips to saving the most energy are:
- Using energy-saving circuits - for example, Festo's OVEM closed-loop vacuum generators monitor vacuum levels and only expend air when required, giving typical savings of 60 per cent
- Correctly sizing drives and tubing - reducing to the next smaller piston diameter can decrease energy consumption by approximately 35 per cent
- Reducing switching line tube lengths - savings of up to 25 per cent can be achieved
- Isolating circuits in standby or shutdown modes - eliminating the flow of air in systems at a standstill can provide savings of 20 per cent
- Reducing weight and friction of moving elements has a major affect, particularly on multi-axis systems where initial over-sizing becomes compounded - energy savings of up to 18 per cent can be realised
Follow the link to download a copy of the Energy efficiency@Festo guidelines.
