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Low voltage motors for hazardous areas
| ABB LV Motors
The large number of hazardous area motors in use
– they represent the majority of motors in the chemical, oil
and gas industries – means that global energy consumption
and CO
2
emissions could be reduced significantly if all
hazardous area motors were high efficiency types.
These clear benefits have prompted regulators in some
countries – like Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Korea and
the USA – to include hazardous area motors in their local
MEPS schemes. In other markets, however, MEPS schemes
do not yet cover hazardous area motors. Given the
accelerating pace of climate change, it is inevitable that all
markets will eventually have efficiency requirements for all
types of motor, including hazardous area products.
By supplying hazardous area motors that meet the
requirements of both local MEPS (where applicable) and the
IEC’s high and premium efficiency classes, ABB is making
its own contribution to efforts to reduce global energy
consumption and carbon emissions.
ABB motors meet – and in many cases
comfortably exceed – the requirements
for the IE2 and IE3 efficiency classes
ABB supplies IE2 (high
efficiency) motors as standard,
and many are available direct
from stock; it also supplies
an extensive range of IE3
(premium efficiency) motors.