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Las Vegas Desert Heat No Match for MagnaDrive Technology
Inside the city's resorts, huge water chillers work 24 hours a day, seven days a week to keep visitors cool with air conditioning. Energy Managers say up to 40 percent of energy bills go toward keeping cold air pumping through the buildings. The Energy Manager for one of
After the unit was in, they realized that MagnaDrive's technology was a royal flush when it came to savings in other ways as well. MagnaDrive engineers custom tuned a constant speed coupling to offer the performance needed while also significantly reducing the energy needed to run the system. The resort was able to put a big dent in those hefty electricity costs, which can total millions of dollars during the summer months.
"My initial motive was to cut down some of [the shock created by vibration in the system] and save a little electricity, now I'm saving a lot of electricity and [eliminating] the shock as well, so it was an experiment that turned out extraordinarily well," he said.
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Before their first MagnaDrive coupling installation, the pumps at the hotel used 17-kilowatt hours of electricity. Electricity usage dropped below 14-kilowatt hours on the first pump installed with a MagnaDrive coupling. Not only was it an immediate 20 percent drop in electricity, but adding MagnaDrive technology to the pump will reduce future maintenance costs as well. In addition, MagnaDrive's "green" technology achieves all those benefits while being environmentally friendly.
"That's pretty phenomenal," said the resort's Energy Manager.
Because of this success, the hotel plans to put several MagnaDrive couplings on all six of its giant chiller systems. MagnaDrive CEO
"We are very excited about the continued success of our magnetic technology and products in the
How the Technology Works
MagnaDrive products eliminate vibration and misalignment complications between motors and loads because they are a disconnected technology. In a typical application, a MagnaDrive Coupling is installed between a motor and the load the motor is driving, in this case a pump. The coupling consists of two independent components that have no physical contact.
One component, a precision rotor assembly containing high energy, rare-earth magnets, is mounted on the load shaft. The second component, a copper conductor assembly, is installed on the motor shaft. Relative motion between the magnets and the copper creates a magnetic field that transmits torque through the air space between the components. The magnets allow the motor side to rotate the load side without actually touching it, making alignment problems and maintenance because of misalignment a thing of the past.
About MagnaDrive Corporation
MagnaDrive Corporation was founded in 1999 and is based out of
For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.magnadrive.com or contact
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