Industrial spring applications are found every day but are rarely seen, being hidden away and therefore many aspects of the design/material selection are overlooked.
Reliability is key to ensuring the success of ‘jackup’ operations in the oil & gas industry. With this in mind, leading provider of offshore drilling units Paragon Offshore turned to WEG to replace the electric motors driving its B391 jackup rig in the North Sea.
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Need to drive a motor of 0.75KW to 1MW well in excess of 10,000rpm? As well as compiling to EU regulation 428/2009, the decision on which inverter drive to use for your high speed application needs to be considered and taken.
Motor starting can induce shock loads into the driven equipment and harmonic disturbances into the main supply.