This section of the Benshaw website features helpful insights from the motor control experts at Benshaw.
Read on to learn how our applied motor controls can be used to improve performance and reliability.
Ball mills are used in many industries to grind coarse material into a fine powder. A ball mill typically consists of a horizontal cylinder partly filled with steel balls that rotates on its axis, imparting a tumbling and cascading action to the balls. In cement manufacturing, clinker is fed into the mill and is crushed by the impact of the balls and ground by attrition between the balls.
Motor control in pumping applications is often mission critical. These pumping applications span a wide range of industries, from agriculture (crop irrigation) to wastewater treatment, oil and gas production and many others where fluid transfer is required. Given the critical nature of these applications, process disruptions due to pump system failure can quickly become a major issue.
Benshaw 2.0 is a wide ranging initiative to identify and address major issues that can help our customers in their efforts to thrive and succeed in an ever more challenging global marketplace.
We get lots of questions every year about applying motor controls. Most of these questions are related to selecting the right starting method, based on the customer’s particular application. To address these questions, Benshaw has released a new three-part series of white papers that provides valuable technical information intended to help customers “Get their motor running.” These white papers explore the dynamics between motor design, starting current requirements and the various starting methods used to maximize performance and improve energy efficiency in fixed speed applications.
