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ELECTRIC MOTORS

ABB motor sets world record at Indian steel plant

by achieving 99.13% energy effi ciency

Automation giant, ABB, has broken of energy and $5.9-mn in electricity
its own world record for energy effi - costs over a 25-year lifespan – equiva-
ciency in large synchronous electric lent to four days of peak output from
motors with a new motor designed in the world’s largest offshore wind farm.
line with its Top Industrial Effi ciency It will also support avoiding 45,000
(TIE) initiative which delivers equip- tonnes of CO emissions, comparable
2
ment that exceed standard performance to removing 10,000 cars from the road
benchmarks. for a year. The scope for savings and
avoided emissions is even greater in
ABB’s TIE motors and generators other countries where electricity is
are engineered to surpass current effi - between the energy a motor draws and more expensive. The motor will drive
ciency benchmarks, helping customers the amount it turns into motion. The an air separation unit (ASU) that will
reduce electricity usage, operating theoretical limit is 100%, but getting liquify atmospheric air so that the oxy-
costs, and total cost of ownership (TCO) closer to this target becomes increa- gen and nitrogen can be separated out
without compromising performance or singly challenging in terms of motor to provide pure gases for the steelmak-
adding complexity. design and manufacture. This is why ing process.
the previous world record stood for
The motor, destined for a steel eight years. ABB’s TIE initiative addresses a
plant in India, has achieved an effi - major gap in energy effi ciency stan-
ciency rating of 99.13% during testing, Opting for a TIE-optimised motor, dards for large motors (3 MW+), which,
a substantial improvement over ABB’s rather than the standard design with despite being a small part of the global
previous world record of 99.05% set in 98.64% effi ciency level, will enable motor base, consume about 25% of all
2017. The effi ciency rating is the ratio the customer to save around 61-GWh motion-related energy.

PROJECT UPDATE
IOC’s green hydrogen plant at Panipat to be

operational by 2027

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) sition is expected to
has said that it has finalised the significantly cut down
Levelised Cost of Hydrogen (LCOH) carbon emissions, help-
for setting up a 10,000-tpa (tonnes ing IOC move towards
per annum) green hydrogen gene- a more sustainable and
ration unit at its Panipat Refinery & environment-friendly
Petrochemical Complex. model.

“This project marks IOC’s entry The company also
into the green hydrogen sector and will added that the initiative is
be the largest green hydrogen initiative in line with the National
in India to date,” the company said in a Green Hydrogen Mission
press release. green hydrogen produced at this and forms a critical part of IOC’s larger
facility will replace the fossil-fuel- decarbonisation strategy. The project
The plant is expected to be com- based hydrogen currently used in also supports the company’s net zero
missioned by December 2027. The the refinery’s operations. This tran- ambitions.

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