Pneumatic furnace damper drives may be more common, but electro-hydraulic actuators provide several advantages to the more traditional control scheme. One fossil-fired plant in Taiwan achieved more ...

The inducer motor is a fairly recent piece of equipment on gas furnaces, so it isn’t surprising many homeowners don’t know why it’s there or what it does. Because it’s integrated into the furnace’s ...

A major refurbishment of a blast furnace in South Wales has given Tata Steel better control and improved efficiency following the installation of ABB variable-speed drives (VSDs). Solutions supplied ...

Speed, torque, and horsepower are three inter-related parameters in motor control. The speed of a motor, measured in revolutions per minute (rpm), defines a motor's ability to spin at a rate per unit ...

Every day engineers design products that employ single-phase induction motors. Speed control of single-phase induction motors is desirable in most motor control applications since it not only provides ...