Grundfos launches quality label for efficient pump motors
01/02/2011 Grundfos Pumps Ltd
One of the world's top pump manufacturers has raised the bar on energy-efficiency requirements with motors that exceed the new international efficiency (IE) motor standards. The Grundfos Blueflux® label ensures that a motor runs at the highest possible efficiency standard, IE3, under the EU Directive specifying ecodesign requirements for electric motors.Grundfos Blueflux® technology represents the best from Grundfos within energy efficient motors and variable frequency drives (MG motors, MGE motors and CUE drives). Grundfos Blueflux® harnesses the full energy-saving potential of electrical motors and the pumps they power.
The first Grundfos Blueflux® solutions are on the market today, and others will be launched periodically this year. The complete Grundfos Blueflux® range will be available to use with our market-leading pumps by January 2012.
Strict, energy-efficiency requirements will begin in 2011 under the EU's Directive on Eco-Design of Energy Using Products (EuP)1. Grundfos Blueflux® solutions already comply with most of the IE3 demands for the third EuP phase in 2017.
The biggest energy wasters
Consider this: pumps consume about 10% of the world's electrical power2. Most pumps are needlessly inefficient, however. This is largely due to the motors driving the pumps. Most run continuously at their top speed regardless of actual requirements.
Grundfos high efficiency motors and variable frequency drives have been designed to reduce energy consumption. A Grundfos Blueflux® motor combined with a variable speed drive can decrease a pump's energy consumption by up to 60 per cent, depending on the pump's load profile.
Four decades of motor developments
Though associated mostly with pumps, Grundfos has manufactured electrical motors since the beginning of the 1970s. These include a range of energy-efficient standard motors and motors with integrated frequency converters (MGE) up to 22 kW that meet the current EU energy efficiency classification's highest class, IE3. We also supply IE3 motors up to 75 kW.
References
1 European framework Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC), 21 October 2009.
2 COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Accompanying document to the Commission Regulation implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to eco-design requirements for electric motors FULL IMPACT ASSESSMENT {C(2009) 5675} {SEC(2009) 1014}, page:25.
For further information, please contact:
Peter Ørsted
Grundfos Management A/S
Poul Due Jensens Vej 7
DK - 8850 Bjerringbro
Denmark
+45 8750 4614
poersted@grundfos.com
www.grundfos.com/energy
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