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Danfoss VLT® and VACON®
drives are optimised for high
performance in long conveyor
applications
clear benefits to customers, allowing mines to
save on CAPEX and OPEX with robust, reliable
drives.
For decades, both Danfoss and Vacon have
supplied robust, reliable AC drives to the
industry. Their merger represents a meeting of
giants, taking the best of both, leading the way in
engineering efficiency and sustainability in motor
control for mining and mineral processing.
Danfoss Drives offers savings in both capital
and operating expenditure via:
n World-class AC-drive dedicated engineering
n On-site support
The service and support organisation delivers
an extremely comprehensive portfolio of
DrivePro® service offerings and MyDrive® apps
and software tools. These services range from
design (project planning and application support)
to hotline support for startup, repair and
troubleshooting, to the sale of spare parts,
customer training, periodic upgrades and
scheduled maintenance.
For complex applications, Danfoss Drives also
provides additional support in non-standard
software development and in the analysis of
problems related to specific application domains.
The larger organisation is able to provide
extensive round-the-clock support for both VLT®
and VACON® AC drives to mine sites no matter
where they are located. With more than 80 sales
and service centres worldwide, “response is fast
and always highly-qualified,” says Andrew
Cooper, Global Director, Mining.
All drive needs are available under one roof,
with the full range of VLT and VACON drives,
which offer unique flexibility and adaptability to
the motor technology and control system of
choice. As an independent supplier of AC drives,
Danfoss Drives is not locked into predetermined
motor and control system bundles, but instead
offers universal compatibility, and the ability to
customise.
Cooper says that “no matter how welloptimised the plant design, there is always a
way to drive down costs even further. AC drives
are used extensively for just that purpose,
extending equipment lifetime, optimising
processes, reducing maintenance and saving
energy costs.” “Innovation makes all the
difference. The unique back-channel cooling
design of higher power VLT drives and availability
of VACON liquid-cooled drives can result in
significantly reduced heat loads in switchrooms,
enabling the use of smaller, lower-cost airconditioning systems. The smaller footprint of
compact drives saves additional project costs by
reducing the entire switchroom design size.”
Application focus in design means that VLT and
VACON drives are born robust, with coated
electronics and factory testing as standard
practice to ensure long life on site.
They are well suited, for example, to
optimising operat