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ECSYSTEMS
Big success at US trade show AHR Expo in Anaheim:

Perfect noise behaviour:

Quiet energy-saving giants from

ebm-papst given award as most
innovative product

EC motor for universal applications

ASHRAE, the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers, has singled
out and honoured the energy-saving giants from
ebm-papst in Mulngen (Germany) with an award
for the most innovative product in the field of
ventilation.
ASHRAE president Richard Rooley presented the
ASHRAE Award to ebm-papst Inc. product manager Armin Hauer during the AHR Expo in Anaheim,
California. This largest and most important US
trade show for heating, refrigeration and air-conditioning attracted about 50,000 visitors from
this industry who came to see what kind of products the 1,800 exhibitors from 26 countries
had to offer.
For Michael Bauer, EC business segment manager at ebm-papst Mulngen, this award just testifies to the fact that EC technology will turn out
to be the technology of the future even in big sizes.

With the award, the top-notch ASHRAE jury honoured an excellent and outstanding piece of development accomplished by ebm-papst engineers. The
world market leader in motors and fans has come
up with EC motors that use up to 30 percent less
energy than conventional motors. This is the reason
the EC motors are called energy-saving giants
and marketed as EC Giants in the English-speaking
world. Launched in 2003, these products make a
substantial contribution to environmental care not
only because they have markedly higher efficiency, but also because they generate a lot less noise
than conventional motors. Another decisive advantage: the quiet giants come with their electronic control already integrated.
With EC motors and EC fans, the AC current from
the mains is converted into DC via special electronics. Compared to other EC products, the ebm-papst
energy-saving giants offer higher efficiencies,
generate less noise, have integrated electro nics and
come in impressive sizes!
As for price, the energy-saving giants are comparable with conventional AC systems.
The energy-saving giants are used as axial
fans (impeller diameter 710, 800, 910 and 990
mm) in refrigeration, with condensers, water
chillers, dry coolers and evaporators. As centrifugal fans (impeller diameter 500 to 630 mm), they
are used in climate cabinets, air conditioning
room units, and industrial extraction hoods as
well as in rooftop fans.
For Gerhard Sturm, founding ebm-papst President and C.E.O., the energy-saving giants help
to keep jobs in Germany: With this new technology, ebm-papst has managed once again to
take the technological lead over our global competitors.

Armin Hauer, ebm-papst Inc. product manager,

receiving the ASHRAE Award during the AHR
Expo in Anaheim

The EC motor in size 55 newly developed by ebmpapst Mulngen is very quiet and perfectly and
optimally adapted to the various and diverse applications in building ventilation and air-conditioning,
in telecommunications and in refrigeration.
This revolutionary 3-core motor sets new standards in its class and size as noise and vibration
are hardly generated at all. This motor variant is
an economic replacement for the conventional
anti-vibration mounted solution with integrated
electronics established on the market so far.
Apart from its substantially higher efficiency compared to conventional AC motors and its signicantly lower generation of heat, this ebm-papst EC
motor offers comfortable and simple open and
closed loop control possibilities. The electronics
integrated in the motor can directly be connected
to the 230 V AC mains.
Moreover, the new fan types based on this motor
design can be installed in any mounting position
and thus open up a wide range of possible applications. According to the manufacturer, these fans
are available as of mid-2004.

ebm-papst centrifugal fan with

EC motor M3G055

Imprint:
ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
Bachmuehle 2
D-74673 Mulfingen
Phone +49 (0)7938 / 81-0
Fax +49 (0)7938 / 81-110
info1@de.ebmpapst.com

EC SYSTEMS

EC-Giants take over in the

rst supermarket
The new EC-Giants are ready!
After the successful introduction of the EC-Giants
during IKK 2002 to the market and installations
and applications in Precision Air Handling Units
(backward curved R3G560s and R3G630s) during
2003 the next EC-Giant generation is ready for
the market.
ebm-papst has built in additional features like PID
controller for closed loop control of pressure, airspeed, air-flow, and temperature. Powersupply for

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During a hot summer day (there were plenty of

very hot days in 2003) the fans will run beyond
nominal speed to cover peak load situation.
During last years hottest days many of the conventional systems could not produce enough cooling and special action had to be used. In some
cases water had to be sprinkled manually over
the condenser unit for additional cooling.
During night time there is much less cooling reqired
and outside temperatures are low. The EC-fans

Flat
sharp & beautiful
Everybody wants them some of us already use them
and most people do not know that ebm-papsts
latest EC technology is being used to make them.
Flat screen TV and computer screens or PDPs
(Plasma Display Panels), TFT (xxxxx), LCDs (liquid
crystal displays) and Projection TVs are what we
are talking about.
The worlds largest number of researchers, designers
and manufacturers of these technologies are located in South Korea. Companies like LG (Lucky Goldstar) or SAMSUNG were guided and supported by
the South Korean government several years ago to
become the global leaders for these products.
Huge investments for clean room facilities are necessary to manufacture i.e. at screen TVs of up to 72
in size.
Clean rooms with oor areas as large as forty football elds are being currently planned and constructed to cope with the global demand of more and
more at screens.
And more and more of these clean rooms are being
equipped with FFUs (fan lter units) that are being
driven with ebm-papsts EC-fans with integrated
electronic.

a sensor is coming with the new product as well

as 0-10 Volt or 4-20mA input and the MasterSlave-function. More room within the terminal
box and an aluminium cover make the connection
and commissioning even more easy (EC is easy).
All these additional benefits and functions come
at the same price. Using the built in PID-controller
instead of a separate controller saves money.

are electronically speed controlled to much lower

rpm.
EC-Giants are by far less noisy than the widely used
AC-fan. This is well accepted by noise sensitive
neighbourhood in residential areas during the night.
Triac or thyristor controlled AC fans produce a typical humming noise at reduced rpm and are not
accepted because of the noise.

Immediately after final R&D of the upgraded ECGiants, lab tests and verifications a pilot project
was launched to prove the function in the field.
In the small town of Kolbermoor near Rosenheim
in Bavaria Gntner and ebm-papst Mulfingen
installed the first EC-Giants S3G800-BA02-03 in
a condenser application. For the first time three
800 mm EC-fans were used for closed loop headpressure control.
Closed loop sensor control will maintain a head
pressure of 12 bar with a proportional band of 3
bars independand of load and cooling requirements. The fan will start to turn at 12 bar head
pressure and will run design speed at 15 bar.
The set value and PID parameters are set via LISA
software.
One fan acts as master and two fans are set as
slaves.

The Kolbermoor-Installation is the first to be used

as a case study. More case studies will be carried
out under different climate conditions. Supermarkets in Australia and Portugal will be among the
next to be equipped with EC-Giants.

Because of their efficiency, no-noise technology, price

competitiveness, and superior air performance our
newly developed range of backward curved motorized impellers guarantee a quiet, trouble and dust
free work environment in clean rooms.
Also because of ebm-papst Koreas Managing Director Mr. Bok-Min Jungs hard work and excellent relationship to the top decision makers in this industry
ebm-papst Mulngen could enter this conservative
industry.
So ebm-papst Mulngen products are responsible
for the manufacturing process and its smaller
square brothers from ebm-papst St. Georgen are
responsible for cooling the electronics of the at
screens which are mounted on the backside of the
at screens.
This is why ebm-papst became a very important
supplier of highly reliable EC fans which guarantee
the perfect view into the future!
R3G 630 one of the highly reliable
EC fans from ebm-papst