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Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 2: Industry - Rocky Mountain ...

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1. Electromechanical actuators<br />

(rotary and linear, all sizes)<br />

◊ Prof. Delbert Tesar, UT/Austin, is doing for EM<br />

actuators what Gordon Moore did for chips<br />

◊ Equipping an aircraft carrier with modern electric<br />

actuators, replacing hydraulics in 12 main<br />

applications, would save:<br />

1.4 million pounds (weight reduced 3.2×)<br />

500 billets (personnel reduced 2.9×)<br />

61,000 square feet (space reduced 9.2×)<br />

Maintenance (reduced 2.7×, complexity 2.2×)<br />

<br />

$20–25 million/y of operating cost<br />

◊ Order-of-magnitude improvements in power<br />

density, reliability, and precision; same/less cost<br />

◊ Most if not all of what’s now done with hydraulics<br />

is better done with electrics

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