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