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

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Savings depend on other<br />

improvements too<br />

◊ <strong>Efficiency</strong> and motor life depend on…<br />

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reducing voltage unbalance and harmonics<br />

improving shaft alignment and lubrication<br />

practice<br />

reducing overhung loads (sideways pulls) on<br />

the shaft that can cut bearing life by at least 5-<br />

to 10-fold, e.g. in belt-drive fans<br />

improving housekeeping—not siting motors in<br />

the sun or next to steam pipes, not smothering<br />

them beneath multiple coats of paint, etc.

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