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DRIVES...

Drive helps to make life under

the sea a better place to be

The sharks, seals, penguins and other creatures at Sea Life Weymouth are benefitting
from a more sustainable environment following the installation of an ABB VSD.

nstalling a variable speed drive (VSD) to the needed, freeing up the second to be used
creature habitats’ water aeration system at Sea elsewhere. With the help of ABB Value Provider,
Life Weymouth has allowed the resident sea IDS, the park identified an aeration system's blower
Ianimals to enjoy a quieter, cleaner and greener used to oxygenate water within the habitats housing
environment. The centre will also benefit from lower the attraction's thousands of aquatic residents, as a
operating costs and a reduction in energy usage. candidate for repurposing the VSD.
The ABB drive was one of two previously Following the retrofit, the VSD enabled a 10
deployed on a sea pump application. It was percent reduction of the blower's motor speed,
subsequently determined that only one drive was resulting in an energy saving of £839 per year. By

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