Optimizing Efficiency to Meet
Emmissions Regulations By Dierk Peitsmeyer, Product Portfolio Manager Bucher Electronics
The European Union has stipulated that CO 2 emissions must be significantly reduced. Provisions such as the EU’s Green Label initiative and Germany’s Energy Efficiency Strategy 2050 will have a major impact on technical development in the next few years. Designers will increasingly rely on highly efficient drive systems with alternative and hybrid drives. These changes also affect mobile machines; they will likely be equipped with
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battery-powered electric drives, fuel cells, or diesel generators. Hydraulic systems will require more efficient components and systems for precision movements.
Challenges for drive technology For companies to work economically, electrically driven mobile machines must fulfill some important criteria. Machines must be designed to achieve sufficiently long
operating times without tedious recharging and to work reliably and quickly at high power levels, similar to former machines. Companies also demand low noise emissions and low energy consumption and maintenance costs.
Efficiency the primary factor Sufficient operating time can be achieved with a large dimensioned energy source or with a system with low power dissipation.
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