Efficiency management within an industrial environment

Power conservation has become a high priority to Industry due to recent environmental assessment and electricity prices. This research aims to demonstrate to Industry the many simple and cost effective ways to increase their industrial efficiency with simple modifications, as well as making them more aware of common installation errors that significantly increase power consumption. This has been accomplished with the design and construction of a test rig capable of producing the desired test results which simulate Industrial usage. This paper contains the results obtained from testing a variety of couplings and belts under different running conditions. A comparison of the efficiency of the different belts, at different tensions, showed very distinct advantages and disadvantages of each belt. The coupling testing was conducted under conditions of misalignment, and resulted in distinct differences in the efficiencies of each coupling at the different degrees of misalignments. All results obtained are analyzed and discussed in the relevant sections.