QM Power Debuts Energy Efficient Motors

QM Power has introduced the Q-Sync Smart Synchronous Motor, a new class of energy efficient motors that reduces energy consumption up to 80 percent. Q-Sync improves the power quality and reliability of fan motors and provides businesses and OEMs with significant new energy savings retrofit opportunities for the same cost as legacy fan motors. Q-Sync is currently available for refrigeration applications and will expand into additional markets in 2016. QM Power is offering a risk-free financing and services program for Q-Sync to make it easy for businesses to begin reducing their energy costs immediately. Interested businesses can retrofit their equipment with Q-Sync motors at no cost in exchange for sharing their energy savings with QM Power under contract, say company officials. “Motors can consume up to 70 percent of all the energy used in commercial buildings, but amazingly there has been little to no innovation in motor efficiency over the past half century,” says PJ Piper, co-founder, president and CEO of QM Power. “With Q-Sync, we’ve reinvented the fan motor to exceed modern-day energy and environmental requirements, deliver bold new energy savings opportunities and dramatically reduce grid congestion. The motor can now be the next meaningful retrofit and OEM opportunity for energy savings in commercial buildings.” Q-Sync’s controller quickly and efficiently eliminates the need for power conversion after the motor starts. Q-Sync’s electronics quickly get the motor to its targeted speed, and then efficiently shift the motor to AC power supplied directly from the grid. And because Q-Sync is a permanent magnet motor, it eliminates the additional energy requirements and slip that is associated with a shaded-pole motor. The result is a motor that provides up to an 80 percent reduction of energy at the meter and an 80 percent reduction at the grid, officials add. The Q-Sync motor features water resistant casing that prevents common wear and tear from on-site elements. QM Power offers a two-year warranty on its Q-Sync motors. Recognizing its significant potential for energy savings, the Department of Energy (DOE) has named Q-Sync a High-Impact Technology. Over the course of the year, the DOE is working with QM Power, OEMs, supermarkets, service and retrofit contractors and utilities to install and demonstrate over 10,000 higher efficiency Q-Sync fan assemblies in over 50 grocery sites throughout the US. The results of the first DOE demonstration have been documented in a newly released publication by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Oak Ridge report reveals a broader upgrade of the Q-Sync fan motors to applications beyond commercial refrigeration could reduce source energy consumption by as much as 300 billion kilowatt-hours or more, with proportional environmental benefits.