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News Release from: SPECIAL REPORT by the Editor | Subject: Marlin stainless
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 October 2005
Hose-proof stainless steel electric
motors
Processingtalk editorial for 25 Oct 2005: featuring the press launch of the Marlin Stainless motor from AEG, aimed at the food industry, and the REO variable power supply: report by Nick Denbow
Industrial press conferences announcing 'A new product' can be a real waste of time, travel and effort, so editors have to choose carefully: full credit therefore to REO and AEG Electric Motors, who did a combined press conference recently, and improved efficiency all round Plus the new AEG Marlin Stainless range of IEC metric motors was able to provide the sort of new product presentation that makes you ask why no-one thought of doing this before
The Marlin Stainless motor is a totally enclosed, hygienic smooth surface, wash-down tolerant electric motor.
No paint.
No label (data is etched onto the smooth motor body).
Double lip seal on the shaft, plus a second GAMMA seal.
NTN Blue Seal bearings, good enough to be chosen for use on Snow-Mobiles apparently.
The resulting IP66 motor is able to be hosed-down, just like the rest of the plant.
How many plants say they hose-down, but avoid spraying into the motor, or even cover the motor, before turning on the water? Just in case it does not want to start tomorrow, which will give a big problem.
AEG consulted all the food, disinfection, dairy and other standards, EN, DIN, ISO, FDA, FSA, EHEDG: then they made their Marlin motors truly IEC, truly all stainless 304, and IP66 (hoseproof).
As an extra they hand wind the stator and add the insulation needed for inverter drive, and double impregnate the coil in a vacuum in an autoclave, to totally impregnate the windings, to protect against any condensation as the casing breathes.
Plus they can supply stainless flanges and shafts able to mate with any gearbox, or other drive you might meet in the hygienic food type industries.
The REO power supply is more test gear for process equipment suppliers than true process industry equipment, but can be seen listed in our Top Ten.
It is a Platypus: because it is versatile and adaptable, like the Australian cousin.
The Top Ten also presents several water stories: a new laser based rain analyser, called the Parsivel, from OTT Hydrometry, and if, after the rainstorm, flood warnings are needed, there is an Alarum from Hawker for Combined Sewerage Overflow monitoring.
Plus a 'monitored' waterproof membrane, which stops the rain penetrating through a peat bog, into a reservoir in the Lake District, from DRC Polymers.
It alarms if the water manages to get through! Finishing with more environmental monitoring, accurate sampling of workplace air quality is established using a simple glass tube flowmeter from Roxspur.
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