Upgrade your HVAC equipment to use EC Fans

Daniel Yiu, Regional Sales Manager

ebm-papst Hong Kong Ltd MP: (852) 9321 0453
About Hong Kong, Macau

• 75.8% of commercial buildings and 90% of • 24 hours operation in Macau Casino

composite buildings were built before 1995
 Index

• Problem

• Solution

• Product portfolio

• Benefits

• Installation examples / case studies

• Drop-in kits for HVAC

• Local expertise

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 Old HVAC fans
Problem – High cost: Belt-Driven

- Ongoing maintenance cost for belts, pulleys, bearings

- Failures and inefficiencies
- How well is the current system performing?
- High losses and power consumption
- Belt dust – associated cost
- Noise - fan and pulleys
- Expensive and time consuming to fix

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 Old HVAC fans
Problem – High cost: Blower

- Corrosive - sheet steel impeller

- Dust – associated cost
- Loss 100% any components failure
- Cannot replace fan blower if any failure due
to limited AHU plant Room and access door
- Expensive and time consuming to fix

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Solution provider

EC Upgrades provides a solution to optimise the whole system!

• Initial analysis and proposal

Site surveys • Feasibility studies

• Business case
Proposal • Fan Selection

• Qualified and local contractor

Installation • Or end customer contractor

• Metering
Measurement
and Verification • Reporting
Marketing Mix
Placement Sales channel

Engineering
Contractors
(quotation & technical
issues)

End user(s) /
Operators (direct
promotion, saving
estimation & put tender
specs
 EC Upgrades – Benefits

- No service or maintenance required

- Build in electronics and speed control
(analogue 0-10V, 4-20mA, PID etc)
- High level interface (RS485 MODBUS)
- High efficiency direct drive system
- Modular and redundant systems for larger
installations
- High reliability and minimal down time in
Our products are designed to
cause the least possible disruption cases of fan failures
to your HVAC system during
change over

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 Maximising EC benefits
Speed control

Speed control (reduction) provides massive savings

Just 5% reduction in air flow

Air Volume Power provides 14% reduction in fan power
100% 100%
95% 86% 50% reduction in air flow equates to 87%
reduction in fan power
90% 73%
75% 42%
50% 13% Reduction of outside air into the building
25% 1,6% reduces load on air conditioning system

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 Maximizing EC benefits
High level interface – integration into BMS

LAN/Ethernet
BACNET
MODBUS RTU ….

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 Maximizing EC benefits
High level interface – integration into BMS

MODBUS RTU

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Retrofitting fans - why should I do that?
Lower energy bills and almost zero maintenance
Retrofitting fans - why should I do that?
Retrofitting fans – How to start it?
Template for measuring AHU
 Case Study 2: Ap Lei Chau Building
(FanBox)

Power Consumption Saved Initial Measurement 35%- 50%

Retrofit Works Time 1.5 Days

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 Case Study 1: Grade A Commercial building (Hong Kong Island)
Belt-Driven VSD Fan to EC plug fans for VAV AHU System
Air-conditioning system of variable air volume (VAV)

AC Belt Driven with external VFD

Performance analyses Tools:

• Portable power analyser
• Sound pressure level meter
were utilised

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 Measuring volume air-flow with nozzles

This formula is used to

calculate volume air-flow:

Static pressure ∆pw is measured at these two points –

pressure tap inside nozzle vs. static pressure before
nozzle

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 Report from Hong Kong Green Building Council

http://www.bsomes.org.hk/upload_pdf/GPRD2016_S4-2.pdf

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 • The VFD losses are 10% to 30% at 25%
torque and speed
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• efficiency of a belt drive can easily slip to 60%
to 70% if the gear adjustment is incorrect
• EC Motor can maintain a relatively high
efficiency from the rotation speed of 10% to
100%.
 The fan as a system
Measured Overall Centrifugal Fan system efficiency in an AHU comparison

EC Motor Direct-driven eff 91% x Fan eff 75% = overall eff 68%
% 70 AC Motor Belt-driven eff 77.5% x Fan eff 73% = overall eff 56%

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60 
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Belt-Driven
(current system performing)
System efficiency e

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 PM Plug Fan with Motor Same Air Output but
(IE4)
Lower system efficiency
 AC Plug Fan with Motor
= greater power input
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RLM – Ø 400  EC Plug Fan = extra heat need to be
 AC Plug Fan with Motor (IE2)
(airfoil blade) removed
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EC Fan. THE BEST!
 Partial load rate (3 kW / Ped) %
Thank you for your attention!