Decades of experience in electronic industrial drives and renewable energy have enabled Bonfiglioli to offer an effective solution for recovering braking energy. This solution comes as the new Active Regenerative System inverters (AEC). In a large number of electrically controlled industrial applications, inertia in moving mechanisms can drive electric motors as they act as brakes. They convert kinetic energy into electrical energy. In a regenerative process, this energy is returned to the grid.

• Reducing local and worldwide energy consumption
• Optional keypad for easy setup, commissioning, parameterization, copy function and diagnosis
• Optional interface for communication with PC
• Optional field bus communication: CANopen, PROFIBUS, Modbus ASCII & Modbus RTU for point-to-point connection, Modbus ASCII & Modbus RTU via RS485 connection
• Integrated dynamic braking module
• DC link connection
• Plug-in and programmable control terminals
• Adjustable displacement factor (sinusoidal)
• Harmonic distortion factor <3% (sinusoidal)
• Operation independent of phase sequence
• Performance and load characteristics curve

Model range:AEC401-19  AEC401-21  AEC401-22  AEC401-23  AEC401-25  AEC401-27  AEC401-29  AEC401-31  AEC401-33  AEC401-35  AEC401-35  AEC401-39  AEC401-43  AEC401-45  AEC401-47  AEC401-49

AEC series: regenerative inverter

Bonfiglioli Active Regenerative System. The innovation that regenerates energy.
Decades of experience in electronic industrial drives and renewable energy have enabled Bonfiglioli Vectron to offer an effective solution for recovering braking energy.
This solution comes in the form of the new Active Regenerative System inverters (AEC). In a large number of electrically controlled industrial applications, inertia in moving mechanisms can drive electrical motors as they act as brakes. They convert kinetic energy into electrical energy. In a regenerative process, this energy is returned to the grid.
Machines like winders and rewinders, flywheels, presses, turntables, lifting equipment and centrifuges all cyclically generate electricity for their motors from the kinetic energy accumulated during their main movement. This energy has to be properly controlled and managed.
Conventional systems based on braking resistors simply dissipate regenerated energy in heat sinks, with an obvious impact on economy and ecology. Today, the need to save energy is making it essential for industry to use control technology that is able to recover braking energy effectively and redistribute it for use by other power users.
AEC regenerative inverters comprise an active-front-end AC/DC converter and a special impedance adaptor stage. They can provide a continuous feed in parallel with the mains power supply, and act either as the system's main bidirectional sine wave inverter or as a square wave unidirectional regenerating inverter.