Embraco and EECON (Embraco Electronic Controls), a company specialized in developing, manufacturing and selling electronic controls for home appliances, have both established a partnership with the navigator Amyr Klink, for his expedition to South Georgia (Antarctica). For the first time, on the 12th January, Amyr Klink began his expedition from the docks of the National Sea Museum, in São Francisco do Sul – SC, Brazil, which is located on the vicinity of Joinville, home of Embraco and EECON. One of the objectives                                                  of this expedition had been of                                                         environmental character:                                                            the crew recorded, in                                                          photos and videos, rare                                                     birds that later will be                                                          scientifically classified.                                                      Amyr returned to
                                                  São Francisco do Sul
                                              on the 18th February.

 

The sailboat Paratii 2 is equipped with a refrigeration system that runs with Embraco VCC – Commercial Refrigeration. Such compressor has just been launched in the international market. “The system allows low energy consumption, and its noise level is very low”, said the navigator. The reduction in energy consumption of the Commercial Embraco VCC may reach 40% in comparison to the consumption of a standard compressor.

For Laércio Hardt, Corporate Officer of Sales and Marketing at Embraco, the use of the product under extreme conditions is a good way to test a series of components, in order to improve them. “From 2002, Embraco has been a partner to Amyr Klink, and his previous journeys have allowed us to perform relevant analysis of our product. The compressor that is being used on Paratii 2 is already fitted with some of the evolutions that came from such experiences”.

 

 

The Embraco VCC – Commercial
Refrigeration has been
developed to operate
in robust commercial
applications. The
electronic control of
the Embraco VCC
Commercial has
been developed by
EECON using digital signal
processing technology, and is compatible with
electronic and electromechanical thermostats (On/Off).
Due to the flexible connections, its integration
with existing refrigeration systems is very easy.

 

 

The journey also brought
an opportunity to perform
a brand new act: monitoring
the performance of the
compressors, via satellite
communication. That is possible
due to the features provided by the electronic control
from EECON. Since the beginning of expedition,
EECON is monitoring temperature, power, rotation
and other variables of the system and environment.
Such monitoring is centralized in a computer
that transmits the gathered information, via satellite, to EECON’s headquarters, where specialists evaluate the product’s performance. In this manner, the company will gather valuable data that will be employed for the improvements of the next generations of variable
capacity compressors, and development of a
concept of remote support for compressors used in commercial applications.