About Breuer-Motoren

1- Motors

Breuer has a wide range of motors suitable for all heavy duty applications, particularly for use in mining machinery and oil & gas rigs. Breuer motors are also used in tunnelling, test bench technology, railway, and specialty vehicles – any application that requires reliability, cost efficiency, robustness, energy saving and compact component design.

When it comes to constructing unique customized motors to satisfy your special requirements, Breuer regularly applies the knowledge and many years of expertise held by our specialists in Bochum.Air-cooled motors with integrated frequency converters and customized software, liquid-cooled motors with additional shaft cooling for special performance requirements and an additional bronze coating in the cooling channels to increase protection against corrosion, everything is possible.

Along with other standard fittings such as heating, lighting, top-mounted cable glands etc., Breuer specialize in customized control cabinets. Examples include: metal fittings on the cabinet, colour, special dimensions, sea water resistance, metal frame with increased stiffness, hand rails according to DNV, cooling (reduction or air suction not on the bottom), PLC integration, AFE-power regeneration,protection class up to IP65, etc. A comprehensive protection and diagnostic concept ensures easy installation, and secure operation in rough environments.

Breuer can deliver components as well as total solutions containing switch gear, transformers, frequency converters and motors. Our project engineers will offer you support in component choosing, system design, project design, installation and commissioning.

Example :
Replacement of a 6-cylinder diesel engine with 18 litre cylinder capacity at a large construction machine by a speed / torque controlled, water-cooled 550 kW Breuer asynchronous motor with integrated frequency converter.

Especially in the metropolitan regions, the requirements for the reduction of exhaust and noise emissions are increasing worldwide. Even with large high-performance construction machines, an increasing market for machines with low-emission drive variants is developing.

In line with this trend, Breuer-Motoren developed an electric drive with an integrated frequency converter. In addition to the performance of the drive, the focus was on minimal design adaptations to the construction machine.

This enabled the customer to replace the diesel engine by the low-emission Breuer frequency converter motor in a short period of time.

2- MINING MOTORS

The Breuer flameproof range of motors is synonymous with quality, durability and high reliability essential for operating in an underground mining environment. We offer a full range of motors covering all mining applications including: AFC, BSL, crusher, shearer, traction, tunnelling and pumping.
Breuer also custom design and manufacture motors to meet our customers’ demanding specifications using our team of highly qualified and experienced specialist engineers.

Our range covers both water and air cooled motors with optional additional shaft cooling for special performance requirements. We can also offer additional bronze coatings to increase corrosion protection.

1- TOPDRIVE MOTORS

BREUER is a world-renowned provider of VFD and AC motor solutions for all market areas which demand tough, reliable and long-lasting equipment. Operating from our head office and main manufacturing plant in Bochum, Germany, all of our products are designed, manufactured and tested in-house to rigorous and exacting standards.

BREUER, founded in 1877, have been supplying high quality products to the Oil & Gas industry for over 20 years. The first electric AC TopDrive motor was designed in 2005 as a 500T TopDrive motor. Until today around (50) different designs and more than (500) built units were following.

2- DRAWWORK AND MUD PUMP MOTORS

BREUER as a world-renowned provider for Oil & Gas drilling AC motors is known for robust, reliable and long-lasting equipment in compact design and less weight. With more than 20 years of experience in oil & gas drilling motors and with the background of the long-term experience of coal mining motors, BREUER is a leading company in quality products.

AC motors for Mudpump, Drawwork and RotaryTable can be offered to both standard and customized specifications. Our water- and air-cooled AC motors for onshore and offshore rigs are widely compatible with all types of equipment and are designed for maintenance-free operation of 50.000h (6 years) and easy and fast service. The motors are certified to operate in temperatures from -40°C (-40°F) to +55°C (+131°F) without power reduction in order to meet the requirements of desert rigs. In addition, our new generation of low noise motors provides new opportunities for drilling in housing areas. In a mostly similar design also Medium Voltage motors up to 4,16kV are possible.

3- Variable Frequency Motors (ecoVert VFM)

In the drilling industry where time truly does mean money, design and efficiency are hand-in-hand with business success. BREUER solutions and mainly the new VFM (Variable Frequency Motor), a motor with integrated VFD, bringing this advantage for your land and offshore drilling operations. For decades, BREUER has specialized in finding easier, more cost-efficient and more efficient ways for their customers to minimize downtimes and make drilling rigs as intelligent, productive and profitable as they can be.

A NEW impulse for oil and gas drilling!

BREUER’s Made in Germany motors get the job done all over the world in a wide variety of sectors. Over 800 of BREUER’s Variable Frequency Motors (ecoVert VFM) have stood the mining test since the turn of the century. Moreover, in oil and gas drilling, over 1,800 AC motors and more than 400 AC TopDrive motors from the Bochum, Germany plant are currently in use. BREUER is combining the advantages of its company’s own VFD technology with the strengths of the oilfield AC motors in one VFM. Take advantage of this innovation for your oil and gas drilling work.

THE PERFECT ALL-IN-ONE SOLUTION When the Oilfield ecoVert VFM is used, a Power Control Room (PCR) is, for the most part, not needed. The motor is suitable for existing rigs with a third Mudpump as well as for converting rigs from DC to AC technology. During the retrofit process, work in the Power Control Room is not or only minimal required.

VFM IS ALWAYS INTERCHANGEABLE WITH EXISTING MOTOR TECHNOLOGY. The ecoVert VFM is ideally suited for retrofitting. It replaces old components with ones that are structurally identical but better. The water and air-cooled motors for onshore and offshore drilling rigs are compatible with every type of equipment and can be easily maintained and replaced. As a result, investment, commissioning, and operating costs can be considerably reduced.

Wiring to be done as for a simple motor
Only requires power supply and communications cable (no heater, blower or temperature cable needed)
Chopper, rectifier, inverter, motor, encoder in one
Different communication technologies (e.g., ProfiNet, etc.) or hardwired (for rigs without PLC control)
Inverter ensures longer life- and maintenance free time, energy-efficiency, quiet operation
1150, 1300, or 1600 hp with 600 V (version with medium voltage possible)
Available as an ATEX and a non-ATEX version
Safe operation because the electronics are completely separate from the airflow
Extremely robust, VFM technology transferred from coal mining industry
Identical to the performance of a VFD solution in PCR

4- DRIVE SYSTEMS

Breuer is widely known as a leading provider of intelligent motor solutions for all extraction industries. Originating from the coal mining industry, Breuer has developed a wide range of specialist motors and drives over many decades. After worldwide success of its award-winning technology, Breuer transferred this knowledge to applications within other market sectors and has consequently long since become a developed and trusted supplier to the Oil & Gas drilling industry. After a period of more than 20 years we now have strong and successful partnerships with many Oil & Gas drilling OEMs and End-user across the globe.

The Breuer VFD product line ecoVert® is the key to our success. Its modular design and high-power capability provide individual, cost-effective solutions for any requirement in the power range of 15kW to 2700 kW (20hp to 3600hp). Being designed and manufactured in Germany, ecoVert® drives offer the reliability, safety and flexibility required to meet the ever-increasing demands of this industry.

Ideal for power control room (PCR) or TopDrive container
Plug and play installation
Fiber-optic communication to ensure secure operation in EMC sensitive areas
Available for all Rig types
VFD and SCR are BREUER own technology
Customized designs optimized to your needs
Safe and reliable system
Compact design
for onshore or offshore environments
for arctic and desert environments
Remote access possible
Documentation and archive options using our ecoWin® software tools

5- POWER CONTROL ROOM (PCR) AND TD CONTAINER

The drilling industry is powered by customer designed Power Control Rooms, especially the on- or offshore designed Containers fulfilling all upcoming power related needs. Mostly space and costs are next to service reliability, maintenance free designs, flexible in operation and operation in rough areas are the key words to invest in new technology. Is it from updating DC technology to AC technology or adding a separate TopDrive or Mudpump Container? Hereby BREUER offers a well-tested and if needed certified solution for basic and extended needs?

The BREUER Power Control Room for different Rig sizes starting from 1000hp, 1500hp, 2000hp up to 3000hp Rigs, you will find your optimized Container based on your needs. The Power Control Room will be designed in 3D showing and explaining you the system and help to upgrade it to the maximum. The Power Control Room includes the MCC, VFD, Chopper, braking resistors, Air Conditioning, everything up to the embedded safety buttons and control.

The smaller single drive solution as TopDrive or Mudpump Container offers on a maximum performance on minimum space. The TopDrive Container with VFD, Air conditioning, braking resistor and your customer designed PLC finds space on a footprint of down to only 3m x 3m (9,84 ft x 9,84 ft). Special designs for on- and offshore platforms, artic and desert Rigs.

• Available for all Rig types
• VFD and SCR are BREUER own technology
• Customized designs optimized to your needs
• Safe and reliable system
• Compact
• for onshore or offshore environments
• for arctic and desert environments
• Remote access possible