QM Power
Division: Industrial/Commercial Energy Efficiency
P.J. Piper
441 Marlborough Street #2
Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
Description
QM Power, Inc. is commercializing proprietary, patented and enabling new transformational technologies for electric motors, generators and actuators. Parallel Path Magnetic Technology (PPMT™) was one of its first breakthrough technologies that uses permanent magnets in a novel yet simple and efficient magnetic circuit design that can substantially reduce cost and improve performance for almost any electro-mechanical application. QM Power products have higher power density and reliability, run cooler, are much lighter, smaller and lower cost and operate far more efficiently over a wider power range than conventional/existing AC or DC electric motors, generators and actuators. QM Power is working with strategic industry leaders, universities and government agencies to demonstrate the improved efficiency and performance for wind and hydro power generation, commercial refrigeration and appliances, HVAC, linear actuators/pumps/clamps, industrial motors, military applications, power tools, electric or hybrid electric vehicles, grid scale mechanical energy storage and a variety of other stand-alone applications.
Anywhere there is motion there is likely to be an electric motor, generator or actuator. There are over $1 trillion worth of electromechanical devices in operation today, consuming over $1 trillion (or 60%+) of all electricity generated. As a result, there is no more significant impact on clean technology than improving the efficiency and cost of electric motors, generators and actuators. QM Power is currently working with:
- The Department of Energy to take out 70% or more of the weight of a direct drive permanent magnet generator for wind turbine applications;
- The National Science Foundation to increase the efficiency of the incumbent motor designs by 2-4 times while keeping upfront costs low in HVAC, refrigeration and appliance applications; and
- The Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation and NASA to significantly enhance the power and range/efficiency of robotics and electric vehicle applications.
QM Power technologies are the first in electric motor and generator design that can achieve significantly higher efficiency at the same or lower upfront cost, resulting in no need for a payback period to be calculated. QM Power products realize the weight and volume benefits of displacing field coils with permanent magnets while increasing torque and efficiency by increasing gap flux densities to those of a field wound motor (at the material limits). QM Power has integrated these breakthrough technologies into both permanent magnet and non-permanent magnet designs as well as axial and radial flux configurations. Since PPMT™ has the ability to provide greater energy efficiency for a broad range of both power generation and electric consumption applications, it has the ability to reduce global energy requirements, greenhouse gas emissions and coal fired electricity production by at least 10-20%.
Now that the initial technology development has been completed in prototypes, the value proposition examined and articulated in its target markets and its intellectual property secured, the Company is working with its development partners on several high profile demonstration projects of its technology in industrial, HVAC, electric vehicle and wind applications and establishing production capacity to provide game changing solutions for early adopters.