HVACR drives

ABB drives are perfect for all your HVACR applications, including air-handling units, chillers, heat pumps, and cooling towers. They work seamlessly across various settings, from residential and commercial buildings to hospitals, data centers, airports, and tunnels

Leading the way with HVACR drives

Comfort in buildings depends on efficient systems for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) to maintain high air quality and ideal ambient temperatures. These systems must deliver energy-efficient and cost-effective solutions, ensuring safety in both routine and critical situations.

 

ABB optimizes HVACR systems with dedicated variable speed drives (VSDs) that offer quality, reliability, and energy savings. Designed for ease of use and maintenance, these drives make comfort  and safety effortless.

Key benefits

ABB understands the complexity of air handling systems and the need to produce high levels of comfort and safety. Be assured that, regardless of the season or external conditions, ABB HVACR drives will help make your system efficient, reliable, and informative.

Flexible installation

Uniform enclosure size, DIN-rail and screw mounting, and zero side clearance offer versatile installation options.

Reliable performance

Coated boards, fault protection, and operation at up to 50 °C ensure dependable performance.

Instant availability

HVACR drives are readily available from ABB partners and distributors for quick delivery.

Typical industries

Fans, Compressors, Cooling towers, Chillers, Circulator pumps, Condenser water pumps, Boilers, Air handling units, Heat pumps

Expertise and technology

Energy efficiency

Nearly 70 percent of all electrical energy in industry is used to power motors. They enable applications to run in an industry process, such as pumps moving liquids, or fans moving air. Lowering CO₂ emissions and increasing energy efficiency is critical for our planet, but also for ensuring stable and productive industry operations.

Digital offering

Our award-winning digital solutions enable partners and end-users to become better in their business. Simple as that.

Reliability

ABB has a comprehensive range of reliable, energy efficient low voltage and medium voltage drives, along with energy efficient motors and generators, all complemented by services. Backed by years of rigorous testing, ABB drives and industry-leading expertise ensure peak performance and minimized maintenance costs—delivering reliability you can trust.

Functional safety

ABB offers various safety devices and tools for designing safer machines and processes that utilize drives. Our drive-based functional safety offering includes drives that come with integrated safety features and extended safety functionality all in one package. Safe connection between drive and PLC can be established using PROFIsafe or CIP safety protocols. This is enabled using optional safety functions modules.

Ecodesign directive

There is rapidly growing demand worldwide for more efficient products to cut energy consumption, reduce emissions and help to build a more sustainable future. The Ecodesign regulation (EU) 2019/1781 is an effective way to improve the environmental performance of products by setting minimum energy efficiency requirements for low voltage induction motors and variable speed drives.

All-compatible drives portfolio

There are many things to evaluate when investing in a variable speed drive or other piece automation. At the end you should be able to make a well-informed decision considering both the short-term investment and the long-term cost of ownership.

Harmonics

Harmonics pollute the electrical network and make equipment connected to it behave erratically. Harmonics can cause damage to sensitive electronics, interference in communication equipment, and false readings on measurement devices. Harmonics can trip circuit breakers, blow fuses and cause capacitor failures.

Discover your drive solution

  1. Select your industry & choose your application

    Discover how ABB Motors and Drives seamlessly integrate into your industry and application, boosting energy efficiency along the way.

  2. Find the right motor & drive

    Utilizing our Drive & Motor selector, we can assist you in discovering the ideal solution tailored to your needs, guided by your specific specifications. Simply choose your country, industry, application, and power level.

  3. Ease of use with ABB Digital Tools & connectivity

    Enhance the core functionality and data transfer capabilities of the drives by incorporating fieldbus adapters, safety function modules, human-machine interfaces, and peripheral options.

  4. Contact us or find a partner

    Our global network of salespeople and channel partners is dedicated to supporting you with your application wherever you are in the world.

  5. Our expertise at your service

    ABB Motion Services helps you maximize uptime, extend product lifetime, enhance performance and boost energy efficiency of your motors, generators and drives.