Digital Displacement Pump Enables Efficiency Gains

March 13, 2023

The Danfoss Digital Displacement pump is a key part of its Dextreme system for excavators which enables improvements in productivity and efficiency.

Sara Jensen

Related To: Danfoss Power Solutions

Danfoss Power Solutions’ Digital Displacement pump uses digital control to individually activate each piston to create flow on demand in hydraulic machinery. This also enables faster and more precise control responses compared to a traditional axial piston pumps.

“We have much faster and more precise control response, thereby optimizing the efficiency of our hydraulic circuit,” said Leif Bruhn, head of Digital Displacement at Danfoss Power Solutions.

The Digital Displacement pump is a key part of Danfoss’ Dextreme system for excavators, which helps to achieve energy savings and thus reduced fuel consumption for machine owners. In this system, the Digital Displacement pump and digital pump controller are used in place of a standard hydraulic pump, which Bruhn said enables up to 15% fuel savings and an increase in productivity.

Power & Motion spoke with Bruhn about the Dextreme system, as well as where Danfoss is at currently with its Digital Displacement pump development efforts.

Danfoss is exhibiting the Dextreme system at IFPE 2023. Visit our IFPE channel to learn more about this and other technologies on display at one of the year's largest events for the fluid power, motion control and power transmission industries.

About the Author

Sara Jensen | Executive Editor, Power & Motion

Sara Jensen is executive editor of Power & Motion, directing expanded coverage into the modern fluid power space, as well as mechatronic and smart technologies. She has over 15 years of publishing experience. Prior to Power & Motion she spent 11 years with a trade publication for engineers of heavy-duty equipment, the last 3 of which were as the editor and brand lead. Over the course of her time in the B2B industry, Sara has gained an extensive knowledge of various heavy-duty equipment industries — including construction, agriculture, mining and on-road trucks —along with the systems and market trends which impact them such as fluid power and electronic motion control technologies.

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