• DocumentCode
    555490
  • Title

    Electric drives and energy efficiency: Myriad meanings

  • Author

    Onwunta, Oek ; Kahn, MTE

  • Author_Institution
    Cape Peninsula Univ. of Technol., Cape Town, South Africa
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    16-17 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    105
  • Lastpage
    110
  • Abstract
    The recent advancements in electric motor speed control and application in the industrial and commercial sectors have warranted several authors describing or defining electric drive from their perspectives. This has resulted to the immense growth of the literature on ac (alternating current) drives which has proliferated in different directions, so that a motivated reader attempting to study the literature gathers only frustration. Likewise energy efficiency means different things to different people. To some energy efficiency is the same as energy conservation, and to others exergy efficiency should be preferred to energy efficiency.
  • Keywords
    AC motor drives; angular velocity control; energy conservation; machine control; AC drive; alternating current drive; electric drive; electric motor speed control; energy conservation; energy efficiency; exergy efficiency; myriad meaning; Electric motors; Energy efficiency; Induction motors; Inverters; Variable speed drives; Velocity control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial and Commercial Use of Energy (ICUE), 2011 Proceedings of the 8th Conference on the
  • Conference_Location
    Cape Town
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1745-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-9814311-6-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6033092