Title :
Electric drives and energy efficiency: Myriad meanings
Author :
Onwunta, Oek ; Kahn, MTE
Author_Institution :
Cape Peninsula Univ. of Technol., Cape Town, South Africa
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;
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
