 A novel method to determine the motor efficiency under variable speed operations and partial load conditionsYunhua Li, Mingsheng Liu, Josephine Lau and Bei Zhang Applied Energy, 2015, vol. 144, issue C, 234-240 Abstract: As one of the significant parameters to characterize the motor performance, motor efficiency changes under variable speed and load conditions. Although there are many methods to measure the partial load motor efficiency under the full speed condition, few of them are available to estimate the efficiency under partial speed conditions. In this paper, a new and original concept of “load ratio” is brought forward to describe the motor performances. A simple method is proposed to estimate the motor efficiency under variable speeds operations and partial load conditions using load ratio, speed ratio, rated motor power and rated motor efficiency. To validate the accuracy of this method, the partial loads full speed operation data from the MotorMaster+ database and the published data under the variable speed conditions from other researcher’s tests are used for demonstration. The results indicate that the relative errors using the proposed method at full speed are within ±5%. Under variable speed conditions, the relative error is within 10% when the speed ratio is above 0.5. Keywords: Motor efficiency; Variable speed; Partial load; HVAC (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:appene:v:144:y:2015:i:c:p:234-240 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.064 Access Statistics for this article Applied Energy is currently edited by J. Yan More articles in Applied Energy from Elsevier |
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