 Analysis of electrical motors load factors and energy savings in an Indian cement industryM. Thirugnanasambandam, M. Hasanuzzaman, R. Saidur, M.B. Ali, S. Rajakarunakaran, D. Devaraj and N.A. Rahim Energy, 2011, vol. 36, issue 7, 4307-4314 Abstract: Electric motors consume in between 30% and 80% of the total industrial energy use for few selected countries around the world. It was identified that many motors are operated under loaded conditions. In some cases, motors are operated even at 3–16% of their full loads. These low loads can be optimized with the application of variable speed drives (VSD) to match the load requirements. Based on the estimation, it has been found that annually about 1,865,925MWh of energy can be saved for 60% speed reduction when VSDs are used. It was also found that about 2,122,675tons CO2emission could be avoided annually by using VSDs for Low Tension (LT) motors for 60% speed reduction. It was also estimated that annually about 4,600,386MWh of energy can be saved for High Tension (HT) motors for 60% speed reduction using VSDs. The average payback period (PBP) for implementing VSDs for LT and HT motors found to be very low (i.e. about 2 days). In this particular study it is observed that installing both LT and HT capacitors to improve power factor found to be not economically viable owing to low level of energy savings. Keywords: Cement industry; Energy audit; Energy savings; Motors; VSD (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:energy:v:36:y:2011:i:7:p:4307-4314 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.04.011 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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