Comparative Simulation Study of Pump System Efficiency Driven by Induction and Synchronous Reluctance Motors

Levon Gevorkov, José Luis Domínguez-García, Anton Rassõlkin and Toomas Vaimann
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Levon Gevorkov: Power Systems Group, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Jardins de les Dones de Negre 1, 2a, 08 930 Sant Adria de Besos, Barcelona, Spain
José Luis Domínguez-García: Power Systems Group, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Jardins de les Dones de Negre 1, 2a, 08 930 Sant Adria de Besos, Barcelona, Spain
Anton Rassõlkin: Institute of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia
Toomas Vaimann: Institute of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 11, 1-12

Abstract: Grid-powered pumping plants are widespread electromechanical systems commonly set in motion by electrical machines. The productivity of these electromechanical systems varies substantially according to the shift of the location of the working point on the H-Q plane, which is determined with the help of mutual positions of the characteristics of the pump unit itself and the hydraulic parameters of the pipeline. The topic of the proposed article is mainly focused on the investigation of pumping plant productivity equipped with two various types of electrical machines known as induction and synchronous reluctance motors. A simulation method of efficiency prediction of a centrifugal pumping plant for flow regulation is proposed. The described Simulink/Matlab simulation approach is quite valuable for validating efficiency in the case of pumping plants supplied with various types of electrical machines. The data relating to the electrical machines’ efficiency estimation were obtained during a series of experimental tests with the real experimental setup. Thus, the calculation results of the model are accurate and based on confirmed experimental measurements.

Keywords: pumps; water pumps; hydraulic equipment; modeling; energy efficiency; induction motors; electric machine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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