Thirugnanasambandam, M. and Hasanuzzaman, M. and Saidur, Rahman and Ali, M.B. and Rajakarunakaran, S. and Devaraj, D. and Rahim, N.A. (2011) Analysis of electrical motors load factors and energy savings in an Indian cement industry. Energy, 36 (7). pp. 4307-4314. ISSN 0360-5442, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2011.04.011.
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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 1,865,925 MWh of energy can be saved for 60 speed reduction when VSDs are used. It was also found that about 2,122,675 tons CO(2)emission could be avoided annually by using VSDs for Low Tension (LT) motors for 60 speed reduction. It was also estimated that annually about 4,600,386 MWh 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 IT and HT capacitors to improve power factor found to be not economically viable owing to low level of energy savings.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Additional Information: | 797HR Times Cited:4 Cited References Count:47 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cement industry; energy audit; energy savings; motors; vsd; efficiency standards; empirical-analysis; power sector; malaysia; cost; productivity; emissions. |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Mr Jenal S |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2013 07:22 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2019 05:41 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/6604 |
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