Can soft-starters help save energy?

IEEE Industry Applications Magazine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 56-66

  Blaabjerg, Frede ^a,e   Pedersen, John K ^a,e   Rise, Soren ^b   Hansen, Hans Henrik ^c,e   Trzynadlowski, Andrzej M ^d,e  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

^c DEFU   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e IAS ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER LOADS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATORS; TORQUE MEASUREMENT; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

POWER ANALYZERS; SOFT STARTERS;

SQUIRREL CAGE MOTORS;

EID: 0031232637     PISSN: 10772618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2943.612238     Document Type: Article

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