The design of high-efficiency line-start motors

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1555-1562

  Knight, Andrew M ^a   McClay, Catherine I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

, permanent magnet motor; Efficiency; Induction motor; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOADS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS;

LINE-START MOTORS;

INDUCTION MOTORS;

EID: 0034314794     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.887206     Document Type: Article

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