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Akpama, E. J.
Department of Elect/Elect Engineering Cross River University of Technology Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
Okoro, O. I.
Department of Elect/Elect Engineering Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Induction motors has become a dependable industrial process component,
yet the power demand by induction motors is high compared to other power
appliances. Therefore, the efficient use of energy in the application of
consuming appliances is solicited by power producers. There is a need to physically redesign the
induction motor to make them more energy efficient than the normal motors. One
the ways of doing this is to convert the normal three phase machine into
multiphase. Common among the multiphase systems is the six-phase due the ease
of conversion from the normal three phase to six phase. The merits of
multiphase compared to the three phase counterpart are numerous. Therefore,
this paper investigates torque improvement using a six phase induction machine.
The paper models and simulates six phase induction machine and compares the
results with that of a simulated three phase machine. The results show that,
there is torque improvement in the six-phase machine, a merit that could be
deployed in industrial drive systems.
Keywords: Six phase induction machine, Simulation, System modelling, Energy efficiency
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Published
Monday, June 22, 2015
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Vol. 1 No. 1, June 2015
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