1. DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF INDUCTION MOTORS WITH DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION ALGORITHMS WITH AN APPLICATION IN TEXTILE SPINNING.
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Raj, C.Thanga, Thangaraj, Radha, Pant, Millie, Bouvry, Pascal, and Abraham, Ajith
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SQUIRREL cage motors , *INDUCTION motors , *TEXTILE industry , *SPINNING machinery , *DIFFERENTIAL evolution , *OPTIMAL designs (Statistics) , *MATHEMATICAL optimization - Abstract
This article deals with the design optimization of a squirrel-cage three-phase induction motor, selected as the driving power of spinning machines in the textile industry, using three newly developed versions of differential evolution (DE) algorithms called modified DE versions (CMDE, GMDE, and LMDE). Efficiency, which decides the operating or running cost of the motor (indus-try), is considered as the objective function. First, the algorithms are applied to design a general purpose motor with seven variables and nine performance-related parameters with their nominal values as constraints. To make the machine feasible, practically acceptable to serve in textile indus-tries, and less costly to operate, certain constraints are modified in accordance with the demands of the spinning application. Comparison of the optimum designs with the industrial (existing) motor reveals that the motor designed by the proposed algorithms consumes less power input. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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