Energy Efficiency Improvements in Electronic Motors and Drives

Preface.- Energy Efficiency in a Competitive Economy.- Ethics & Answers: Engineering Efficiency for a Sustainable Future.- Technology Developments.- Integration of Motors and Drives.- Design of Motors for Inverter Operation.- Die Casting Copper Motor Rotors: Mold Materials and Processing for Cost-Effective Manufacturing.- Review of the System Compatibility and Ride-through Options for AC and DC Drives Including Multilevel Inverters.- to the Permanent Magnet Motor Market.- High Efficiency Motors - Performance, Economy & Reliability by Optimisation.- The Influence of Selected Losses Components on Induction Squirrel-Cage Motor Efficiency.- Inverter Fed High-Speed Solid-Rotor Induction Motors for IndustrialApplications.- Switched Reluctance Drive for Mass Application.- The Written-Pole(TM) Motor: High Efficiency - Low Start Current.- Motor and Drive Integration with Passive Components Realised Using the Stator Core.- Efficiency Improvement of Variable Speed Electrical Drives for HVAC Applications.- Higher Efficiency Drive for Fluid Treatments.- Motor System.- Characterisation and Applications Characterisation of EU Motor Use.- Minimising Efficiency Loss Caused by Motor Rewinds.- Improving Efficiency in Motor Driven Systems - The Iron Ore Industry.- Optimising Fan Systems for Energy Efficiency.- Energy Optimized Drive Systems Design.- Using Collaboration to Achieve Industrial Market Change.- Pump Design and Applications.- Pump System Effectiveness.- Driver Selection Matched to Demand A Consideration for Maximising Lifecycle Costs by Using the Correct Driver.- Environmental Impact Assessment (LCA) Energy and Re-cycling for a Circulator.- Promoting the Purchase of More Efficient Pumps, A SAVE Study.- On Site Testing.- SQ -Submersible Pump with Integrated Permanent Magnet MotorDrive.- Test Methods for Induction Motors.- Induction Motor Efficiency Measurement.- Experience Factors When Testing for Efficiency and Correlating Resultswith Design.- Approaching the Truth in Induction Motor Efficiency.- Precise Efficiency Data for Electric Motors - an Illusion?.- Calorimetric Method to Measure Total Losses of the Induction Motor.- Precision Calorimetry for Stray Load Loss Determination.- A Test and Measurement System for Test of Electrical Drive Systems.- Induction Motor Efficiency Standards.- Policies.- The European Negotiated Agreement to Improve Motor Efficiency.- EPAct Legislation - The United States Experience of Minimum Efficiency Standards for Induction Motors.- The Challenge to Define the New IEC Test Method.- Evaluating the Impact of a Government-Sponsored Motor Driven System Efficiency Program: The U.S. Experience.- Minimum Standards and Motor Labelling.- Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations for Electric Motors: Four Years Later.- Motors: IEA Perspectives and Activities.- Perspectives of Labelling and Standards of Electric Motors in Europe.- Australia's National Greenhouse Strategy and Electric Motor Efficiency.- Results of the Danish "High Efficiency Motors Campaign".- China - Motors: Opportunities and Activities.- Proposed Principles of the Future Standard for High Efficiency Induction Motors.- Brazilian Minimum Efficiency Level for Industrial Motors: A Successful Low Cost Program.- Programmes.- The UK Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme - Lessons Learned.- The New European Database on Efficient Electric Motor Systems:EURODEEM - 98.- Evaluation of the Design Options and Cost Impact of Improving Induction Motor Efficiency.- "Life-Cycle Costs" of Industrial Electric Drives in the Process Industry-Energy Consumption andEconomics of Electric Drives.- IEA Hi-Motors Competition.- LCC - Based Guidelines on Procurement of Energy Intensive Equipment in Industries.- Examples of Financing Energy Efficiency in Motor Systems.- A New Pay-as-You Save Scheme for the Retrofitting of Variable Speed Drives to Fans and Pumps.- The Impact of Efficiency Legislation on the US Motor Market.- Contract Energy Management of Compressed Air.- Electric Motor Management Scheme.