In electric power systems, it is very common to find problems of power quality. The flow of harmonics significantly affect the operation of three-phase induction motors, and its energy characterization becomes difficult. There are different methods in situ to estimate motor efficiency. However, it is necessary to deepen the in situ efficiency analysis under nonsinusoidal voltage conditions. In this paper, a procedure is presented based on the equivalent circuits with losses segregation and using a bacterial foraging algorithm (BFA). It allows induction motors' energy efficiency determination in field conditions with low invasiveness and working under harmonic distortion. The method was successfully tested on a 1.5 kW motor fed with significant levels of voltage harmonic.Index Terms-Bacterial foraging algorithm (BFA), harmonics, induction motor, in situ efficiency estimation.

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This paper presents the application of a method to determine the output power, losses, and efficiency of induction motors, working in no-controlled conditions, in the presences of unbalanced and harmonics voltages. The method uses the steady state equivalent circuits, with some considerations for the analysis of motor performance, fed with unbalanced and harmonic voltages. The parameters of circuits are determined with low invasiveness, by applying a Bacterial Foraging Algorithm as technique of evolutionary search. With this, the efficiency and other operational parameters can be estimated at any operating point. The method was tested in a 12.6 kW motor working in an industrial network, with harmonics and voltage unbalanced.Index Terms--Equivalent circuits, energy management, harmonic analysis, induction motors, industrial power systems, power quality, parameter estimation, unbalanced voltage.Vladimir Sousa and Milén Balbis, are with GIOPEN of the Electrical Engineering program in Faculty of Engineering

For driving constant loads in industry, the use of direct-on-line-start permanent-magnet-assisted synchronous reluctance motors with ferrite magnets (DOL-Start-PMa-SynRM) is proposed. The bibliographic search demonstrated that this new motor has greater efficiency than one similar induction motor (IM). It was evidenced that the main element that is required for direct starting is to insert a squirrel cage into the rotor of a PMa-SynRM, which does not produce negative operational effects in a steady state. An economic evaluation was carried out in a sugar mill company, applying the differential net present value (NPV) method, and a sensitivity analysis, considering the four factors that present the most variation. It was demonstrated, by means of a Pareto diagram standardized for the NPV that the most significant factors are fuel factor, lifespan and the multiplication of both. With response surfaces that are obtained with a multilevel factorial experiment, it was determined that, by varying the factors in the ranges considered, the NPV always remains positive and higher than 2200 USD. This is mainly due to the notable difference between the efficiency of the DOL-Start-PMa-SynRM and that of the IM. Consequently, is proved that an investment in the DOL-Start-PMa-SynRM may be feasible.

Induction motors that work with unbalanced line voltages have increased losses and excessive heating. In order to maintain the operational life time of the motor the international standards recommend the derating of the motor. This paper presents a study regarding the influence of the positive sequence voltage on induction motors temperature.This study aims to determine whether the voltage unbalance factors indicated by NEMA standards and currently used in industry include the influence of the positive sequence voltage on the performance of three-phase induction motors.

This paper presents the results of a study about the effects of unbalanced voltages on the energy performance of three-phase induction motors. The principal contribution of this paper is that presents a detailed analysis of the influence of positive and negative sequence voltage components and the angle between them on several characteristics such as: line currents, losses, efficiency and power factor under different voltage unbalanced conditions. A three-phase induction motor of 3 HP was used as a case study. The results of the investigation show that the positive sequence voltage must be considered together with the voltage unbalance factor (VUF) or percent voltage unbalance (PVU) index to evaluate the performance of the induction motor. It is also shown that the behavior of the motor load influences on the positive sequence parameters next to the voltage, while in the case of negative sequence only influences the negative sequence voltage. Keyword: Efficiency INTRODUCTIONThe analysis of induction motor operation is important because these represent most of the installed load in industrial systems due to its reliability, power to size ratio, ruggedness and relatively low cost [1]. In addition, they consume approximately 68% of the electric power in this sector [2]. The problems associated with energy quality, constitute an everyday phenomena. Unbalanced voltages, which in most cases occurs associated with voltage deviations, is one of the most common in terms of energy quality and has a direct influence on the increase of losses in electric motors and systems [3].The presence of unbalance is due mainly to the existence of unbalanced loads, unsymmetrical transformer windings or transmission impedances, large single-phase loads, incomplete transposition of transmission lines, open delta transformer connections, blown fuses on three-phase capacitor bank, operation of single-phase loads at different times, defective transformers in power systems, or when one of the threephases of the motor is open [4], [5]. These problems significantly affect the efficiency and other operational characteristics of the induction motors.The operation of induction motor under voltage unbalance conditions produce two rotating fields in the motor air gap, one in the forward direction of the motor rotation (positive sequence) and another in the opposite direction (negative sequence), giving as result an elliptical field [6]. Consequently for a given load and percentage of voltage unbalance, the phase currents and temperature rise much greater than when operating under the same load conditions and balanced voltages, affecting the motor performance.

This paper evaluates the harmonic distortion generated by PWM motor drives in an electrical industrial system of a wheat flour mill company. For this, a comparative study between two industrial circuits connected at the same point of common coupling (PCC) with similar characteristics of load and transformers is presented. The difference is that one circuit has PWM motor drives and the other does not have them. In the study, a practical method based on the statistical characterization of the total harmonic distortion of voltage (THDV) and current (THDI), individual voltage distortion (IVD), individual current distortion (ICD) and K-Factor is applied. As result, it was observed that PWM motor drives generated voltage harmonics mainly of fifth and seventh order with values that exceed limits established by standards in both circuits. With these values, the operation of elements such as capacitors, motors and transformers can be affected. In the work is also demonstrated that in the analysis of harmonics is necessary to consider various parameters and not only one.