How Artificial Intelligence can boost power factor in a squirrel cage motor design (IMAGE)
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The AI-optimized squirrel cage motor rotor (Left) and the unoptimised rotor (Right). An electrical engineering researcher at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) optimizes a rotor design for a squirrel cage motor with Artificial Intelligence(AI). In the lab tests, he finds that the AI-optimized 5.5kW motor performs efficiently with excellent power factor at very low loads. Dr Mbika Muteba’s study appears in the journal Energies, titled ‘Optimization of Air Gap Length and Capacitive Auxiliary Winding in Three-Phase Induction Motors Based on a Genetic Algorithm’, https://doi.org/10.3390/en14154407.
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Graphic design and photos by Therese van Wyk, University of Johannesburg.
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