Electrical Engineering - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Line-Start Electric Motors: Opportunities and Challenges

The electrical motors are by far the most important type of load in industry and consume more than 50% of all generated electricity worldwide. About 90% of the electrical energy consumed by electric motors belongs to the line-start motor types in which the motor is directly connected to line voltage without the need for a controller. These motors, with the capability of self-starting from stand-still, operate at a single speed suitable for a significant fraction of the industrial loads (e.g., pumps, fans, compressors, conveyor belts, etc.).

This Special Issue aims to explore the design, analysis, optimisation, modelling, prototyping and testing of the line-start motors. It targets performance evaluation of line-start motors in terms of transient and steady-state operations and also evaluating, starting, demagnetisation, and thermal behaviour for various range of power ratings. The Special Issue covers the improvement of analytical and finite-element models in performance prediction as well as the development of the experimental setup in measurement of the transient behaviour of line-start machines under different combinations of the load torque and rotor inertia. It considers a wide range of line-start or direct-on-line motors including the induction motors (IMs), line-start permanent-magnet synchronous motors (LSPMSMs), line-start synchronous-reluctance motors (SynRMs), etc.

This special issue focuses on:

• Analytical and finite element modelling as well as optimization of the line-start motors
• Transient and steady state operation prediction and measurement of the line start motors
• Design and analysis of special types of linestart motors like line-start vernier permanent-magnet motors, multi-phase line-start motors, double-stator line-start motors, etc.
• Demagnetization analysis in the permanent magnet linestart motors
• Fault analysis and fault tolerant analysis of the line start motorsThermal modelling of the linestart motors
• Condition monitoring of linestart motors
• Startup circuit design and equivalent circuit analysis of the single-phase line-start motors
• Application of the artificial intelligence in performance parameters estimation, analysis, and design of the line-start motors
• Solutions for variable speed capabilities as well as improved linestart capability of the line start motors including simplified switching device, circuit implementations, winding configurations, pole changing machines, etc.
• Studies comparing the efficiency, power factor, and reliability of direct line start motors with those of electronically controlled line start motors.

All proposed papers must be submitted via the Journal's electronic submission platform here (this opens in a new tab)

Author Guidelines are available at
https://www.springer.com/journal/202/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab)

Full manuscripts due by December 20, 2022

Guest editors:
Amin Mahmoudi, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Solmaz Kahourzade, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Zahra Nasiri-Gheidari, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Yang Yubo, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Xiaodong Liang, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Nuwantha Fernando, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal
Fabrizio Marginetti, University of Cassino and South Lazio, Cassino, Italy
Chunhua Liu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Youguang Guo, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia