A Non-Intrusive Motor Load Identification Method Based on Load Transient Features

Abstract

Motor load accounts for more than 50% of the total electric power load in China. Identifying the load of induction motors non-intrusively is of great importance for the design of energy-saving schemes and formulation of demand-side response strategies in industrial enterprises. Based on the transient mechanism of the induction motor, the present work first defines some motor load start-up transient feature parameters with clear physical meanings and proposes a set of non-intrusive motor load identification methods applicable to industrial settings. In addition, a case study that applied the proposed method to the industrial setting was performed to verify its effectiveness. The results showed that the proposed method can overcome the problem of misidentification caused by the fact that the start-up transient process is affected by its mechanical load characteristics and hence can identify motors with similar running power and has good anti-interference capacity despite power quality disturbances.