A numerical evaluation of damages caused by asynchronous motors to the environment

In recent years a slow but progressive increase in the world's temperatures has been consistently recorded. To oppose this global warming trend, two especially important actions are the monitoring and reduction of greenhouse emissions, in large quantity caused by global electric energy production. To this regard an algorithm is proposed to estimate the particles released into the atmosphere as a consequence of the electric energy produced for the operation of asynchronous motors, which in industrialized countries absorb as much as 60% of the total electric energy generated. The described procedure can also help to evaluate the possibility to supply motors with electric energy produced from renewable sources instead of from thermal power plants supplying traditional public networks, which would of course reduce the environmental impact of motors to almost zero. Emissions linked to electric energy generation were evaluated on the basis of statistics collected from the main electric utilities. The proposed algorithm was validated by means of laboratory tests performed on a single asynchronous motor working under different operating conditions.

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