Development of a permanent magnet free piston compressor

Monyane, Dyke Wellington

Development of a permanent magnet free piston compressor

Author(s)

Monyane, Dyke Wellington

Date Issued

2005

Type

Thesis

Publisher

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Abstract

There is a high demand for refrigerators in South Africa, as revealed by the Eskom TSI market survey. Refrigerators are found to be expensive becoause compressors are imported and compressors cost 45% of the total budget of a refrigerator. For this reason a project was undertaken to develop an affrodable refrigirator but this was unsuccessful owing to expensive compressors. The compressor consists of an induction motor coupled to the compression unit via a crankshaft. In this thesis a novel permanent magnet free piston compressor is designed and constructed by using a linear motor topology.

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Thesis (MTech (Electrical Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2005.

Subjects

Compressors -- Design...

Compressors -- Perfor...

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