Reliable Testing and Monitoring of Motor-Pump Drives
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Machines Testing and Maintenance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electrical machines, drives and drive systems; (hydro-)mechatronic systems; condition monitoring; soft actuators; motor design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pump units, consisting of a pump, electric motor and often an electronic control system in the form of a frequency inverter, are used worldwide in drinking water supply, residential and commercial properties (in heating, air conditioning, solar and heat pump circuits), process engineering and chemical process circuits, industrial plants and in energy generation, storage and transportation processes, as well as mobile applications such as motor vehicles. It may therefore come as no surprise that pumps consume around 10 percent of the world's electricity. By introducing more efficient pump systems, manufacturers can drastically reduce energy consumption and make an important contribution to global sustainability efforts through resource-saving designs and efficient operation. It is therefore necessary to obtain reliable information about the condition and performance of components and systems during development, type and routine testing as well as operation.
Significant progress and developments have been made recently in both academia and industry, with a focus on the following topics, among others:
- Machine learning for fault diagnosis;
- Online condition monitoring techniques;
- Knowledge discovery from experimental data (KDED);
- Transient analysis techniques;
- Vibroacoustic tools;
- Sensorless monitoring techniques;
- Smart sensors and IoT-based monitoring;
- Accelerated degradation test;
- Methods for determining the efficiency of high-efficiency motors and drives;
- Virtual prototyping and simulation;
- Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA);
- EOL testing processes.
This Special Issue intends to bring together a significant number of contributions in this area through the publication of high-quality original works in the field, subsequently promoting its dissemination through the Open Access system.
Prof. Dr. Sven Urschel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pumps
- motor efficiency
- condition monitoring
- machine learning
- smart sensors
- degradation test
- end-of-line testing
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