University of Puerto Rico

Mayagez Campus
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Final Proyect: Induction Motor Modeling in Matlab

By:
AL
Prof. Venkatesan
Date: December 3, 2013

Contents
Introduction:............................................................................................................... 3
Problem Data:............................................................................................................. 3
Graphs........................................................................................................................ 5

INEL4405: Induction Motor Matlab Model

Experimentation......................................................................................................... 8
Evaluation.................................................................................................................. 9
Conclusion and Future Work..................................................................................... 10
Appendix.................................................................................................................. 11
Program Code........................................................................................................ 11

Introduction:

Page 2

INEL4405: Induction Motor Matlab Model

Induction motors are the workhorse of the industry. It is

essential part in conveyors, extractors, fans, washers,
compressors and many more industrial applications. This
work will be focusing on a mathematical model in Matlab
that given the parameters a characterization curve is
plotted. Torque, Efficiency, Current and power factor is
plotted vs the slip. The model above is used

From http://www.mathworks.com/help/physmod/elec/ref/inductionmotor.html

Page 3

INEL4405: Induction Motor Matlab Model

Problem 9.7 Data:

A 208 v, 60 hz, 4 pole, three phase Y connected
induction with parameters:
R1: .4,
R2:.3
X1: 0.8

X2: 0.9
Rotational Loss: 205
watts

Solution:
V ln =

V
3

Ns=

120 f
P

V ln =

208
3

Ns=

120( 60)
4

N s =1800r . p .m

V ln =120.0089

These values were input in the Matlab program and a slip

sweep from 1 to 0 in steps of .005 were sample in order
to obtain Torque, Current Efficiency and Power Factor in
function of slip.

Page 4

INEL4405: Induction Motor Matlab Model

Graphs

Figure 1: Current vs. Slip, Efficiency vs. Slip, Power Factor vs. Slip,
Torque vs. Slip
Multiple side by side to easily compare different variable at a
single slip.

Page 5

INEL4405: Induction Motor Matlab Model

Figure 2: Current vs. Slip

From the current vs. slip graph we can see that as the slip
increases the current will increase exponentially until it saturates
at 0.3.

Figure 3: Efficiency vs. Slip

Page 6

INEL4405: Induction Motor Matlab Model

It can de observed that the efficiency has a linear trend until it is

near (less than 0.1, to reach its maximum values and drop
suddenly.

Figure 4: Power Factor vs. Slip

Figure 5: Torque vs. Slip

Page 7

INEL4405: Induction Motor Matlab Model

Figure 5 shows a similar beahavier as the efficiency vs. slip graph,

having a negative slope when it reaches its maximum point less
than 0.2s.
Conclusion
This induction motor will have its best performance when it is
operated closely to the synchronous speed due to the fact that at
0 slip the motor does not have a signicative load.

Appendix
Program Code
clear all
close all
prompt = 'What is the V line to line value? ';
V1 = input(prompt);
prompt = 'What is the R1 value? ';
R1 = input(prompt);
prompt = 'What is the R2 value? ';
R2 = input(prompt);
prompt = 'What is the X1 value? ';
X1 = input(prompt);
prompt = 'What is the X2 value? ';
X2 = input(prompt);
prompt = 'What is the Synchronous Speed value? ';
Ns = input(prompt);
prompt = 'What is the Rotational Loss value? ';
Rotloss = input(prompt);

Page 8

INEL4405: Induction Motor Matlab Model

prompt = 'What is the frequency value? ';

f = input(prompt);
slip = 1:-.0001:0;
R3 = R2 * ((1 -slip)./slip);
R = R1 + R2 + R3;
X = X1+X2;
Z = R + 1i*X;
I2 = V1./Z;
Ip = abs(I2);% Current Ip
Pag = 3*R2*(abs(I2).^2)./slip;

Td = (Pag*f)/(Ns*2*pi);% Torque desarrollado

Pd = Pag .* (1-slip);% Power developed
pf = cos(angle(I2));% Power Factor
Pin = 3 * V1 .* Ip .* pf;

Eff = ((Pd - Rotloss)./Pin)*100;% Eficiency

subplot(2,2,1)
plot(slip, Ip)
title('Current vs slip')
set ( gca, 'xdir', 'reverse' )
grid on
subplot(2,2,3)
plot(slip, pf)
title('Powerfactor vs slip')
set ( gca, 'xdir', 'reverse' )
axis([0 1 0 1.5])
grid on
subplot(2,2,4)
plot(slip, Td)
title('Torque vs slip')
set ( gca, 'xdir', 'reverse' )
grid on
subplot(2,2,2)
plot(slip, Eff)

Page 9

INEL4405: Induction Motor Matlab Model

title('Eficiency vs slip')
set ( gca, 'xdir', 'reverse' )
axis([0 1 0 100])
grid on

Page 10