IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/uersmp/320535.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Effects of Oversized Motors on Power Costs in Ginning Cotton

Author

Listed:
  • Wilmot, Charles A.
  • Alberson, David M.

Abstract

Excerpts from the report: A study of southwestern cotton gins during the 1961-62 season revealed that there were wide variations but general excesses in total connected loads among gins. The average operating load ranged from 77 to 85 percent of average connected load among the three specific areas studied. Likewise, in a 1962-63 study of gins in Mississippi, average operating load was found to be approximately 80 percent of average connected load. Since unused capacity in electric motors means unnecessarily high initial costs and continually higher operating costs, the present study was initiated to: (1) Determine the extent of, reasons for, and effects of overmotoring in cotton gins; (2) ascertain the interrelationships between overmotoring and power costs; (3) develop a simplified means by which individual ginners can measure actual power requirements and determine power factors; and (4) determine the means and advisability of correcting overmotoring and low power factors in cotton gins, and the economic benefits to be derived.

Suggested Citation

  • Wilmot, Charles A. & Alberson, David M., 1964. "Effects of Oversized Motors on Power Costs in Ginning Cotton," Miscellaneous Publications 320535, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersmp:320535
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.320535
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/320535/files/ERS-203.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.320535?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Cable, C. Curtis, Jr., 1966. "Marketing Cotton and Cotton Textiles," Miscellaneous Publications 321049, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:uersmp:320535. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ersgvus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.