Research Article

Cosine-Trapezoidal Soft-Starting Control Strategy for a Belt Conveyor

Table 4

Energy consumption and power of the different soft-starting control strategies.

Control strategyComparison content
Energy consumption/kJPower/kW
No loadFull loadNo loadFull load

Sinusoidal5453.16078.1138.9154.9
Triangle71258125142.5162.5
Parabolic5562.56562.5148.3175
Cosine-trapezoidal (N=2)4637.25636.7154.6187.9