The term ‘power quality’ [1-2] refers to the purity of the voltage and current wave-form, and a power quality disturbance is a deviation from the pure sinusoidal form. Harmonics superimposed on the fundamental are one cause of such deviations. Power quality problems [1-2] like voltage harmonics, voltage flickers, voltage sags and voltage swells, current harmonics, current unbalance, reactive cu...

When the harmonic spectrum is known, or at least can be measured with a certain reliability or predicted, the additional losses can be easily calculated. The process of calculation should be made through the following steps: 1. Determination of all the components of additional losses due to the presence of harmonics. 2. Determination of the harmonic spectrum, either by measurement or by estimat...

Nowadays with increasing use of numerous nonlinear loads, voltage and current harmonics in power systems are one of the most important problems power engineers encounter. Many of these nonlinear loads, because of their dynamic natures, inject time-varying harmonics into power system. Common techniques applied for harmonics measurement and assessment such as FFT have significant errors in presen...

Integration of the PV into the electrical grid needs power electronic interface. This power electronic interface should have some key features and should come up with grid codes. One of the important criteria is the quality and harmonic contents of the current being injected to the grid. High-order harmonics of the grid current should be very limited (lower than 0.3% of the fundamental current)...

In this manuscript, the author has tried to analyze a study of Variable Frequency Drives. Variable frequency drives are energy saving drives. But they generate harmonics generates. Harmonics introduced by any means affect the performance parameters of any system The presence of harmonics is the system for a long duration & that, too, of higher order affect the various parameters in a Power dist...

Jussi Karttunen Current Harmonic Compensation in Dual Three-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Lappeenranta 2017 80 pages Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis 751 Diss. Lappeenranta University of Technology ISBN 978-952-335-097-7, ISBN 978-952-335-098-4 (PDF) ISSN-L 1456-4491, ISSN 1456-4491 Dual three-phase electric machines can bring significant benefits over conventional threephase ...

Thyristor rectifiers are widely used in electric railways in order to control the speed. As a consequence of their usage in addition to substantial input lead current, an enormous amount of harmonics is injected into the grid. To avoid such harmonics as well as reactive power compensation, reactive power hybrid filters consisting of active and passive filters are utilized. Regarding different p...

This paper presents an innovative active power filter design method to simultaneously compensate the current harmonics and reactive power of a nonlinear load. The power filter integrates a passive power filter which is a RL low-pass filter placed in series with the load, and an active power filter which comprises an RL in series with an IGBT based voltage source converter. The filter is assumed...