ac railway traction loads are usually huge single phase loads. as a result, a significant amount of negative sequence current (nsc) is injected into utility grid. moreover, harmonics and consumption ofreactive power are further power quality problems that the supply network is encountering. in this paper, acompensation strategy with the aid of railway power conditioner (rpc) is proposed to over...

this paper presents a novel method to calculate the reference source current and the referencecompensating current for shunt active power filters (sapfs). this method first calculates theamplitude and phase of the fundamental load current from a recursive algebraic approach blockbefore calculating the displacement power factor. next, the amplitude of the reference mains currentis computed with ...

AC railway traction loads are usually huge single phase loads. As a result, a significant amount of Negative Sequence Current (NSC) is injected into utility grid. Moreover, harmonics and consumption ofreactive power are further power quality problems that the supply network is encountering. In this paper, acompensation strategy with the aid of Railway Power Conditioner (RPC) is proposed to over...

Voltage sags are one of the most concerned power quality events in the modern power systems as they often lead to tripping or mis-operation of the customer equipment. The coordination study between the system and the equipment helps alleviate such nuisances. This paper describes new software developments aimed at automated voltage sag characterization and equipment behavior analysis. The propos...

Quality of power is becoming a very important requirement in the new, deregulated and restructured power industry [1]. The importance is associated both with a need to have a “cleaner” power delivery due to a variety of sensitive loads and with a goal to provide a premium service to gain a competitive edge. A major part of achieving higher quality of power is the ability for assessing the quali...

Power Quality issues associated with isolated, transportation, stand alone, or decentralized power systems are becoming more complex and requiring additional consideration as more advanced generation and load-control led techniques are utilized. Due to the typically low inertia and short-circuit levels, frequency/voltage variations, unbalances and harmonics tend to be amplified. These systems a...

An UPQC (Unified Power Quality Conditioner) is anequipment composed by two active conditioners operating in a combined way. One of the active conditioners is connected in series with the electrical power system, allowing the compensation of problems in the system voltages. The other active conditioner is connected in parallel with the electrical system, and allows the compensation of current ha...

Solar power and wind are the most promising distributed energy sources. The photovoltaic system has attracted significant attention in recent years. Although their benefits are numerous, they are known to create power quality issues, because of the power electronic converters they use. This paper investigates if there is a possibility to improve power quality only by connecting a solar photovol...