ADVANCED ELECTRICAL POWER QUALITY ANALYSIS

EE 103 M. TECH

Course Objective:
The course aims to:

Introduce to students the concept of power quality problems.

Focus on different kinds of power quality issues and its impact on power system.
Analysis of harmonic distortion.
Power quality Bench Marking.

PREREQUISITES

1. EPQ, Power system, power electronics.

Module-1:

Terms & Definitions: General Classes of Power Quality Problems, Transients, Long
Duration Voltage Variations, Short-Duration Voltage Variations, Voltage Imbalance,
Waveform Distortion, Voltage Fluctuations, Power Frequency Variations, Power Quality
Terms. Source of generation and their impacts on equipment and systems, need of
monitoring, international power quality standards.
Power System Harmonics: Power System Harmonics, Current vs Voltage Harmonics,
Quantifying Harmonic Distortion, Negative effects of Harmonics, Harmonics and Series
Resonant Circuit, Harmonics and Parallel Resonant Circuit, IEEE/IEC standards for
Harmonic Limitation, Harmonic Indices, Inter-harmonics.

Module-2:

Passive Filters: Control of harmonics using passive L-C filters, tuned and de-tuned filters,
their design criterion and implementation.

Active Power Filters: Power factor improvement, reactive power compensation, mitigation
of harmonics and voltage sag compensation using active power filters. Study of various
active power filters viz., static shunt compensators (STATCOM), dynamic voltage restorer
(DVR), unified power quality conditioner (UPQC), etc. Suitability of type of active filters
for mitigation of various power quality problems, Design of active power filters, various
topologies and control schemes.
 Module-3:

DG and Power Quality: DG interface to Utility System, Power Quality Issues, Operating
Conflicts, Interconnection Standards, Power Quality Monitoring.
Power Quality Benchmarking: Benchmarking process, RMS Voltage Varriation Indices,
Harmonic Indices, Sampling Techniques, Definitions of Harmonic Indices, Distributed
Generation and Power Quality, Operating Conflicts.

Text Book(s):

1. Electrical Power Systems Quality By Roger C. Dugan, Mark F. Mcgranaghan,

Surya Santoso & H.Wayne Beaty, 3rd Edition, TMH Education Private Ltd., New
Delhi.

Reference books:

1. Power quality, C. Shankran, CRC Press, 2001.

2. Handbook of power quality, editor: Angelo Baggini, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
3. Title: Power Quality in Electrical Systems by: Alexander Kusko

Publisher: : New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan,
New Delhi, San Juan, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto
Copyright / Pub. Date: 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ISBN: 9780071470759

4. Arindam Ghosh and Gerard Ledwich Power Quality Enhancement Using Custom Power
Devices (Power Electronics and Power Systems), Springer; 2002.
5. Math H. Bollen Understanding Power Quality Problems: Voltage Sags and Interruptions,
Wiley-IEEE Press, 1999.
6. Narain G. Hingorani and Laszlo Gyugy Understanding FACTS: Concepts and Technology of
Flexible AC Transmission Systems, Wiley-IEEE Press, 1999.

Course learning outcomes/expected performance criteria:

1. Learn to distinguish between the various categories of power quality problems.

2. Understand the root of the power quality problems in industry and their impact on
performance and economics.
3. Study the effect of long duration voltage variation.
4. Learn power quality benchmarking and monitoring.