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Power Quality Introduction

This document provides an introduction to power quality and discusses issues related to voltage quality. It defines power quality as deviations from the ideal supply parameters of constant frequency, magnitude, and sinusoidal waveform. Power quality is impacted by the compatibility between supply systems and loads. Modern electronics have low tolerance for disturbances. Key power quality issues include voltage variations, harmonics, imbalance, and transients from events like faults and lightning. Standards like IEC 61000 and IEEE 519 provide definitions and limits. Analyzing power quality involves measuring problems, identifying solutions, modeling and simulation, and economic evaluation of alternatives. The course outline covers topics like transients, voltage fluctuations, harmonics, and simulation tools.

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Power Quality Introduction

This document provides an introduction to power quality and discusses issues related to voltage quality. It defines power quality as deviations from the ideal supply parameters of constant frequency, magnitude, and sinusoidal waveform. Power quality is impacted by the compatibility between supply systems and loads. Modern electronics have low tolerance for disturbances. Key power quality issues include voltage variations, harmonics, imbalance, and transients from events like faults and lightning. Standards like IEC 61000 and IEEE 519 provide definitions and limits. Analyzing power quality involves measuring problems, identifying solutions, modeling and simulation, and economic evaluation of alternatives. The course outline covers topics like transients, voltage fluctuations, harmonics, and simulation tools.

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Power Quality –

A Brief Introduction
Assoc. Prof. Chen Shiun
PQ Analysis & Enhancement
Centre for Advanced Power Electronics
Nanyang Technological University
Power Quality Definition
 Traditionally, Quality  Reliability
– Preoccupied with supply availability / continuity
 Today’s context,
Power Quality  Voltage Quality
 Power quality deficiencies – manifolds
– Any deviation from the ideal supply,
 Constant frequency at 50/60 Hz nominal
 Constant magnitude at system nominal value
 Perfectly sinusoidal

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Power Quality Compatibility
 Compatibility issue between supply system
and loads
– If the system is of sufficient quality to allow
proper operation of loads
– If the load is well-behaved, not causing any
disturbance / distortion that may affect others
 System performance vs. load tolerance
 System strength vs. load influence

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Power Quality and Electronics
 Power quality phenomena are not new
 Limited / confined impacts in the past
– Early power equipment was designed to be robust, able
to withstand many disturbances
 Becomes problematic in today’s system
– Today’s abundant (increasing) use of semiconductors
that have low tolerance towards many disturbances
– Too costly to design with similar robustness
 Victim: sensitive to voltage variations & transients
 Culprit: produce harmonic distortions & high-
frequency interferences

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Power Quality Issues
 Voltage quality
– Over-voltage transients
– Voltage variations – dips, swells & interruptions
– Voltage fluctuation – flicker
– Harmonic distortions / notches
– Voltage imbalance
 System designs
– Leakage current
– Insufficient neutral conductor
– Improper grounding

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Power Quality Standards
 IEC and IEEE standards
– IEC 61000-x-x series
 Definitions, environments, limits, measurements, etc.
– IEEE 1159: IEEE Recommended Practice for Monitoring
Electric Power Quality
– IEEE 519: IEEE Recommended Practices and
Requirements for Harmonic Control in Electrical Power
Systems
 Others specific to certain industry
– CBEMA / ITIC for computers and IT equipment
– SEMI F47 for semiconductor manufacturing
– In progress for automobile manufacturing

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Power Quality Evaluation
 Identify problem category
 Problem characterization
– Measurements: causes, characteristics, impacts
 Identify range of solutions
– Equipment design; Customer interface; Utility
transmission/distribution system
 Evaluate solutions
– Modeling and simulations
 Optimum solution
– Economic evaluation (costs/benefits) of alternatives

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Time frame of PQ Phenomena
Electromagnetic transient modeling and simulation Operator actions
LFC
Prime mover control
Protection
Generator control
HVDC, FACTS, etc.

Frequency Daily load variation


variations
Tie-line regulation

Long term dynamics


Long-duration variations
Transient stability
Short-duration variations
Subsynchronous resonance
Oscillatory transients
Switching Voltage fluctuations
Impulsive transients
Lightning Imbalance, harmonics, inter-harmonics, notching, noise

10-7 10-5 10-3 10-1 101 103 105


Timescale (seconds) 1 cycle 1 sec 1 min 1 hr 1 day
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Course outline
 Fri. am: PSCAD Introduction
– Fundamental of electromagnetic transient modeling and simulations
– Hand on tutorials
 Fri. pm: Transients, voltage variations, fluctuations
– Lightning, fault & switching transients
– Dips, swells & interruptions
– Flicker evaluation, arc furnace model
 Sat. am: Harmonics, imbalance, others
– Synchronous machines
– FACTS
– Distributed generations

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