Measurement and characterization of harmonic and high frequency distortion for a large industrial load

Author

Girgis, Adly A. ; Clapp, Michael C. ; Makram, Elham B. ; Qiu, Jun ; Dalton, John G. ; Catoe, Ray C., Jr.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clemson Univ., SC, USA

Volume

5

Issue

1

fYear

1990

fDate

1/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

427

Lastpage

434

Abstract

A software package is described that was developed to perform harmonic analysis on digitized current and voltage waveforms. The authors also report on the measurement and characterization of voltage and current harmonics and high-frequency distortion of a large industrial load. Since waveform distortions often include periodic high-frequency transients, special signal processing techniques were developed in the software to alleviate misleading results of the calculated harmonics. From simultaneous measurements on all three phases, an investigation of harmonic unbalance at the industrial load is discussed. Problems with the installation of a capacitor bank for voltage regulation purposes are also described

Keywords

electric distortion measurement; harmonic analysis; load (electric); power engineering computing; HF distortion measurement; capacitor bank; current harmonics; digitized current waveforms; digitized voltage waveforms; harmonic analysis; industrial load; signal processing techniques; software package; voltage harmonics; voltage regulation; Capacitors; Current measurement; Distortion measurement; Frequency measurement; Harmonic analysis; Harmonic distortion; Phase measurement; Signal processing; Software packages; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/61.107308

Filename

107308