On-line correction of errors introduced by instrument transformers in transmission-level steady-state waveform measurements

The successful implementation of a transmission level harmonic measurement system requires accurate and reliable measurement of harmonic voltages and currents. Existing substation instrument transformers are designed for 60 Hz measurements and they have been shown to cause resonance errors in the measurements. In this paper, we propose an on-line error correction method to correct for these resonance errors as well as possible saturation errors. The error correction is formulated as an output tracking problem where the distorted measurements are used along with the experimentally developed transformer model to reconstruct the transformer input. The method is generic, thereby permitting its use with any measurement system that utilizes a transducer with nonideal properties. It is also cost effective since it can be implemented on a personal computer or a digital signal processing chip