Title :
Assessing the benefits and risks of application of inverter drives in industry
Author :
Leonowicz, Zbigniew ; Lempart, Andrzej
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng., Wroclaw Univ. of Technol., Wroclaw, Poland
Abstract :
This paper presents the impact assessment of converters installed in an industrial plant on the power quality in internal power grid of the plant. The analysis of real measurements showed that the installation of inverter drives, despite many benefits, as energy savings, that have been reported in the paper, can also cause many problems. We observed multiple issues related to failures in the control and automation systems that could be due to the interference generated by simultaneous operation of inverter drives.
Keywords :
electric drives; energy conservation; failure analysis; industrial plants; interference suppression; invertors; power convertors; power grids; power supply quality; power system measurement; risk analysis; automation system; benefits; converter impact assessment; energy saving; failure analysis; industrial plant; interference; inverter drive; power grid; power quality; power system measurement; risk analysis; Control systems; Harmonic analysis; Inverters; Power harmonic filters; Power quality; Voltage fluctuations; converter drives; electric power drives; harmonic distortion; power quality;
Conference_Titel :
Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2012 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1830-4
DOI :
10.1109/EEEIC.2012.6221562
