Power quality issues with medical electronics equipment in hospitals

Author

Rao, Uma ; Singh, S.N. ; Thakur, Chandan Kumar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Jamshedpur, India

fYear

2010

fDate

27-29 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

38

Abstract

This paper describes power quality audits conducted at hospitals in India. Voltage, current and power measured at various points were used to assess the quality of the power. The main power quality problems found in hospitals were voltage flicker, neutral currents, and harmonic distortion (THD) value. Measurement, analysis and conditioning of power quality has been studied in few different hospitals as a case study. Recommendation have been made to mitigate the issue.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; electric current measurement; hospitals; power measurement; power supply quality; voltage measurement; current measurement; harmonic distortion; hospital equipment; medical electronics equipment; neutral currents; power measurement; power quality; voltage flicker; voltage measurement; Conferences; Electronic equipment; Hospitals; Industrial electronics; Power quality; Service robots; Flickering; Neutral Current; Power quality; Total Harmonic Distortions; harmonic distortion; voltage disturbances;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, Control & Robotics (IECR), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Orissa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8544-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECR.2010.5720150

Filename

5720150