Simulation of electric arc furnace characteristics for voltage flicker study using MATLAB

Author

Bhonsle, D.C. ; Kelkar, R.B.

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Gujarat Technol. Univ., Surat, India

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

181

Abstract

Power quality is becoming a more concern of today´s power system engineer due to the rapid growth of non-linear loads, such as power electronic control equipments and electric arc furnace (EAF). Harmonics and voltage flicker are the power quality problems which are introduced to the power system as result of non-linear behavior of the electric arc furnace operation. Electric arc furnace model is needed to analyze the power quality. There are numbers of arc furnace models. This paper presents a time domain model called exponential-hyperbolic for electric arc furnace using MATLAB. The model is used to study its behavior on the power system using MATLAB. To analyze the method, several characteristics for different operating conditions are investigated.

Keywords

arc furnaces; flicker noise; power supply quality; MATLAB; electric arc furnace characteristics; exponential-hyperbolic; power electronic control equipments; power quality; time domain model; voltage flicker; Equations; Furnaces; Load modeling; MATLAB; Mathematical model; Reactive power; Voltage fluctuations; EAF; MATLAB; Power quality; flicker;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advancements in Electrical, Electronics and Control Engineering (ICONRAEeCE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sivakasi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2146-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICONRAEeCE.2011.6129773

Filename

6129773