Power Quality Issues and Solutions – Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Mikkili ◽  
Anup Kumar Panda
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Quality Issues

Abstract Electrical power quality has been an important and growing problem because of the proliferation of nonlinear loads such as power electronic converters in typical power distribution systems in recent years. Particularly, voltage harmonics and power distribution equipment problems result from current harmonics produced by nonlinear loads. The Electronic equipment like, computers, battery chargers, electronic ballasts, variable frequency drives, and switch mode power supplies, generate perilous harmonics and cause enormous economic loss every year. Problems caused by power quality have great adverse economic impact on the utilities and customers. Due to that both power suppliers and power consumers are concerned about the power quality problems and compensation techniques. Power quality has become more and more serious with each passing day. As a result active power filter gains much more attention due to excellent harmonic and reactive power compensation in two-wire (single phase), three-wire (three-phase without neutral), and four-wire (three-phase with neutral) ac power networks with nonlinear loads. However, this is still a technology under development, and many new contributions and new control topologies have been reported in the last few years. It is aimed at providing a broad perspective on the status of APF technology to the researchers and application engineers dealing with power quality issues.

Unit Template Based Control of PV-DSTATCOM

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Gunjan Varshney ◽  
Durg S. Chauhan ◽  
Madhukar P. Dave ◽  
Nitin
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Phase Distribution ◽  
Voltage Regulation ◽  
Photovoltaic Array ◽  
Quality Issues ◽  
Static Compensator

Background: In modern electrical power distribution systems, Power Quality has become an important concern due to the escalating use of automatic, microprocessor and microcontroller based end user applications. Methods: In this paper, power quality improvement has done using Photovoltaic based Distribution Static Compensator (PV-DSTATCOM). Complete simulation modelling and control of Photovoltaic based Distribution Static Compensator have been provided in the presented paper. In this configuration, DSTATCOM is fed by solar photovoltaic array and PV module is also helpful to maintain the DC link voltage. The switching of PV-STATCOM is controlled by Unit template based control theory. Results: The performance of PV-DSTATCOM has been evaluated for Unity Power Factor (UPF) and AC Voltage Control (ACVC) modes. Here, for studying the power quality issues three-phase distribution system is considered and results have been verified through simulation based on MATLAB software. Conclusion: Different power quality issues and their improvement are studied and presented here for harmonic reduction, DC voltage regulation and power factor correction.

scholarly journals MODELING AND SIMULATION OF STATCOM FOR POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-229
Author(s):  
Ch. Umamaheswararao, Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Voltage Profile ◽  
Inductive Load ◽  
Linear Load ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Quality Aspects ◽  
Wide Range

In power system, reactive power compensation is one of the important action to maintain better voltage profile, stability and decrease losses. STATCOM is feasible in terms of cost effective in wide range of problem solving capabilities among all Flexible AC Transmission system (FACTS) in both transmission and distribution levels. In this paper the synchronous rotating frame theory algorithm is used since it is easy to implement i.e. the rotating three phase quantities are converted into stationary components. So it requires less number of PI controllers and also calculations on the stationary quantities are easy than to do calculations on instantaneous quantities and the modeling of STATCOM is done.  This project focuses on improvement of power quality in a three phase three wire system with a non-linear load i.e., three phase bridge rectifier and a parallel inductive load. Some power quality aspects like reactive power compensation of linear load, better Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) performance and the power factor improvement are achieved. The result shows the THD of input current achieved as per the IEEE 519-1992 standard. It is observed that STATCOM gives effective compensation for reactive power variation and hence the power quality of distribution systems improved.

scholarly journals DSTATCOM Performance for Voltage Sag/swell Mitigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-74
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Power Transmission ◽  
Control Technique ◽  
Power Distribution System ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Voltage Compensation

The Indian economy has been growing at a fast pace since the beginning of this millennium. Due to constraints in the availability of fuel and environmental concerns, the power generation sector has not kept pace with other industrial sectors. One way of increasing the power availability is by reducing the high losses in the existing power transmission and distribution systems. The current increases in the motor windings when the voltages in the three phases are unbalanced. Compensation for reactive power and unbalance in the power distribution system are key factors in improving the power quality to the end user. A Distributed Static Compensator [DSTATCOM] is a custom power device, which is connected in shunt with the load in the distribution system to compensate the reactive power due unbalanced loads. The performance of the DSTATCOM is based on the control technique used for finding the voltage referred and current components to be considered. Voltage compensation is defined as the error in voltage in the grid and that the value of voltage that has to be induced in the grid. This is analyzed by using DSTATCOM for voltage compensation with series converter controller block. This paper gives the simulation of voltage compensation to rectify the issue of voltage swell/sag in order to improve the power quality in the distribution system.

scholarly journals Impact of Harmonics on Power Quality and Losses in Power Distribution Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 166 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jawad Ghorbani ◽  
Hossein Mokhtari
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Equivalent Model ◽  
Power Distribution Systems ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Distribution Feeder ◽  
The Impact

This paper investigates the harmonic distortion and losses in power distribution systems due to the dramatic increase of nonlinear loads. This paper tries to determine the amount of the harmonics generated by nonlinear loads in residential, commercial and office loads in distribution feeders and estimates the energy losses due to these harmonics. Norton equivalent modeling technique has been used to model the nonlinear loads. The presented harmonic Norton equivalent models of the end user appliances are accurately obtained based on the experimental data taken from the laboratory measurements. A 20 kV/400V distribution feeder is simulated to analyze the impact of nonlinear loads on feeder harmonic distortion level and losses. The model follows a “bottom-up” approach, starting from end users appliances Norton equivalent model and then modeling residential, commercial and office loads. Two new indices are introduced by the authors to quantize the effect of each nonlinear appliance on the power quality of a distribution feeder and loads are ranked based on these new defined indices. The simulation results show that harmonic distortion in distribution systems can increase power losses up to 20%.

scholarly journals Multilevel diode clamped D-Statcom for power quality improvement in distribution systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Jasti Venkata Ramesh Babu ◽  
Malligunta Kiran Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Reference Signal ◽  
Power Distribution System ◽  
Received Power ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Result Analysis

Power quality is one big issue in power system and a big challenge for power engineers today. Electrical consumers (or otherwise load devices) expect electrical power received power should be of first-class. Bad quality in electrical power directs to fuse blowing, machine overheating, increase in distribution losses, damage to sensitive load devices and many more. DSTATCOM is one of the FACTS controllers designed to improve the quality in electrical power and thus improving the performance of distribution system. This paper presents a multilevel DSTATCOM topology to enhance power quality in power distribution system delivering high-quality power to the customer load devices. Diode-clamped structure is employed for multi-level DSTATCOM structure. ‘PQ’ based control strategy generates reference signal which is further processed through level-shifted multi-carrier PWM strategy for the generation of gate pulses to multi-level DSTATCOM structure. Simulation work of proposed system is developed and the result analysis is presented using MATLAB/SIMULINK software. Performance of multi-level DSTATCOM topology is verified with fixed and variable loads.

Modelling and Analysis of PV-Based Shunt Active Filter with BESS and Conservative Power Theory for Enhancing Power Quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gomathi Ramalingam ◽  
Ajay Kumar Choudhary ◽  
Suresh Mikkili
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Active Power ◽  
Active Filters ◽  
Shunt Active Filter ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Quality Issues ◽  
Conservative Power Theory ◽  
Conservative Power

Abstract Power Quality has always been a major concern ever since the increase in the usage of many power electronic loads such as Personal Computers (PCs), TVs, variable frequency drives in nearly every household. These loads are a major source of harmonics into the distribution system. Unbalanced Three-phase loads or different single-phase loads result in unbalance in the three-phase voltages and currents in the grid. Equipment damage, Loss of data, nuisance tripping, overheating of wires, relay tripping are few of the major issues caused due to power quality. Also, there is an increase in the awareness about the various power quality issues as well as its ill-effects amongst the consumers. Hence, it is essential to improve the quality of the power supplied. Active and Passive filters play a huge role in the mitigation of power quality issues. In recent years, usage of active filters has increased because tuning is possible for various harmonic elimination and active filters when combined with a storage system can provide active as well as reactive power compensation. The fast depletion of non-renewable sources of energy and its effect on the environment has shifted the focus on the usage of non-renewable energy sources such as solar energy, wind energy, etc for the production of electricity. In this research work, solar energy is combined with shunt active filter for the mitigation of various power quality issues occurring in a grid-connected non-linear and unbalanced three-phase load. The active power filter will provide reactive power compensation to the non-linear load and active power delivery for unbalanced loads such the grid current and voltage will remain balanced and the stress on the grid is reduced while meeting the load demand. A battery system is also integrated to store the excess energy that may be generated by the Photo-Voltaic(PV) array and acts as a source of energy when PV array output is low or nil. Conservative Power Theory is used for controlling the power injection into the system by the Voltage Source Converter(VSC). The proposed system is verified using MATLAB/SIMULINK.

scholarly journals Improvement of Power Quality using DVR by Different Control Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 7366-7369
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Power Quality ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Controller ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Dynamic Voltage Restorer ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Dynamic Voltage

Power quality has been an issue in electrical power systems. Disturbances occur in power quality which effects machines, some electric devices and severe cause will get very serious damages. For normal and efficient operation it’s necessary to compensate and acknowledge every type of the disturbances at earlier time of the power system. Many sorts of Custom Power Devices (CPD’s) are used to resolve these issues .Here at present, one in every of those devices, Dynamic Voltage restorer (DVR) is conferred. In power distribution systems this is often best and effective device employed. During this project new structure and control methodology of multifunctional DVRs for voltage quality correction are mentioned. Proportional Integral Controller and Fuzzy Logic Controller are used for the PQ improvement. The performance of the device and Total Harmonic Distortion is compared with each other. The performance of the device like voltage swell, sag is projected.

scholarly journals Voltage Sag, Voltage Swell and Harmonics Reduction Using Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) Under Nonlinear Loads

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-150
Author(s):  
Ahmed Qasim ◽  
Fadhil Tahir ◽  
Ahmed Alsammak
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Unit Vector ◽  
Voltage Sag ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Voltage Swell

In light of the widespread usage of power electronics devices, power quality (PQ) has become an increasingly essential factor. Due to nonlinear characteristics, the power electronic devices produce harmonics and consume lag current from the utility. The UPQC is a device that compensates for harmonics and reactive power while also reducing problems related to voltage and current. In this work, a three-phase, three-wire UPQC is suggested to reduce voltage-sag, voltage-swell, voltage and current harmonics. The UPQC is composed of shunt and series Active Power Filters (APFs) that are controlled utilizing the Unit Vector Template Generation (UVTG) technique. Under nonlinear loads, the suggested UPQC system can be improved PQ at the point of common coupling (PCC) in power distribution networks. The simulation results show that UPQC reduces the effect of supply voltage changes and harmonic currents on the power line under nonlinear loads, where the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of load voltages and source currents obtained are less than 5%, according to the IEEE-519 standard.

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