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NEW POWER QUALITY INDICES

NEW POWER QUALITY INDICES. Z bigniew LEONOWICZ Department of Electrical Engineering Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. The Seventh IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems , EuroPES 2007 August 29 – 31, 2007 , P alma de Mallorca, Spain. Contents of presentation.

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NEW POWER QUALITY INDICES

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  1. NEW POWER QUALITY INDICES Zbigniew LEONOWICZ Department of Electrical Engineering Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland The Seventh IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, EuroPES 2007 August 29 – 31, 2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

  2. Contents of presentation • Motivations for applying parametric spectral analysis in electrical power engineering • Power quality assessment - IEC groups • Performance of applied tools • The ESPRIT & MUSIC methods • Results of investigations • Conclusions

  3. Motivations • The quality of voltage waveforms is nowadays an issue of the utmost importance for power utilities, electric energy consumers and also for the manufactures of electric and electronic equipment. The proliferation of nonlinear loads connected to power systems has triggered a growing concern with power quality issues. • The inherent operation characteristics of these loads deteriorate the quality of the delivered energy, and increase the energy losses as well as decrease the reliability of a power system.

  4. Motivations • Methods of power quality assessment in power systems are almost exclusively based on Fourier Transform, which has many limitations. • Parametric spectral methods, such as ESPRIT or MUSIC do not suffer from inherent limitations of resolution or dependence of estimation error on the window length (phase dependence of the estimation error) of FFT. • The authors argue that the use of high-resolution spectrum estimation methods instead of Fourier-based techniques can improve the accuracy of measurement of spectral parameters of distorted waveforms encountered in power systems, in particular the estimation of the power quality indices.

  5. IEC groups & subgroups • Amplitudes

  6. Progressive average of the harmonic subgroups of currents and voltages Fifth harmonic subgroup of the voltage

  7. Results

  8. Results of calculation of PQ indices

  9. Basic performance characteristics CC – computational cost AC – accuracy RF – risk of false estimates

  10. Harmonic decomposition methods • MUSIC (MultipleSignalClassification) method • MUSIC pseudospectrum

  11. Harmonic decomposition methods • ESPRIT method A waveform can be approximated by: Two selector matrices shift invariance between discrete time series parameters in :

  12. Performance of MUSIC and ESPRIT • MUSIC uses the noise subspace to estimate the signal components • ESPRIT uses the signal subspace. • Several experiments with simulated, stochastic signals were performed, in order to compare performance aspects of both parametric methods MUSIC and ESPRIT. Testing signal is designed to belong to a class of waveforms most often present in power systems. Each run of spectrum and power estimation is repeated many times (Monte Carlo approach) and the mean--square error (MSE) is computed.

  13. Error of estimation

  14. Results of error comparison • Problem of masking of the higher low–amplitude harmonicscomponents by a strong fundamental component wasinvestigated. • The results show an extremely high maskingeffect in the case of power spectrum, while MUSIC andESPRIT methods show very little dependence (almost nodependence in the case of ESPRIT method). • This is a veryimportant feature which partially explains excellent performanceof parametric methods in the task of calculationof power quality indices.

  15. Conclusions • In practical applications, one of the most important questions concerns the optimal choice of analysis methods when taking into account known parameters of the signal and limitations of the chosen analysis technique. • Performance comparison showed that both parametric methods show similar values of accuracy wich greatly outperform the accuracy of FFT–based non–parametric method. • Parametric methods show almost complete immunity to masking effect, to variable initial phase of harmonic components and to many other deficiencies off FFT–based techniques, as shown in the relevant literature.

  16. Conclusions • For all results presented previously, it can be seenthat the use of ESPRIT method for calculationof power quality indices offers reduction of the error ofestimation of harmonic subgroups by 53% and the use ofMUSIC method reduces the error by 49%, when comparing toSTFT (FFT–based method). • Even higher gains in accuracy can be achieved when analyzing waveforms with high inter/sub–harmonic contents.

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