Journal of Electrical & Electronic Systems

Power Quality and Harmonic Analysis in Three Phase Systems

Abstract

Sufyanu A

Problems involving power quality is an often occurrence which comes as nonstandard voltage, frequency or current which result in a complete failure or dysfunction of an end user equipment. Sensitive industrial loads, distribution networks and some very important commercial operation suffer the most from these forms of distortions which may lead an outage which will in turn cost a significant financial loss. With redesigning and restructuring of power systems, the problem involving power quality is going to take a different phase. In developing countries like Nigeria, power frequencies and many other things that determine power quality varies and this will lead to a serious question, it is extremely important to take great steps towards this direction. In order to achieve an acceptable distortion, which is the sole purpose of this thesis by reducing the harmonics as well as improving the overall power quality of the system, three phase filters which filter harmonics were connected in parallel these filters will help in suppressing the higher order harmonics. Variants of Butterworth, Chebyshev and Cauer filters were used in MATLAB SIMULINK. HVDC line was also checked for harmonics and also to correct the overall power factor of the system.