Power Quality: The Key to Successful Delivery of Quality Product and Operation in Industry

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Power quality (PQ) is the key to successful delivery of quality product and operation in industry. Both electric utilities and end users of electrical power are becoming increasingly concerned about the quality of electric power. The term power quality has become one of the most prolific buzzword in the power industry since from the late 1980s.power quality may also be defined as the degree to which both the utilization and delivery of electric power effects the performance of the electrical equipment. It is now even more critical to the industry because of increasing application of electronic loads and electronic controllers which are sensitive to the quality of power supplied.
In order to meet PQ standard limits, it may be necessary to include some sort of compensation. Modern solutions can be found in the form of active rectification or active filtering. A shunt active power filter is suitable for the suppression of negative load influence on the supply network, but if there are supply voltage imperfections, a series active power filter may be needed to provide full compensation.
Conventionally, passive LC filters and fixed compensating devices with some degree of variation like Thyristor switched capacitors, Thyristor switched reactors were employed to improve the power factor of A.C. loads. Such devices have the demerits of fixed compensation, large size, ageing and resonance. Nowadays equipments using power semiconductor devices, generally known as active power filters (APF's), Active Power Line Conditioners (APLC's) etc. are used for the power quality issues due to their dynamic and adjustable solutions.
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Standard IEEE1100 defines power quality...

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...wer distribution system more healthy, the Multi converter unified power quality conditioner(MC-UPQC) is one of the best solutions [11]–[17]
The objective of this project is to understand the modeling and analysis of a shunt active power filter. In doing so, the accuracy of current compensation for current harmonics found at a nonlinear load, for the PQ theory control technique is supported and also substantiates the reliability and effectiveness of this model for integration into a power system network. The model is implemented across a two bus network including generation to the application of the nonlinear load.
The aim of the system simulation is to verify the active filters effectiveness for a nonlinear load. In simulation, total harmonic distortion measurements are undertaken along with a variety of waveforms and the results are justified accordingly.

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