Electric Power Quality, 5 cr

Core content

• Power quality fundamentals, terms and definitions, power quality standards and recommendations, power quality management principles
• Flicker and rapid voltage changes: measurement methods, causes and mitigation methods
• Voltage Dips: characterization, causes, computational evaluation, effects and mitigation
• Harmonics, interharmonics and supraharmonics: measurement methods, causes and effects, resonant effects
• Power concepts and reactive power: causes and management, active and passive solutions for reactive power compensation and filtering
• Power supply interruptions: monitoring and statistics, causes, mitigation
• Electric and magnetic fields: basic theory, measurement and assessment, effects and mitigation methods
• Measurement and monitoring of power quality: basic theory (sensors, sampling and quantizing the sensor signals), hardware and software tools used in power quality investigations and assessment, utilization of power quality data