POWER QUALITY

PRESENTED BY
SREE VAISHNAVI VEMURU
11109B089

 Origin

of short interruptions

Voltage

variations

Monitoring

of short interruptions

 An

interruption occurs when the

supply voltage or

load

current decreases to less than

0.1 pu for a period of time not
exceeding 1 min.

 Interruptions

can be the result :

scheduled, the customers are announced
before doing any programmed actions into
the distribution network
accidentals, caused by the permanents or
temporary faults, generally produced by
external events, equipments faults etc.
power system faults
equipment failures, control system
malfunctions
Delayed reclosing of the protective device
may cause a momentary or temporary
interruption.

Voltage variations
Only

duration is measured since the

voltage magnitude is
always less than 10% of nominal
The duration is determined by utility
protective devices and the particular
event that is causing the fault.
The duration of the interruption will
depend on the reclosing capability of
the protective device.

Power Quality Monitoring

. Power quality monitoring is the process of
gathering, analyzing, and interpreting raw
measurement data into useful information
The process of gathering data is usually carried out
by continuous measurement of voltage and current
over an extended period.
The process of analysis and interpretation has been
traditionally performed manually, but recent
advances in signal processing and artificial
intelligence fields have made it possible to design
and implement intelligent systems to automatically
analyze and interpret raw data into useful
information with minimum human intervention.

Monitoring objectives
1.

Nature of the problems (data loss, nuisance trips,

component failures, control system malfunctions, etc.)
2. Characteristics of the sensitive equipment
experiencing problems (equipment design information
or at least application guide information)
3. The times at which problems occur
4. Coincident problems or known operations (e.g.,
capacitor switching)
that occur at the same time
5. Possible sources of power quality variations within
the facility (motor starting, capacitor switching, power
electronic equipment operation, arcing equipment,
etc.)
6. Existing power conditioning equipment being used

Thank

you