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Abstract—A novel methodology is presented in this paper for a convenient way to extend the power quality indices used in
conducting transient and steady-state analysis of electric networks steady-state applications to encompass transient responses. A
containing nonlinearities and switching plants components. The simple three-phase circuit, with tuned filters, is used to derive
method is termed the extended harmonic domain (EHD) method as
may be seen as an extension of the harmonic domain (HD) method “physical” harmonic currents, as opposed to those derived
used in steady-state analysis. It is shown in the paper that EHD is a using Fourier analysis. The “physical” harmonics are compared
natural approach for conducting dynamic and steady-state studies against those derived using the EHD method. A three-phase
of the evolution of harmonics in power circuits containing non- circuit containing a STATCOM is also solved in EHD, and this
linear components and flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS) example is used to calculate power quality dynamic indices.
devices. It is also shown in the paper that EHD provides a suitable
basis for extending the well-known steady-state power quality in-
dices to the transient range. To illustrate the use of the theory, a II. APPROXIMATION OF OPERATORS
three-phase linear circuit and a three-phase PWM-STATCOM are
modeled using EHD. The results are compared against those pro- The main idea behind the approximation of operators is that
vided by industry standard tools as PSCAD/EMTDC and Matlab. a function , can be approximated in the interval ,
to arbitrary accuracy, by the Fourier series [1]–[3]
Index Terms—Extended harmonic domain, Fourier series, har-
monic domain, linear time periodic systems, switching functions,
transient and harmonic analysis. (1)
where the operational matrix of differentiation is defined as Using the terminology described in Section II, (7) is amenable
to an alternative representation, which is more useful for as-
sessing system properties
where
..
. Dropping the coefficients yields a more compact state
space equation
..
. (8)
(10)
(11)
(a)
Fig. 4(c) shows the angles of the fundamental and third har-
monic current obtained with the EHD and WFFT methods. Key
observations can be derived from these results: i) the use of the
WFFT transform gives rise to a misleading harmonic spectrum;
ii) the fundamental and third harmonic currents derived with
both techniques show quite a different dynamic evolution; iii)
the angle of the fundamental and third harmonic current using
WFFT shows a very substantial mismatch when compared to
the result using the EHD method.
The EHD and the FFT methods take quite a different ap-
proach to solving the dynamic evolution of harmonics. The dif-
(b)
ference lies mainly in the fact that the EHD is a direct method
to solve dynamic systems and the FFT is not. Additional advan-
tages of the EHD over the FFT technique is that does not have
problems with window size selection, edge phenomenon, and
aliasing.
(a)
(12)
(b)
where , , and are the switching functions of the PWM
converter.
If the voltage source inverter is assumed to be a power in-
variant circuit, the instantaneous power flowing from the dc to
the ac side may be expressed as
(13)
Use of (12) in (13) yields an expression for
(14)
Also, the current may be written in terms of the dynamic
equation of the capacitor
(15)
The voltage drop across the three-phase impedance of the
STATCOM circuit in Fig. 5 is
(c)
Fig. 4. Comparison of the harmonics using WFFT and EHD.
(17)
C. Case Study
To test the theory presented in this paper, a three-phase,
PWM-controlled STATCOM has been chosen. The PWM
strategy was selected to eliminate the fifth, seventh, 11th, 13th,
and 17th harmonics with a phase shift angle in order
to achieve active and reactive power exchange [5], [8]. The Fig. 9. Comparison of time domain simulations and EHD.
parameters of the network are , mH,
F. The system voltage source is unbalanced with Both results compare very well with each other when 50 har-
the following values , , monics are used. The accuracy of the EHD solution decreases
and . The system frequency is when the number of harmonic coefficients reduces (e.g., five
50 Hz. harmonics). Fig. 9 shows the comparison during the disturbance
The HD was used to initialize the EHD solution. In this study, period. Nevertheless, the solution with a reduced number of har-
it is assumed that a disturbance lasting 10 ms takes place at a monics shows to be a good averaging method. It is important
time 20 ms. During the disturbance, the voltage reduces to to remark that if only the fundamental and the dc components
half of its prefault value, as shown in Fig. 7(a). were to be used in the EHD method, it would yield, with suit-
Fig. 8(a) shows the EHD solution, where only the voltage , able similarity transformations, a model that is compatible with
current , and voltage in the dc side are shown. Fifty har- those used in small signal stability analysis.
monic terms were used in the simulation. The time representa-
tion of these variables is given in Fig. 8(b). This result shows
D. Dynamic Electrical Indices
that harmonics react very sharply to system disturbances; they
give very accurate information of the instant when the distur- Several electrical parameters are used to enable accurate
bance starts and when it finishes. This information is not easily power quality assessments of electrical installations and
discerned when expressed in the time domain. equipment. The most popular are given in Table I. These
Fig. 9 compares results given by a standard numeric integra- parameters are normally expressed in terms of complex Fourier
tion method and the EHD solution, expressed in time domain. coefficients.
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TABLE I
POWER QUALITY PARAMETERS
Fig. 11. Electric quantities in terminals of the STATCOM for the second
disturbance.
Fig. 10. Electric quantities in terminals of the STATCOM for the first
disturbance.
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