Harmonic distortion monitoring for nonlinear loads using neural-network-method

  • Authors:
  • Claudionor Francisco Nascimento;Azauri Albano Oliveira, Jr.;Alessandro Goedtel;Alvaro Batista Dietrich

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of ABC (UFABC), CECS, R. Santa Adelia, 166, 09210-170 Santo Andre, SP, Brazil;University of São Paulo (USP), Elect. Eng. Dept., Av. Trab. São-carlense, 400, 13566-590 São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Federal University of Technology (UTFPR), Elect. Eng. Dept., Av. Alberto Carazzai, 1640, 86300-000 Cornélio Procópio, PR, Brazil;Federal University of ABC (UFABC), CECS, R. Santa Adelia, 166, 09210-170 Santo Andre, SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Nowadays, harmonic distortion in electric power systems is a power quality problem that has been attracting significant attention of engineering and scientific community. In order to evaluate the total harmonic distortion caused by particular nonlinear loads in power systems, the harmonic current components estimation becomes a critical issue. This paper presents an efficient approach to distortion metering, based on artificial neural networks applied to harmonic content estimation of load currents in single-phase systems. The harmonic content is computed using the estimation of amplitudes and phases of the first five odd harmonic components, which are carried out considering the waveform variations of current drained by nonlinear loads, within previously known limits. The proposed online monitoring method requires low computational effort and does not demand a specific number of samples per period at a fixed sampling rate, resulting in a low cost harmonic tracking system. The results from neural networks harmonic identification method are compared to the truncated fast Fourier transform algorithm. Besides, simulation and experimental results are presented to validate the proposed approach.