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Detection of Inconspicuous Power Quality Disturbances through Step Changes in rms Voltage Profile
Alvaro Furlani Bastos,
Walmir Freitas,
Grazia Todeschini,
Surya Santoso
IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
Swansea University Author: Grazia Todeschini
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DOI (Published version): 10.1049/iet-gtd.2018.6511
Abstract
Power quality disturbances commonly observed in power systems have been studied for decades, resulting in numerous algorithms for detecting the events that affect the voltage and/or current waveforms. However, a considerable amount of disturbances is not visually observable in the raw waveforms, esp...
| Published in: | IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8687 1751-8695 |
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2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa49809 |
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Power quality disturbances commonly observed in power systems have been studied for decades, resulting in numerous algorithms for detecting the events that affect the voltage and/or current waveforms. However, a considerable amount of disturbances is not visually observable in the raw waveforms, especially switching operations. These events must be detected through an alternative feature, such as abrupt variations in the root-mean-square (rms) voltage profile. This study examines the methods commonly used for detecting power quality disturbances in the waveform or rms voltage profile domains and identifies their limitations. Afterwards, a novel step change detector is proposed based on a modified median filter and rms voltage gradient values to overcome the deficiencies of the existing methods. The effectiveness of the proposed method is assessed by applying it to both simulated and field data. This assessment shows that the method detects all switching events with no false positives for the datasets under analysis. |
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