European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality
Abstract
A virtual instrument, named Power Quality
Meter, is presented for (a) measuring power consumption and
harmonics in three-phase systems, under non-sinusoidal and
imbalance conditions (b) detecting, classifying and organizes
power disturbance events. Measurement of the power
consumption follows the formulation proposed by the members
of the IEEE Working Group on Nonsinusoidal Situations
(1996). So, definitions are based on the analysis of functions in
the frequency domain, separating the fundamental terms from
the harmonic terms of the Fourier series. The virtual instrument
has been developed too for monitoring and measuring power
disturbances, which are automatically classified and organized
in a database while they are being recorded. Software tools use
the database structure to present summaries of power
disturbances and locate an event by severity or time of
occurrence. Records of actual measurements are included to
demonstrate the versatility of the instrument
