Title: Power quality evaluation in deregulated power system using matrix method

Authors: Surender Dahiya, Dinesh Kumar Jain, Ashok Kumar, Ramesh Kumar Garg, V.K. Gupta

Addresses: Department of Electrical Engineering, Hindu Institute of Technology, Sonepat: 131 001, Haryana, India. ' Department of Electrical Engineering, CR State College of Engineering, Murthal: 131 039, Haryana, India. ' YMCA Institute of Engineering and Technology, Faridabad, Haryana, India. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, CR State College of Engineering, Murthal: 131 039, Haryana, India. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, CR State College of Engineering, Murthal: 131 039, Haryana, India

Abstract: Power quality has emerged as a challenging area in the context of deregulation, wherein electricity distribution buyers and sellers carry out mutually agreed-upon exchanges. A market for active power and reactive power is installed in many places as a result of a deregulation process. However, the power-quality-related market is in the developing stage. For a given site, the power quality attributes have individual indices which have to be combined to give a suitability index so that the performance of the supply system may be evaluated at the point of common coupling. In this paper, a new technique based on the matrix method and permanents is proposed to quantify the power quality of a site. The proposed algorithm method is explained and illustrated with a sample problem on site evaluation and ranking.

Keywords: power quality; voltage sag; voltage swell; harmonics; flicker; unbalance; suitability index; permanent; matrix method; deregulated power systems; electricity distribution; deregulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.2007.014921

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 2007 Vol.28 No.1, pp.1 - 10

Published online: 20 Aug 2007 *

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