Title: Metrological characterisation of power quality measurement stations: a case study

Authors: Edoardo Fiorucci; Giovanni Bucci; Fabrizio Ciancetta

Addresses: Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Via G. Gronchi 18, 67100 L'Aquila AQ, Italy. ' Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Via G. Gronchi 18, 67100 L'Aquila AQ, Italy. ' Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Via G. Gronchi 18, 67100 L'Aquila AQ, Italy

Abstract: In recent years, the rapid growth in the importance of electrical power quality (PQ) has created a demand for highly effective monitoring instruments, able to evaluate different PQ parameters. Instrument suppliers propose for the PQ measuring systems a variety of sizes and configurations, owing to the growing application fields. The metrological characterisation of these instruments is a problem because they must satisfy different requirements. In this paper, we discuss about the characterisation of PQ analysers, starting from an overview of current main international standards. As a case study in the paper a testing procedure is proposed, reporting also the characterisation results obtained with a multifunction PQ analyser prototype.

Keywords: power quality analysis; power system transient; distortion; voltage measurement; signal analysis; characterisation; IEEE standards; IEC standards; electrical power; instrumentation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIT.2011.043595

International Journal of Instrumentation Technology, 2011 Vol.1 No.1, pp.1 - 17

Received: 13 Aug 2010
Accepted: 18 Nov 2010
Published online: 30 Dec 2014 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article