Experimental Study of Harmonic Influence on Electrical Energy Metering

Yaroslav Shklyarskiy, Zbigniew Hanzelka and Aleksandr Skamyin
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Yaroslav Shklyarskiy: Department of General Electrical Engineering, Saint-Petersburg Mining University, 199106 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Zbigniew Hanzelka: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Aleksandr Skamyin: Department of Electric Power and Electromechanics, Saint-Petersburg Mining University, 199106 Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-13

Abstract: The paper considers the influence of harmonics on the operating of electrical energy meters in a network with nonlinear loads. It is shown that electronic static meters of active energy are tested in the presence of distortions, and electronic static meters of reactive energy accuracy requirements do not take into account the possible presence of harmonics. It is revealed that the maximum influence on the error in active energy metering is exerted by the number of harmonics taken into account and their amplitude, and the error in reactive energy metering is additionally influenced by the phase angle at the fundamental and harmonic frequencies, which has been confirmed in laboratory conditions. Additionally, experimental studies of the capacitor bank’s influence on reactive energy metering has been carried out in the presence of nonlinear electrical loads. It is shown that when capacitor banks are connected, the error in reactive energy measurement and variation range of the phase shift angle of harmonics significantly increases. The assessment of the computational error of reactive power metering according to various equations were carried out based on the field measurements. If the voltage and current distortion values do not exceed the permissible values, the error can be estimated at, at most, 5–7%.

Keywords: high harmonics; total harmonic distortion; power quality; electrical energy meters; capacitor banks; active energy; reactive energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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