Reconfigurable Power Quality Analyzer Applied to Hardware-in-Loop Test Bench

Jahangir Badar, Saddaqat Ali, Hafiz Mudassir Munir, Veer Bhan, Syed Sabir Hussain Bukhari and Jong-Suk Ro
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Jahangir Badar: Department of Electrical Engineering, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur 65200, Pakistan
Saddaqat Ali: Department of Electrical Engineering, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur 65200, Pakistan
Hafiz Mudassir Munir: Department of Electrical Engineering, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur 65200, Pakistan
Veer Bhan: Department of Electrical Engineering, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur 65200, Pakistan
Syed Sabir Hussain Bukhari: Department of Electrical Engineering, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur 65200, Pakistan
Jong-Suk Ro: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06910, Korea

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 16, 1-18

Abstract: Integration of renewable energy resources and conventional grids leads to an increase in power quality issues. These power quality issues require different standards to be followed for accurate measurement and monitoring of various parameters of the power system. Conventional power quality analyzers (PQAs) are programmed to a particular standard and cannot be reconfigured by the end user. Therefore, conventional PQAs cannot meet the challenges of a rapidly changing grid. In this regard, a Compact RIO-based (CRIO-based) PQA was proposed, that can be easily reprogrammed and cope with the challenges faced by conventional PQAs. The salient features of the proposed PQA are a high processing speed, interactive interface, and high-quality data-storage capacity. Moreover, unlike conventional PQAs, the proposed PQA can be monitored remotely via the internet. In this research, a hardware-in-loop (HIL) simulation is used for performing the power-quality assessment in a systematic manner. Power quality indices such as apparent power, power factor, harmonics, frequency disturbance, inrush current, voltage sag and voltage swell are considered for validating the performance of the proposed PQA against the Fluke’s PQA 43-B.

Keywords: compact reconfigurable input–output (CRIO); field programmable gate array (FPGA); hardware-in-loop (HIL); power quality indices (PQI); real time (RT); LabVIEW (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: 2021
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