Assessment of Distributed Harmonic Filters on Grid Voltage Quality

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2052

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CIRED 2019

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3-6 June 2019

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Madrid, Spain

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Yes

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Singh, Gaurav, EPRI, USA
Miller, Carl , Electric Power Research Institute, USA
Howe, William, Electric Power Research Institute, USA

Abstract

Proliferation of power electronic circuits (particularly in industrial settings) and inverter interfaced DER, may lead to an increase in the amount of harmonic loading on the circuit. This harmonic loading affects the power quality (PQ) of the feeder and can have an impact on the reliability of capacitor banks, which can act as sinks for these harmonic frequencies and increase chances of resonances. There is a temptation to deploy harmonic filters to alleviate this problem. However, there is a lack of understanding about how such distributed filters might impact the power grid. This paper proposes a method in which harmonic problems commonly associated with inverter based DER, may be solved at the planning stage by replacing capacitor banks on a feeder by equivalent harmonic filters tuned to a specific frequency or frequencies. A medium voltage (MV) filter design spreadsheet was developed to determine the feasibility of a standardized harmonic filter that may be deployed anywhere on the MV distribution system as a replacement to existing capacitor banks. With filters deployed in place of existing capacitor banks, various scenarios were considered to determine impacts on power system harmonics and voltage profiles.

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AIM

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2019-06-03

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CIRED 2019 Conference

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https://cired-repository.org/handle/20.500.12455/709
http://dx.doi.org/10.34890/934

ISSN

2032-9644

ISBN

978-2-9602415-0-1