Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- A new approach to harmonic allocation for medium-voltage installations
- In
- Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. 10, no. 2, 2013, pp. 149-156
- Url
- https://doi.org/10.7158/1448837X.2013.11464364
- Description
Reviewed and revised version of paper originally presented at the 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2010), 5-8 December 2010, Christchurch, New Zealand.
The authors: V J Gosbell, University of Wollongong, New South Wales; R A Barr, Electrical Power Consulting, Kiama, New South Wales.
[This paper was awarded the John Madsen Medal 2013]
- Abstract
Distributors need to allocate a maximum allowed level of harmonic current to medium-voltage customers to keep voltage distortion acceptable. The paper describes a new approach, based on the concept of voltage droop, requiring much less calculation and data than required by the present approach based on an IEC technical report. The discrepancy between the new method and the present is studied by comparing some carefully selected scenarios. It is shown that the proposed method gives results within 20% of the standards-based approach which makes it a very attractive alternative for harmonic allocation.
