Abstract

Power quality becomes a severe problem due to the increasing use of nonlinear electrical loads, complex electric power systems on smart grids, inverters in renewable power plants, and electronic control equipment. Power quality problems include variations in voltage or current such as sag, swell, flicker, spike, overvoltage, undervoltage, interruption, transient, harmonics, and frequency fluctuations. Research on power quality disturbances mostly applies signal processing and transformation methods such as Fast Fourier transform, S-transform, and Wavelet. In this paper, we use empirical mode decomposition methods and statistical parameters to analyze power quality disturbance signals. It gives more detailed characteristics of power quality disturbances. We conducted a six-step analysis to get a percentage of each power quality disturbance signal. The developed method provides a preliminary description of the power quality characteristics from the percentage values of RMS, range, and energy levels at the first IMF. The positive percentage indicates the existence of power quality disturbances contains flicker and swell, while negative indicates contain harmonics, sag, and transient.

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