Two-Night Seminar Covering Harmonic Analysis Understanding the Fundamentals
This course is geared towards practicing electrical, control and instrument engineers who perform engineering on facilities within the process industries.
This 4-hour technical seminar presented to the Houston Local Section of IEEE. In this seminar attendees can expect to learn:
Abstract:
Modern harmonic-analysis programs such as EasyPower, ETAP, DIgSILENT PowerFactory, and similar tools can solve complex power systems quickly, but the engineer still needs to understand what the software is calculating, which assumptions matter, and whether the results make physical sense.
This presentation develops harmonic analysis from those fundamentals. Beginning with nonlinear waveforms and Fourier analysis, it shows how a power system can be represented and solved as a separate electrical network at each harmonic frequency. Using a practical medium-voltage industrial system, attendees are taken through the modeling of source impedance, transformers, capacitor banks, motors, plant loads, and harmonic current injections, followed by the calculation and interpretation of harmonic voltage and current distortion.
Particular emphasis is placed on system resonance, how capacitor banks interact with frequency-dependent system impedance, why resonant frequencies move with operating conditions, and how relatively small harmonic currents can produce severe voltage distortion and current magnification.
The presentation then moves from analysis to mitigation, comparing the application and performance of notch-tuned, detuned, high-pass, C-high-pass, and H-type harmonic filters. Practical examples illustrate tuning, damping, filter interaction, interharmonics, resistor losses, resonance control, and economic tradeoffs in filter selection.
Co-sponsored by: Donald G. Dunn, FIEEE
Speaker(s): Paul Steciuk
Agenda:
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Dinner Served to all registered attendees.
6:00 pm – 6:15 pm: Annoucements
6:15 pm – 8:30 pm: Presentation
Bldg: Bechtel Energy Building #3, 2105 Citywest Place, Houston, Texas, United States, 77042