ECE623 Power Quality SP'XX: © S. Suryanarayanan, 2012 Colorado State University

ECE623 Power Quality Sp’XX
When: TBD Where: TBD

Instructor information:
Dr. Siddharth Suryanarayanan URL: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~ssuryana Phone: 970 491 4632
Office: C201F Engineering Office hours: TBD (other meeting times by email appointment only)
Credits: 3
Course description:
Aspects of interconnecting power electronic devices and renewable energy sources to power systems. Topics
include various indices, standards, models, analyses techniques, sources of practical power quality problems,
and remedies.
Course objectives:
In today’s world of Smart Grid, deregulated electric power systems, and high use of novel power electronics,
power quality is an apt commodity. This course is aimed at familiarizing the concepts of voltage sags,
harmonics, momentary disruptions, and waveform distortions. A theoretical and mathematical basis for various
indices, standards, models, and analyses techniques will be presented. Additionally, sources of power quality
problems and some remedies for improvement will be discussed.
Upon completion of the course students will:
1) Understand the basic definitions and metrics of power quality phenomena
2) Effectively use standards for quantifying power quality
3) Analyze power system harmonics through multiple methods
4) Recognize symptoms of power quality deviation associated with certain loads
5) Design solutions for power quality improvements.
Prerequisite (one of the following or instructor’s approval):

ECE 461 Power Systems-I OR ECE 562 Power Electronics-I
Textbook:
Class notes/slides by the instructor and relevant articles from public domain and electronic databases accessible
via CSU libraries.
References:
G. T. Heydt, Electric Power Quality, 2nd edition, Stars in a Circle Publications, Scottsdale, AZ, 1996. (No need
to buy)
R. C. Dugan, M. F. McGranaghan, S. Santoso, H. W. Beaty, Electric Power Systems Quality, 2nd edition,
McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., New York, 2003. (No need to buy)
Articles on electric power quality published by the IEEE Power Engineering Society.
Assignment of course grade:

The grade will be based on the weighted index as shown in the table:
Homework 25 %
Mid term exam 25 %
Term paper/ project 25 %
Final exam 25 %
Total 100 %
© S. Suryanarayanan, 2012

Colorado State University
Grade assignment:
X ≥ 90 A
86.667 ≤ X < 89.999 A-
83.333 ≤ X < 86.667 B+
80 ≤ X < 83.333 B
76.667 ≤ X < 79.999 B-
73.333 ≤ X < 76.667 C+
66.667 ≤ X < 73.333 C
60 ≤ X < 66.667 D
X < 60 F
Syllabus:
Date Tentative schedule *
Introduction to power quality, revisit mathematical concepts such as periodicity, RMS, Average
Week 1
values, and Fourier series.
What is electric power quality (PQ)?
Week 2 Measures of PQ – classical measures, Total harmonic distortion (THD), C-message weights,
Telephone interference factor (TIF), Flicker.
Week 3 Reliability indices (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI, CAIFI, ASAI, N-9s, etc.)
Week 4 Standards for assessing PQ- IEEE Std. 519.
Week 5 Measurements – voltage and current measurements, power and energy measurements, power
Week 6 factor measurements, event recorders, measurement errors and accuracy calculations.
Modeling components and network under non-sinusoidal conditions – transmission and
Week 7
distribution systems, resonance, transformers, inrush currents, electric machines, and grounding
systems.
Week 8
Term project and mid term assigned
Week 9 Spring break
Week 10 Loads that cause PQ problems – single phase AC/DC converters, three phase AC/DC
converters, Higher order converters, Battery chargers, Arc furnaces, fluorescent lighting, CFL,
Week 11 pulse modulated drives and adjustable speed drives.
Analysis methods – systems analyses and the periodic steady state, Laplace and Fourier domain
Week 12
methods, and the Hartley transform.
Week 13 Harmonics in power systems – Injection current method, power flow studies, Coordinate
Week 14 method, NR-method
Week 15 PQ improvement – harmonic filters, active filters, phase multiplication, UPS,
Term paper submission

PQ improvement –Constant voltage transformers, Static Var compensators and Static watt
Week 16
compensators.
Project presentation
Final exam week
The instructor may be on business related travel on some of the above dates for which ECE508 classes are scheduled.
Such dates are expected to occur minimally during the semester. In such cases of a conflict in schedule due to the
instructor’s travel plans, the respective class may either be cancelled/rescheduled or a guest speaker will be available to
substitute. An alternative meeting time and place will be announced well in advance to make up for any such cancelled
classes.
In specific, in addition to a frequently assigned (weekly) homework consisting typically of solving several end-of-the-
chapter problems from the book or otherwise provided by the instructor, and a frequently assigned (weekly) reading
assignment typically requires studying the course material equivalent to a book chapter, which includes reading and
understanding the theoretical narrative of the text and relating this material to the class lectures, performing independently
(by the student) the associated derivations from the textbook, and carrying out independently (by the student) the
examples (worked-out problems and exercises) from the textbook and/or reference texts. The reading assignments are
essential for the successful and efficient performance on homework, exams, projects, and class participation, and as such
are evaluated and assessed through all assessed/graded items included in the course outline.
Term paper/project:
Each student enrolled in the course will be required to choose a contemporary topic of research interest in the
field of power quality. Instructor will aid in choice of topic in the 8th week of classes in the semester. The
student is expected to perform high quality literature search and draw conclusions about state-of-the-art and the
future of the topic chosen. A technically sound research paper on the topic of choice written in the form of a
conference paper (according to the IEEE PES template) is a required deliverable from each student. The
template will be provided to the students or can be obtained by performing a Google search using the phrase
‘IEEE PES template’. Each student (or group) is required to present their paper in the form of a short
presentation to the class and take questions from the audience. The top scoring paper + presentation may be
recommended by the instructor to a student conference in power systems engineering for consideration in
archives. An alternative to the term paper is a computer project, which will be decided by the instructor.
Academic integrity is of utmost importance. For a description on practicing academic integrity, go to:
http://tilt.colostate.edu/integrity/
Departures from accepted norms of academic integrity will be dealt with full compliance to CSU policies
(web site: http://tilt.colostate.edu/integrity/guides/what_to_do.cfm). Visit
http://tilt.colostate.edu/integrity/honorpledge/ for familiarizing with the CSU Honor Pledge.


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Assignment of course grade:

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