Course abstract

This course is intended to provide tools to classify, quantify, and analyze the power quality problems and to provide practical engineering solutions to mitigate these problems. The objectives of this course are as follows. • To understand the various power quality issues. • To understand the concept of power and power factor in single-phase and three-phase systems supplying nonlinear loads. • To understand the conventional compensation techniques used for power factor correction and load voltage regulation. • To understand the active compensation techniques used for reactive power compensation, load balancing, power factor correction, and load voltage regulation. • To understand the active filter techniques used for harmonics elimination. • To understand the power quality improvement in SMPS, drive systems, and renewable energy systems.