Power quality monitoring system under different environmental and electric conditions

Abstract

Power quality monitoring has become very important because it allows preventing damages on sensitive equipment. To perform a proper monitoring, it is necessary equipment with certain features: High sampling rate, portability, high-storage capacity, reconfigurability, among others. This paper presents the results of using a proprietary power quality monitoring system in three different scenarios. The system can acquire and store data for extended periods, and then data can be processed to identify power quality disturbances on the electric grid. Results show that the equipment can acquire, store and process data to identify a vast range of power quality disturbances. Moreover, environmental and electric conditions are not equal for the three locations and the equipment is able to properly work regardless these factors.