Detection of Harmonic Components using the FFT and Instantaneous Reactive Power Theory

Abstract

Harmonics is a widespread phenomenon in power system. With the rapid development of new energy generation, it is more urgent to monitor and suppress harmonics in power system. Considering the accuracy and real-time of harmonic detection, a novel harmonic detection method based on FFT and instantaneous reactive power theory is proposed. In this method, the harmonic frequency of the signal to be measured is first determined by windowed FFT, and then the harmonic amplitude and phase are calculated by an improved harmonic detection method based on instantaneous reactive power theory. The example results show that the proposed method has high detection accuracy and good real-time performance, and it can realize the fast detection of harmonics.