Introduction, Power quality-voltage quality, power quality evaluation procedures term and definitions:general classes of power quality problems, transients, long duration voltage variation, short duration voltage variations, voltage imbalance, waveform distortion, power quality terms.
Sources of sags and interruptions, estimating voltage sag performance, fundamental principles of protection, motor starting sags.
Sources of transient over voltages, principles of over voltages protection, utility capacitor switching transients, Fundamentals of harmonics: Harmonic distortion, voltage versus transients, harmonic indexes, harmonic sources from commercial loads, harmonic sources from Industrial loads, effects of harmonic distortion, intraharmonics.
Harmonic distortion evaluations, principles for controlling harmonics, harmonic studies, devices for controlling harmonic distortion, harmonic filters, standards of harmonics
Introduction, benchmark process, power quality contract, power quality state estimation, including power quality in distribution planning.
DG technologies, interface to utility system, power quality issues, interconnection standards.
Monitoring considerations, power quality measurement equipments, assessment of power quality measurement data, application of intelligent systems, power quality monitoring standards.