Power Quality in Power Distribution Systems: Concepts and Applications

The comprehensive textbook will help readers to develop analytic reasoning of power quality aspects in distribution power systems. It will as an ideal study material for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering.

• Provides explanation of transformations and power theories for single phase and three-phase systems.

• Discusses concepts illustrating power quality aspects in power distribution network.

• Examines detailed derivations and analysis of voltage and current compensation techniques.

• Discusses custom power devices such as DSTATCOM, DVR and UPQC.

• Presents solved examples, theoretical and numerical exercises in each chapter.

This textbook comprehensively covers fundamentals concepts of power quality with the help of solved problems. It provides basic understanding of power quality aspects in power systems, especially in power distribution networks and explains issues related to power quality problems, their quantification, analysis and interpretation. It covers important topics including single phase circuits, three phase circuits, theory of fundamental load compensation, instantaneous reactive power theory, theory of instantaneous symmetrical components, dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) and unified power quality conditioner. Pedagogical features including solved problems and unsolved exercises are interspersed throughout the text for better understanding.The textbook is primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering for courses on power quality/power system/power electronics. The textbook will be accompanied by teaching resource including solution manual for the instructors.

Mahesh Kumar is currently working as a professor, department of electrical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His areas of research include power distribution network, power quality monitoring, analysis and interpretation, power electronics application in power system, custom power devices, DSTATCOM, DVR, UPQC, etc. He has published more than 250 research papers in journals of national and international repute and conferences. He has taught courses including electromechanical energy conversion, control systems, transmission lines, advance topics in power system, power system quality and reliability and high voltage power transmission at the undergraduate and graduate level. He is a life member of the Indian Society of Technical Education. He received the IETE Professor Bimal Bose Award in 2015 for his outstanding contributions to Power Electronics Applications in Power Systems. He is a senior member of IEEE and served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), Fellow of IE(I).