Power Quality Issues and their Impact on the Performance of Industrial Machines

Power supply quality concerns are the consequences of the increasing use of solid state switching devices, power electronically switched loads, unbalanced power systems, lightning controls, computer and data processing equipment, as well as industrial plant rectifiers and inverters. In this book, special prominence is given to the degrading of power quality due to unbalanced power supply. Moreover, the impact of unbalanced voltage on the performance of three-phase induction motors are also underlined. Three-phase induction motors are broadly used in diverse industrial applications while unbalances in supply voltage are responsible for various ailing impacts on their performance. Furthermore, the variation of performance parameters of three-phase induction motors have been analysed. Additionally, various existing methods for the assessment of the performance induction motor under the supply voltage unbalance have been critically reviewed to underline their shortcomings. The causes, effects, mitigation techniques along with the various interpretations of voltage unbalance, prescribed in different standard, are also discussed to highlight their deficits.

Mr. Abhishek Chauhan received the Engineering degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, Uttarpradesh, India, in 2011, and Master of Technology from the Graphic Era University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, 2013 in Control System Engineering. He also pursuing his PhD in (Power Quality Assessment) from Thapar University Patiala, Punjab, India. He is presently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at Institute of Technology (An Govt. of Uttarakhand run Institution), Gopeshwar, Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India. He also acquired the certification in Power Distribution Management from School of Engineering, IGNOU, New Delhi. He also published several research manuscript in reputed conferences online at IEEEexplore and having book chapter in Lecture Note in Electrical Engineering (LNEE), Springer. He is active member of Researchgate and his area of interest is Power Quality, Industrial Machines, Renewable Energy Sources and Power System Optimization.