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International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 06 Issue: 10 | Oct 2019 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
© 2019, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.34 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1377
Study on Power Quality Problem and its Mitigation Techniques in
Electrical Power System
Anu G. Pillai1, Anjanaa2
1Assistant Professor, Electrical Department, 2M.TECH Students, Electrical Department,
SSTC-SSGI Bhilai (C.G.), India SSTC-SSGI Bhilai (C.G.), India
---------------------------------------------------------------------***----------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract–Recent time a large interest hasbeenstudiouson
power quality and reliability; this istwomost essentialaspects
of any power delivery system. Electrical power is collection of
all electrical network componentputaboutradiatedtosupply,
transfer and use of electric power, when indicate power
quality problem electric equipment get damage or
malfunctioning. In this paper various power quality problems
and also how to overcome the problem and discuss different
schemes to improve it, also the power quality enlargement
devices mention.
KeyWords: Power Quality, Voltage Sag, Swell, Harmonics
distortion, Facts, Custom power devices, ANN, GA.
1. INTRODUCTION
Power Quality that means different things to different
people; Question is that why we are thinking about the
power quality problem? PQ is brief term used to describe
the electrical system production. The power quality is
important due to newer generation load equipment,
microprocessor based control and non-linear load an
increase in the number of power electronic devices,
continues growth of adjustable speed drives and switched
mode power supplies, shunt capacitors for a power factor
correction result increasing harmonics, electrical
disturbance in power system.
According to IEEE standard IEEE1100 defines: “power
quality is the concept of powering and grounding sensitive
electronic equipment in a manner that is suitable for the
operation” [1]. Power quality isusuallya distributionsystem
related problem but the transmission system may also have
an impact on the quality of power, actuallythepowerquality
problems start with the transmission system to transmit
power over long distance, there generate power is stepped
up by transformer these high voltage bus have own power
problem due to corona and losses [2].Accordingtothe paper
discuss various power quality issues such as voltage sag,
swell, outage, switching, harmonics etc, which causes many
problems like equipment failure, electricity bill, and energy
west, etc.
Now a day power deliver to End users and utility become
more challenging because in a modern society use of
sensitive load, non-lineardevice,motors,computers,lighting
etc. thus it’s a very important to investigate the problemand
its solutions.
Power quality problems most severe problem are voltage
sags, swell and harmonic due to voltage distortion affecting
the power system.
2. Power Quality issues:
The concept of good and bad power quality depends on the
consumers. If the equipment operation satisfactory the user
feel that power is good and equipment doesn’t operate and
malfunctioning and fails there is feeling power is bad. Due to
non-linear devices, occurring fault, lighting, outage, the
electronics equipment and sensitive devices face lot of
problems and equipment get damage or completely
shutdown. Power quality problems are voltage sags, voltage
swell, interruption, voltage variation, frequency deviation,
harmonics distortion, under voltage, over voltage, etc.
(a) Voltage Sag:
The voltage sag is a sudden drop in the RMS voltage
for a short period, the duration of the voltage sag is
less than 1 minute but more than an 8 ms and the
drop of voltage value become 10% to 90% of the
nominal voltage.Voltagesagiseitherunsymmetrical
& symmetrical fault. The causes of voltage sag are
due to starting a heavy load, LG fault, lighting strike,
fault due to short circuit.
(b) Voltage Swell:
A Voltage swell is sudden rise in the RMS voltage for
a short duration, the duration of the voltage swell is
less than 1 minute and increasing voltage is 10% to
110% ofnominalvoltage;itismomentaryincreasing
in voltage outside the normal tolerance. Swell are
usually associate system fault condition which are
causes drop of heavy loads, due to voltage swell
shutting down of heavy load, boost capacitor bank,
adjustable speed drivewhichcantrip,remodeling in
the ground reference on groundless phases.
(c) Interruption:
It can be considered as voltage dip with 100%
amplitude forthe short duration, thedurationisless
than 1 minute; the source voltage or current may be
near to zero. The causes may be a blown fuse or
break opening and effect a shutdown, opening of
International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 06 Issue: 10 | Oct 2019 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
© 2019, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.34 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1378
automatic re-closer, insulation flash over etc. due to
the interruption data storage system gets affected
and also malfunctioning of the sensitive loads.
(d) Frequency variation:
The Electric power systems develop to work at a
specified value of frequency. The frequency
variations are caused if there is any inequality in
demand and supply, huge frequency variation are
due to generator failures or sudden change in loads.
Frequency variation should be within acceptable
limit at all devices.
(e) Harmonic distortion:
It is expressas the interventioninanacpowersignal
generated by frequency multiple of the sine wave;
the main source of harmonic voltage distortion is
use of non-linear device, the most harmonic current
drawn non-linear loads are all single and three-
phase converters such as rectifier, dc motors,
fluorescent lighting, ac motors and transforms,
heating furnaces, etc.
(f) Transient:
Voltage disturbance shorter than sag and swell is
known as transientandarecausesbysuddenchange
in the power system; according to the duration the
transient is divided into two parts i.e. switching
surge duration of millisecond and impulsive spike
duration of microsecond. Due totransientelectronic
equipment show wrong result, failureof fluorescent
lights, motor runs higher temperature.
(g) Waveform Distortion:
The power system electric networks do one’s best
to generate and transmit the sine wave voltage and
current. Waveform distortionoccurswhereasteady
states frequency deviates from an ideal sine wave.
The causes of waveform distortion are Inter
harmonic, dc offset, notching, noise, etc.
(h) Voltage Unbalance:
Voltage unbalance is defined as the condition where
the magnitudeandphaseanglesbetweenthevoltage
signals are not equal. Voltage unbalancecausesfault
arising in the network, also the large single phase
loads. Consequences of voltage unbalance are;
increasing power destruction minimizes the life of
the equipment, harmonic present in the system.
International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 06 Issue: 10 | Oct 2019 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
© 2019, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.34 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1379
3. Power Quality Mitigation Techniques:
The occurrence ofpowerqualityproblemcanbereduced
but cannot be completely eliminated because large
number of non-linear loads is increasing; therefore it is
necessary to eliminate to employ an improvement
technique to minimize the effect of power quality
problems. Many types of power improvement devices
have been progress to improve the power quality
complication, problem should be mitigating in order to
keep up the efficiencyofthesystem.Thefollowingpower
devices create to effective power quality are surge
protectiondevice,M-Gset,uninterruptiblepowersupply,
isolation transformer,SVC,UPFC,custompower devices.
i. Surge protection device (SPD):
Automatic control buses, and electrical power
system surge protection device is used to address
the impulsive transient, eliminates overvoltage.
SPD is connected parallel has high impedance.
ii. M-G Sets (Motor Generator Sets):
M-G setsare established at the loadsideinorderto
provide power to fault-finding loads during
interruption from the power providing company;
M-G sets used in all cases expect long duration
outage.
iii. UPS (uninterruptible power supply):
UPS can be used in case of voltage sag, swell,
interruption, long duration over-voltages and
under-voltages, and noise. During voltage sag and
outage it provides constant voltage from a battery
or super conducting material.
iv. Isolated transformer:
Isolated transformer is used to transfer electric
power from source to some electric sensitive load
equipment while isolating the power device
usually asafety reason. These devices areeffective
in case of transient.
v. SVC (static var compensator):
These alsoapply passiveelementlikeinductorand
capacitors, but the use of solid state switches to
regulate the voltagerejectionraisingtheefficiency.
Static VAR compensator consist two main parts
one is thyristor controlledreactorandanotherone
is thyristor switched capacitor.SVCisconnectedin
parallel with ac line through a transformer in
order to reactive power rejection, also regulate
high voltage immediately, it reduces the flickers
causes by the heavy loads.
vi. UPFC (Unified Power Flow Controller):
UPFC was device made use of the real timecontrol
and compensation of ac transmissions system; it
provides flexibility to solve many of problems
facing the distribution industries. UPFC assistnew
challenges in power electronicsandpowersystem
design. The formationof UPFCconsist twovoltage
source inverters oneconnectedtoparallelwiththe
transmission line and another one series with the
transmission line to regulate the variable (the bus
voltage, line impedance and phase angle) affecting
power flow in the transmission line.
vii. Noise filter:
Noise filters can be utilized as to detach the
undesirable voltage and current signals in the
sensitive component. It can be implementing by
using the combination of capacitorandinductor,it
will create a low impedance path of the high
frequency.
viii. Custom power devices:
Custom power devices are used for distribution
system like FACTS devices used for the
transmission system. These devices are power
electronics equipment objective to solve
improving power quality problems. These devices
are dynamic voltage restorer, D-STATCOM, UPQC.
a. DVR (Dynamic Voltage Restorer):
The power electronic based compensation
that protects sensitive load from all type
source side disturbances other than outage is
known as dynamic voltage restorer.DVRhave
the ability to generating and absorbing
undependable controllable real and reactive
power at its ac output. DVRcan be applyingto
make up the load voltage harmonics, used
under system frequency variation to provide
real power, protectagainstthevoltagesagand
swell.
b. D-STATCOM:
Distribution static compensator is power
electronic based equipment used to protect
the distribution bus from small voltage
variation,voltageunbalance,canbecontrolled
by reactive power injection. It is connected
parallel with distribution bus generally at a
common coupling device.
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c. UPQC (Unified Power Quality Conditioner):
The UPQC device is similar with UPFC, it
consist two voltage source inverters that
connect to general dc energy storage
capacitor, one is connect series with ac line
and another is parallel with same ac line to
reduce the harmonic current by adding the
series voltage proportional to the line current
(6). Series voltage added to the voltage at PCC
such that device can provide a barrier to
remove any voltage sag and flickers.
ix. Neural network based mitigation:
Artificial neural network is proposed to newer
generation for the power factor, reactive power,
active power and fault location for the better
utilize the volt-ampere. An important feature of
the neural network is its capability to learn and
generalize from set-off training.
In the latest neural network based mitigation is
used forthe power qualityanalysisandautomated
fault detection. In the mitigation only input and
expected output data are required for the training
of neurons. The new mitigation is very useful for
the modeling the power network and analysis of
power quality problem.
4. CONCLUSION:
The necessity of electrical power is increasing day to day
and same time the quality of power delivered becomes
foremost issues in the energy industry. Thus, the quality of
power should be maintained efficiently. The differentpower
quality issues voltage sag, swell and presences of harmonic
affect the end user appliances.
REFERENCES:
1. C. Sankaran, “power quality book” edition 2002.
2. Arindam Ghosh and Genard Ledwich, “Power
Quality Enhancement Using Custom Power
Devices”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
Chapter 1 pp. 10, 16. Chapter 4 121-127.
3. IEEE Standard 1250™-2011, “IEEE guide for
identifying and improving voltage quality in power
system.” PP. 5-28, 46.
4. IEEE Std. 1159™-2009, “IEEE Recommended
practice for monitoring electrical power quality.”
PP. 25-28.
5. A. kusko, Marc T. Thomson. “Power quality in
electrical system.” McGraw-hill 2007. Chapter 3 pp.
25-40.
6. Sabin D.D., Sundaram A., “Quality enhances
reliability.” IEEE Spectrum, Feb. 1996.
7. Pandu Sathish Babu Nagappan Kamaraj, “Quality
Enhancement using Dynamic Voltage Restorer”,
Lambert Academic Publishing, chapter-1, pp.1-16.
8. Bollen, MHJ 2001, “Understanding power quality
problems-voltage sags and interruptions” IEEE
Press series on power Engineering, NewYork.
9. Bhattacharyya, S. Myrzik, JAM, Cobben, JFG, Kling,
WL & Didden, “Need of voltage quality regulation in
the future electricity” 2007.
10. Lippman. Richard. P., “An Introduction to
Computing with Neural Nets” IEEE Transaction on
neural networks Vol. 1, No. 1: March 1990.
11. M. Martin, “Common power quality problems and
best practice solutions” Shangri - la Kuala Lumpur,
1997.

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IRJET- Study on Power Quality Problem and its Mitigation Techniques in Electrical Power System

  • 1. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 06 Issue: 10 | Oct 2019 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2019, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.34 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1377 Study on Power Quality Problem and its Mitigation Techniques in Electrical Power System Anu G. Pillai1, Anjanaa2 1Assistant Professor, Electrical Department, 2M.TECH Students, Electrical Department, SSTC-SSGI Bhilai (C.G.), India SSTC-SSGI Bhilai (C.G.), India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract–Recent time a large interest hasbeenstudiouson power quality and reliability; this istwomost essentialaspects of any power delivery system. Electrical power is collection of all electrical network componentputaboutradiatedtosupply, transfer and use of electric power, when indicate power quality problem electric equipment get damage or malfunctioning. In this paper various power quality problems and also how to overcome the problem and discuss different schemes to improve it, also the power quality enlargement devices mention. KeyWords: Power Quality, Voltage Sag, Swell, Harmonics distortion, Facts, Custom power devices, ANN, GA. 1. INTRODUCTION Power Quality that means different things to different people; Question is that why we are thinking about the power quality problem? PQ is brief term used to describe the electrical system production. The power quality is important due to newer generation load equipment, microprocessor based control and non-linear load an increase in the number of power electronic devices, continues growth of adjustable speed drives and switched mode power supplies, shunt capacitors for a power factor correction result increasing harmonics, electrical disturbance in power system. According to IEEE standard IEEE1100 defines: “power quality is the concept of powering and grounding sensitive electronic equipment in a manner that is suitable for the operation” [1]. Power quality isusuallya distributionsystem related problem but the transmission system may also have an impact on the quality of power, actuallythepowerquality problems start with the transmission system to transmit power over long distance, there generate power is stepped up by transformer these high voltage bus have own power problem due to corona and losses [2].Accordingtothe paper discuss various power quality issues such as voltage sag, swell, outage, switching, harmonics etc, which causes many problems like equipment failure, electricity bill, and energy west, etc. Now a day power deliver to End users and utility become more challenging because in a modern society use of sensitive load, non-lineardevice,motors,computers,lighting etc. thus it’s a very important to investigate the problemand its solutions. Power quality problems most severe problem are voltage sags, swell and harmonic due to voltage distortion affecting the power system. 2. Power Quality issues: The concept of good and bad power quality depends on the consumers. If the equipment operation satisfactory the user feel that power is good and equipment doesn’t operate and malfunctioning and fails there is feeling power is bad. Due to non-linear devices, occurring fault, lighting, outage, the electronics equipment and sensitive devices face lot of problems and equipment get damage or completely shutdown. Power quality problems are voltage sags, voltage swell, interruption, voltage variation, frequency deviation, harmonics distortion, under voltage, over voltage, etc. (a) Voltage Sag: The voltage sag is a sudden drop in the RMS voltage for a short period, the duration of the voltage sag is less than 1 minute but more than an 8 ms and the drop of voltage value become 10% to 90% of the nominal voltage.Voltagesagiseitherunsymmetrical & symmetrical fault. The causes of voltage sag are due to starting a heavy load, LG fault, lighting strike, fault due to short circuit. (b) Voltage Swell: A Voltage swell is sudden rise in the RMS voltage for a short duration, the duration of the voltage swell is less than 1 minute and increasing voltage is 10% to 110% ofnominalvoltage;itismomentaryincreasing in voltage outside the normal tolerance. Swell are usually associate system fault condition which are causes drop of heavy loads, due to voltage swell shutting down of heavy load, boost capacitor bank, adjustable speed drivewhichcantrip,remodeling in the ground reference on groundless phases. (c) Interruption: It can be considered as voltage dip with 100% amplitude forthe short duration, thedurationisless than 1 minute; the source voltage or current may be near to zero. The causes may be a blown fuse or break opening and effect a shutdown, opening of
  • 2. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 06 Issue: 10 | Oct 2019 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2019, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.34 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1378 automatic re-closer, insulation flash over etc. due to the interruption data storage system gets affected and also malfunctioning of the sensitive loads. (d) Frequency variation: The Electric power systems develop to work at a specified value of frequency. The frequency variations are caused if there is any inequality in demand and supply, huge frequency variation are due to generator failures or sudden change in loads. Frequency variation should be within acceptable limit at all devices. (e) Harmonic distortion: It is expressas the interventioninanacpowersignal generated by frequency multiple of the sine wave; the main source of harmonic voltage distortion is use of non-linear device, the most harmonic current drawn non-linear loads are all single and three- phase converters such as rectifier, dc motors, fluorescent lighting, ac motors and transforms, heating furnaces, etc. (f) Transient: Voltage disturbance shorter than sag and swell is known as transientandarecausesbysuddenchange in the power system; according to the duration the transient is divided into two parts i.e. switching surge duration of millisecond and impulsive spike duration of microsecond. Due totransientelectronic equipment show wrong result, failureof fluorescent lights, motor runs higher temperature. (g) Waveform Distortion: The power system electric networks do one’s best to generate and transmit the sine wave voltage and current. Waveform distortionoccurswhereasteady states frequency deviates from an ideal sine wave. The causes of waveform distortion are Inter harmonic, dc offset, notching, noise, etc. (h) Voltage Unbalance: Voltage unbalance is defined as the condition where the magnitudeandphaseanglesbetweenthevoltage signals are not equal. Voltage unbalancecausesfault arising in the network, also the large single phase loads. Consequences of voltage unbalance are; increasing power destruction minimizes the life of the equipment, harmonic present in the system.
  • 3. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 06 Issue: 10 | Oct 2019 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2019, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.34 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1379 3. Power Quality Mitigation Techniques: The occurrence ofpowerqualityproblemcanbereduced but cannot be completely eliminated because large number of non-linear loads is increasing; therefore it is necessary to eliminate to employ an improvement technique to minimize the effect of power quality problems. Many types of power improvement devices have been progress to improve the power quality complication, problem should be mitigating in order to keep up the efficiencyofthesystem.Thefollowingpower devices create to effective power quality are surge protectiondevice,M-Gset,uninterruptiblepowersupply, isolation transformer,SVC,UPFC,custompower devices. i. Surge protection device (SPD): Automatic control buses, and electrical power system surge protection device is used to address the impulsive transient, eliminates overvoltage. SPD is connected parallel has high impedance. ii. M-G Sets (Motor Generator Sets): M-G setsare established at the loadsideinorderto provide power to fault-finding loads during interruption from the power providing company; M-G sets used in all cases expect long duration outage. iii. UPS (uninterruptible power supply): UPS can be used in case of voltage sag, swell, interruption, long duration over-voltages and under-voltages, and noise. During voltage sag and outage it provides constant voltage from a battery or super conducting material. iv. Isolated transformer: Isolated transformer is used to transfer electric power from source to some electric sensitive load equipment while isolating the power device usually asafety reason. These devices areeffective in case of transient. v. SVC (static var compensator): These alsoapply passiveelementlikeinductorand capacitors, but the use of solid state switches to regulate the voltagerejectionraisingtheefficiency. Static VAR compensator consist two main parts one is thyristor controlledreactorandanotherone is thyristor switched capacitor.SVCisconnectedin parallel with ac line through a transformer in order to reactive power rejection, also regulate high voltage immediately, it reduces the flickers causes by the heavy loads. vi. UPFC (Unified Power Flow Controller): UPFC was device made use of the real timecontrol and compensation of ac transmissions system; it provides flexibility to solve many of problems facing the distribution industries. UPFC assistnew challenges in power electronicsandpowersystem design. The formationof UPFCconsist twovoltage source inverters oneconnectedtoparallelwiththe transmission line and another one series with the transmission line to regulate the variable (the bus voltage, line impedance and phase angle) affecting power flow in the transmission line. vii. Noise filter: Noise filters can be utilized as to detach the undesirable voltage and current signals in the sensitive component. It can be implementing by using the combination of capacitorandinductor,it will create a low impedance path of the high frequency. viii. Custom power devices: Custom power devices are used for distribution system like FACTS devices used for the transmission system. These devices are power electronics equipment objective to solve improving power quality problems. These devices are dynamic voltage restorer, D-STATCOM, UPQC. a. DVR (Dynamic Voltage Restorer): The power electronic based compensation that protects sensitive load from all type source side disturbances other than outage is known as dynamic voltage restorer.DVRhave the ability to generating and absorbing undependable controllable real and reactive power at its ac output. DVRcan be applyingto make up the load voltage harmonics, used under system frequency variation to provide real power, protectagainstthevoltagesagand swell. b. D-STATCOM: Distribution static compensator is power electronic based equipment used to protect the distribution bus from small voltage variation,voltageunbalance,canbecontrolled by reactive power injection. It is connected parallel with distribution bus generally at a common coupling device.
  • 4. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 06 Issue: 10 | Oct 2019 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2019, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.34 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1380 c. UPQC (Unified Power Quality Conditioner): The UPQC device is similar with UPFC, it consist two voltage source inverters that connect to general dc energy storage capacitor, one is connect series with ac line and another is parallel with same ac line to reduce the harmonic current by adding the series voltage proportional to the line current (6). Series voltage added to the voltage at PCC such that device can provide a barrier to remove any voltage sag and flickers. ix. Neural network based mitigation: Artificial neural network is proposed to newer generation for the power factor, reactive power, active power and fault location for the better utilize the volt-ampere. An important feature of the neural network is its capability to learn and generalize from set-off training. In the latest neural network based mitigation is used forthe power qualityanalysisandautomated fault detection. In the mitigation only input and expected output data are required for the training of neurons. The new mitigation is very useful for the modeling the power network and analysis of power quality problem. 4. CONCLUSION: The necessity of electrical power is increasing day to day and same time the quality of power delivered becomes foremost issues in the energy industry. Thus, the quality of power should be maintained efficiently. The differentpower quality issues voltage sag, swell and presences of harmonic affect the end user appliances. REFERENCES: 1. C. Sankaran, “power quality book” edition 2002. 2. Arindam Ghosh and Genard Ledwich, “Power Quality Enhancement Using Custom Power Devices”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Chapter 1 pp. 10, 16. Chapter 4 121-127. 3. IEEE Standard 1250™-2011, “IEEE guide for identifying and improving voltage quality in power system.” PP. 5-28, 46. 4. IEEE Std. 1159™-2009, “IEEE Recommended practice for monitoring electrical power quality.” PP. 25-28. 5. A. kusko, Marc T. Thomson. “Power quality in electrical system.” McGraw-hill 2007. Chapter 3 pp. 25-40. 6. Sabin D.D., Sundaram A., “Quality enhances reliability.” IEEE Spectrum, Feb. 1996. 7. Pandu Sathish Babu Nagappan Kamaraj, “Quality Enhancement using Dynamic Voltage Restorer”, Lambert Academic Publishing, chapter-1, pp.1-16. 8. Bollen, MHJ 2001, “Understanding power quality problems-voltage sags and interruptions” IEEE Press series on power Engineering, NewYork. 9. Bhattacharyya, S. Myrzik, JAM, Cobben, JFG, Kling, WL & Didden, “Need of voltage quality regulation in the future electricity” 2007. 10. Lippman. Richard. P., “An Introduction to Computing with Neural Nets” IEEE Transaction on neural networks Vol. 1, No. 1: March 1990. 11. M. Martin, “Common power quality problems and best practice solutions” Shangri - la Kuala Lumpur, 1997.