Course overview
This course will address power quality issues and condition monitoring techniques used in electrical and industrial systems. A brief overview of power systems and three-phase machines will be given, and the course will cover various issues under two major sections. Power Quality: Electromagnetic interference and interactions in energy systems, types of power quality issues, regulations, standards, prevention techniques, measurements and analysis and real-time tests. Condition Monitoring: importance, types and features of faults, test methods, sensors and measurement techniques, traditional and advanced diagnostic methods, case studies and real-time tests.
- Power Quality
- Condition Monitoring
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the importance of power quality and discuss the classification, causes and effects of power quality issues.
- Analyse power quality issues including fault currents, voltage dips, harmonics and unbalanced voltages with comparison against appropriate standards.
- Explain the importance of condition monitoring, and the construction and operation of electric machines.
- Explain how sensor signals and analysis approaches can be used for condition monitoring of induction machines, synchronous machines and transformers.
- Develop practical skills working in groups, using voltage, current, flux and vibration sensors, processing signals to obtain frequency spectra and analysing the results for power quality and condition monitoring testing.