Power quality studies using a developed low cost power quality monitor

• Author(s): Costa, José C. C. ; Pregitzer, Ricardo G. ; Batista, José ; Afonso, João L.
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/7664
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Power quality monitoring; Virtual instrumentation; Data acquisition; LabVIEW™
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

This work presents two studies to evaluate the power quality in two facilities: a diagnosis centre in a Public Hospital and a simulation laboratory with a computer cluster, together with a printing centre and the air conditioning equipments of the Physics Department of a public University. Both these installations require a high level of power quality in order to avoid productivity losses as well as economic losses, and to maintain a high level of service quality. These studies will apply international standards to ascertain the power quality at these locations and will use a custom made prototype power quality monitor developed by the authors. It uses Hall effect voltage sensors, Rugowski Coil flexible current sensors and its processing system was developed with LabVIEW™.