MI 2883 Energy Master
Theory and internal operation
133
FFT
Voltage harmonics and THD
10 periods
t
n
1 2 3 4 5 6
50
U
FFT
10 periods
t
n
1 2 3 4 5 6
50
I
Uhn
Ihn
Current harmonics and THD
Figure 5.6: Current and voltage harmonics
k
k
k
t
f
k
c
c
t
u
1
1024
1
0
2
10
sin
)
(
(41)
f
1
– frequency of signal fundamental (in example: 50 Hz)
c
0
– DC component
k
– ordinal number (order of the spectral line) related to the frequency basis
N
C
T
f
1
1
T
N
– is the width (or duration) of the time window (T
N
= N*T
1
; T
1
=1/f
1
). Time window is
that time span of a time function over which the Fourier transformation is
performed.
c
k
– is the amplitude of the component with frequency
1
10
f
k
f
Ck
k
– is the phase of the component c
k
U
c,k
– is the RMS voltage value of component c
k
I
c,k
– is the RMS current value of component c
k
Phase voltage and current harmonics are calculated as RMS value of harmonic
subgroup
(sg)
: square root of the sum of the squares of the RMS value of a harmonic
and the two spectral components immediately adjacent to it.
n
th
voltage harmonic:
1
1
2
)
10
(
,
k
k
n
C
n
p
U
h
U
p: 1,2,3
(42)
n
th
current harmonic:
1
1
2
)
10
(
,
k
k
n
C
n
p
I
h
I
p: 1,2,3
(43)