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Harmonic Filter testing and simulation

Dylan Wilding

Hoping to gain some advice and insight into harmonic filter testing and simulation.

I'm hoping to perform a practical lab on the effects on power quality on a piece of equipment (preferably a VSD) with and without a harmonic filter. The aim being to tie it back to overall plant power consumption and how over a certain time period due to the increase in efficiency it will pay for itself in X time period. 

Could anyone recommend the following:

A computer software to simulate / model this such as a manufacturers software. I already have MATLAB to use however an actual manufacture software with product data would be really useful

A small practical rig that could be used to perform the actual practical lab. My current college is in the process of completing a lab refurbishment so i should be ok to do it at the college however i would like some sort of back up if possible. 

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    With regards software, if you're looking at the wider system rather than the box itself, simulations of power quality on power systems are done using specialist packages like Digsilent PowerFactory or ETAP.

    It's probably OTT but depending on the level you're aiming at it might be worth looking that way in case they can do something for educational purposes; that said we don't use it (instead hand over to specialists when need arises) so apologies if it's a dead-end.

    Slightly blue-sky thought: There might also be open source implementations of similar... maybe not sufficiently proven for a consulant's report but good enough for educational demos. I know there are Python projects out there for other power system studies created for academic use, but again haven't used them myself. Unlikely to come with product data though.

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    With regards software, if you're looking at the wider system rather than the box itself, simulations of power quality on power systems are done using specialist packages like Digsilent PowerFactory or ETAP.

    It's probably OTT but depending on the level you're aiming at it might be worth looking that way in case they can do something for educational purposes; that said we don't use it (instead hand over to specialists when need arises) so apologies if it's a dead-end.

    Slightly blue-sky thought: There might also be open source implementations of similar... maybe not sufficiently proven for a consulant's report but good enough for educational demos. I know there are Python projects out there for other power system studies created for academic use, but again haven't used them myself. Unlikely to come with product data though.

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