Monitoring of Power Quality Issues, Assessment & Mitigation using Software Platform for College Campus

As technologies are advancing amount of non-linear loads are increasing, which are leading to various issues like sensitive equipment malfunctioning, interruptions, etc. Due to which power quality has become a big concern. To improve the power quality and for solving the issues, study and analysis of system is necessary. This paper includes monitoring of power quality issues in college campus with the help of HIOKI PQ Analyzer PW3198. Study of various power quality events such as voltage sags, swell, interruptions and harmonics is carried out. To reduce these disturbances, mitigation techniques have been introduced, such as passive harmonic filters to reduce harmonic distortion. So overall conclusion is that Power quality maintenance is an important aspect in the economic operation of a system and various power quality problems may lead to another undesirable problems so proper mitigation devices can be used to maintain the level of power quality.