Watthour meter accuracy under controlled unbalanced harmonic voltage and current conditions

Journal Article · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1996 · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/61.484002· OSTI ID:218286

Domijan, A Jr; Embriz-Santander, E; Gilani, A ^[1]; Lamer, G; Stiles, C; Williams, Jr, C W ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
2. Florida Power Corp., St. Petersburg, FL (United States)

This work presents the results of phase 1 of the project on the accuracy of watthour meters when subjected to closely-duplicated real-world unbalanced harmonic voltage and current conditions. Such real-world conditions involved differences in voltage and current magnitudes as well as differences in the voltage and current total harmonic distortion levels of each phase. Tests were performed on a selected sample of nine three-phase and three single-phase watthour meters. Some results showed that under a particular set of unbalanced waveforms with harmonic conditions of I{sub THD} > 80% and V{sub THD} > 2%, the percentage errors exhibited by these meters ranged from {minus}10.09% to +0.52%.

• OSTI ID: 218286
• Report Number(s): CONF-950103-; ISSN 0885-8977; TRN: IM9619%%7
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 11, Issue 1; Conference: Winter meeting of the IEEE Power Engineering Society, New York, NY (United States), 29 Jan - 2 Feb 1995; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
POWER METERS
ACCURACY
POWER SYSTEMS
HARMONICS
ELECTRICAL TRANSIENTS