Proceedings: Power quality for end-use applications conference, 1988

Conference · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6830485

Ferrer, M; Koeturius, C; Rabinovitch, W; Rosenwasser, P ^[1]

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1. TEM Associates, Inc., Emeryville, CA (USA)

At the Power Quality for End-Use Conference, over 255 participants representing the electric utility industry, end users, power conditioning equipment manufacturers, universities, and government met from March 8-10, 1988 in San Antonio, Texas to discuss the numerous power quality issues related to new technologies. Because of the increasing use of microprocessors and sensitive digital circuitry in residential, commercial, and industrial applications, concern has arisen over the quality of electric power being supplied, particularly in regards to transient voltage, voltage flicker, and voltage variations. During the early 1980s, utility customers began discovering that their electronic equipment sometimes did not operate properly when exposed to power disturbances. Today extremely rapid advances in new electronic equipment that is ultrasensitive to power quality have posed major challenges to the utility industry. These challenges demand immediate attention. Therefore, EPRI organized the Power Quality for End-Use Applications Conference to help all involved parties better understand power quality issues and how to mitigate their adverse effects. Twenty-one presentation were given in ten sessions which addressed such issues as: sensitive equipment design and specification requirements; proper grounding and wiring practices; power monitoring and measuring techniques; end-user options for power quality assurance; mitigation equipment applications and selection; the need for power quality standards; and solving power quality problems.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); TEM Associates, Inc., Emeryville, CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: EPRI
• OSTI ID: 6830485
• Report Number(s): EPRI-CU-6884; CONF-8803268--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
240201 -- Power System Networks
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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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ABSTRACTS
COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
EPRI
EQUIPMENT
FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS
LEADING ABSTRACT
MANUFACTURERS
MEASURING METHODS
PLANNING
POWER
POWER DISTRIBUTION
PUBLIC UTILITIES
QUALITY ASSURANCE
SENSITIVITY
STANDARDS
SYSTEM FAILURE ANALYSIS
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
TRANSIENTS
VARIATIONS