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ECE 530 - Power Quality and Power Disturbance Analysis

Course Career Graduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Engineering
Department Electrical & Computer Engg
Typically Offered either term

Description
Introduction to power disturbances and power quality; Generation, characterization, mitigation and analysis of key power disturbances: harmonics, voltage sags and swells, and electromagnetic transients. Disturbance signal processing; Case studies using transients and harmonics programs; Application of power quality standards and practical aspects of power quality assessment; custom power technologies; Power signaling technology, i.e. applications of power disturbances for information transmission and extraction purposes; Generation of disturbances for power line communication and active condition monitoring; Current developments.