Assessing the benefits and risks of application of inverter drives in industry

Author

Leonowicz, Zbigniew ; Lempart, Andrzej

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Wroclaw Univ. of Technol., Wroclaw, Poland

fYear

2012

fDate

18-25 May 2012

Firstpage

144

Lastpage

148

Abstract

This paper presents the impact assessment of converters installed in an industrial plant on the power quality in internal power grid of the plant. The analysis of real measurements showed that the installation of inverter drives, despite many benefits, as energy savings, that have been reported in the paper, can also cause many problems. We observed multiple issues related to failures in the control and automation systems that could be due to the interference generated by simultaneous operation of inverter drives.

Keywords

electric drives; energy conservation; failure analysis; industrial plants; interference suppression; invertors; power convertors; power grids; power supply quality; power system measurement; risk analysis; automation system; benefits; converter impact assessment; energy saving; failure analysis; industrial plant; interference; inverter drive; power grid; power quality; power system measurement; risk analysis; Control systems; Harmonic analysis; Inverters; Power harmonic filters; Power quality; Voltage fluctuations; converter drives; electric power drives; harmonic distortion; power quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2012 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1830-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2012.6221562

Filename

6221562