Title :
Power quality issues with medical electronics equipment in hospitals
Author :
Rao, Uma ; Singh, S.N. ; Thakur, Chandan Kumar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Jamshedpur, India
Abstract :
This paper describes power quality audits conducted at hospitals in India. Voltage, current and power measured at various points were used to assess the quality of the power. The main power quality problems found in hospitals were voltage flicker, neutral currents, and harmonic distortion (THD) value. Measurement, analysis and conditioning of power quality has been studied in few different hospitals as a case study. Recommendation have been made to mitigate the issue.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; electric current measurement; hospitals; power measurement; power supply quality; voltage measurement; current measurement; harmonic distortion; hospital equipment; medical electronics equipment; neutral currents; power measurement; power quality; voltage flicker; voltage measurement; Conferences; Electronic equipment; Hospitals; Industrial electronics; Power quality; Service robots; Flickering; Neutral Current; Power quality; Total Harmonic Distortions; harmonic distortion; voltage disturbances;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, Control & Robotics (IECR), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orissa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8544-4
DOI :
10.1109/IECR.2010.5720150
