Electrical Power Quality of Iron and Steel Industry in Turkey

Salor O., Gultekin B., Buhan S., Boyrazoglu B., Inan T., Atalik T., ...Daha Fazla

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, cilt.46, sa.1, ss.60-80, 2010 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 46 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2010
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/tia.2009.2036547
  • Dergi Adı: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.60-80
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Arc furnace, flicker, group harmonic, interharmonic-flicker relation, interharmonics, iron and steel industry, ladle furnace, power quality (PQ), single-line harmonic, subgroup harmonic, FLICKER, INTERHARMONICS
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The iron and steel industry has been growing increasingly in Turkey in the last decade. Today, its electricity demand is nearly one tenth of the installed generation capability of 40 GW in the country. In this paper, power quality (PQ) investigations based on the arc furnace installations of the iron and steel plants using field measurements according to the international standard IEC 61000-4-30 are documented. Interharmonics and voltage flicker problems occurring both at the common-coupling points of those plants and at the arc furnace and static var compensator (SVC) systems of the plants themselves are determined with the use of GPS receiver synchronization modules attached to the mobile PQ measurement systems. It has been observed that flicker and interharmonic problems are dominant at the points of common couplings where arc furnace installations are supplied. Based on the field measurements obtained with collaborative work of five arc furnace plants, it is possible to say that contemporary SVC systems cause interharmonic amplification problems around the second harmonic, and novel methods are required to solve this problem.