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Course unit, curriculum year 2023–2024
EE.EES.420

Electric Power Quality, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 2 (23.10.2023–31.12.2023)
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
Course code
EE.EES.420
Language of instruction
English
Academic years
2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2023–2024
Level of study
Intermediate studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Pertti Pakonen
Responsible teacher:
Antti Hilden
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Electrical Engineering Studies 100 %

Ydinsisältö

  • Power quality fundamentals, terms and definitions, power quality standards and recommendations, power quality management principles
  • Flicker and rapid voltage changes: measurement methods, causes and mitigation methods
  • Voltage Dips: characterization, causes, computational evaluation, effects and mitigation
  • Harmonics, interharmonics and supraharmonics: measurement methods, causes and effects, resonant effects
  • Power concepts and reactive power: causes and management, active and passive solutions for reactive power compensation and filtering
  • Power supply interruptions: monitoring and statistics, causes, mitigation
  • Electric and magnetic fields: basic theory, measurement and assessment, effects and mitigation methods
  • Measurement and monitoring of power quality: basic theory (sensors, sampling and quantizing the sensor signals), hardware and software tools used in power quality investigations and assessment, utilization of power quality data
Learning outcomes
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Course completion requires both passing the exam and completing the course laboratory work. Partial completions of the course must be carried out during the same course implementation round.
Completion of all options is required.

Participation in teaching

24.10.2023 11.12.2023
Active in period 2 (23.10.2023–31.12.2023)

Exam

12.12.2023 12.12.2023
Active in period 2 (23.10.2023–31.12.2023)
23.01.2024 23.01.2024
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
20.03.2024 20.03.2024
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)