Flicker Source Tracing by Wavelet Transform

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Flicker Source Tracing by Wavelet Transform

Moghadam Banayem, Hadi

In the present day, voltage fluctuations (flicker) have received more attention by both utilities and consumers. Flicker mitigation needs identification of the flicker sources. After identifying the flicker sources, it would also be possible to penalize the relevant utility or the consumers. In this article, a new method based on flicker power theory and wavelet transform is proposed to identify the locations of single and multiple flicker sources in a multi-flicker source power network. The wavelet transform is utilized for demodulation and then the total flicker powers are computed by adding the flicker power belongs to individual flicker frequency components. The method also computes the contributions of each consumer and utility to the global flicker level of a common coupling busbar. For validation, the IEEE 13-bus network is simulated and an algorithm for flicker sources tracing is tested. Time-domain simulations in MATLAB/Simulink (The MathWorks, Natick, Massachusetts, USA) are performed to examine the accuracy of the proposed method. Simulation results show that by using the proposed method, all flicker sources and their contributions on the global flicker level can be detected correctly. To assess the performance of the proposed algorithm, the comparison with the most well-known methods has been presented.