Non-linear loads such as personal computers, monitors, laser printers, variable speed drives. UPS systems and other electronic equipments have led to harmonics being a major issue in the electrical industry today. Commercial and industrial power distribution systems designed for the old, linear-style loads are simply no longer suitable for servicing these non-linear, harmonic generating loads. Some common power system problems include:
The Need to Treat Harmonics
Benefits
passive electromagnetic device that diverts 3rd and other triplen harmonic currents from the neutral conductor |