IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF POWER BY PROPER POWER QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Power Quality Management plays an important role in improving power quality. The fundamental goal of energy management is to produce goods and provide services with the least cost and least environmental effect. The term energy management means many things to many people The objective of Energy Management is to achieve and maintain optimum energy procurement and utilization, throughout the organization and To minimize energy costs / waste without affecting production & quality, To minimize environmental effects. The strategy of adjusting and optimizing energy, using systems and procedures so as to reduce energy requirements per unit of output while holding constant or reducing total costs of producing the output from these systems.

Management always keeps an eye to the monitoring equipment to monitor currents, voltages, harmonics and power as performance values for supporting network plans and operational which support power systems availability, efficiency, reliability. The process of power Quality disturbance analysis is mainly depends upon four steps, detentions, classification, characterization and location.

Recent improvement in thermal image processing has developed Infrared thermo graphic inspection which can help to protect the equipment in business, home facility through infrared imaging, detecting problems that can become expensive and time consuming if not corrected. The inspection can be performed on all the types of electrical equipment and will determine if abnormal conditions exist when equipment is operating, a situation which can lead to electrical or mechanical failure.

Power system, SCADA concepts, real time monitoring, wide are measurements system. The current necessity for more and more energy in all the industrial sectors brings a variety of challenges for Engineers involved in power system control. The requirements of proper power system management cannot be achieved without supervisory control system. SCADA system has replaced the old and inefficient power quality measuring equipments. SCADA in power system has improved the power quality management very much.