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Power quality is a very important issue that should be addressed as poor power quality costs money and in some cases downtime. We will look at some direct and indirect costs attributed to power quality. Direct cost is the loss of production due to a voltage problem, which trips motor and control devices that stop the manufacturing process. It is the loss of products not produced and the labor charges for removing any damaged materials as well as employee wages paid while waiting for the process to restart. Indirect cost is the replacement of other equipment that becomes stressed by changing electrical voltages. As an example, a solid-state motor drive fails due to voltage spikes over time. These are commonly caused by power factor capacitors switching on and off line to correct varying power factors. However, the failure and subsequent damage to the machine will be untimely because is not caused by any one spike but by numerous spikes occurring and over a period of time. With this type of power quality damage, it is impossible to avoid the outage.
The "Journal of Recent Trends of Electrical Engineering," affiliated with Swami Vivekananda University, is now available yearly starting from 2024. This peer-reviewed open-access e-journal encompasses various branches of Electrical Engineering.