Department of Electrical Engineering

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

EE6244: Power Quality in Power Distribution Systems

Tutorial Sheet-1

Power Quantities in Single Phase System

1. Consider a sinusoidal supply voltage 𝑣(𝑡) = 230√2 sin(ωt) supplying a linear

load of impedance ZL = 12 + j13 Ω at ω = 2𝜋f radian per second, f = 50 Hz.
Express current i(t) as a function of time. Based on 𝑣(𝑡) and i(t) determine the
following.
a) Instantaneous power, instantaneous active power, instantaneous reactive
power, and intrinsic power
b) Real power, Reactive power, Complex power, Apparent power, and power
factor

2. Consider a single-phase inverter used for a domestic purpose that gives square
wave voltage of 50 Hz frequency. What is the nature of the current when (a)
only incandescent lamps are connected (b) only fans (RL load) are connected?
Determine power factor and displacement power factor. Draw the current and
voltage waveforms. Using the Fourier series analysis, determine the
expressions for power factor and fundamental power factor for both the case.

3. Voltage (v) and current (i) of a single-phase line operating at 50 Hz are sampled
at a frequency of 1 kHz. Table-1 provides the sampled data for half a cycle.
Determine the following.

(a) The RMS values V and I of v and I respectively

(b) Apparent power (S), Real power (P), the magnitude of Reactive power
(√𝑆 2 − 𝑃2 ), and power factor
1
(c) Obtain reactive power using 2𝜋 ∮ 𝑣 𝑑𝑖
(d) Is the current leading the voltage or lagging?

Table-1
v 281.7 318.2 323.5 297.1 241.7 162.6 67.6 -34.0 -132.3 -217.6

i 3.54 5.25 6.46 7.03 6.91 6.12 4.73 2.88 0.74 -1.47
4. A load is supplied with a non-sinusoidal voltage that consists of 3rd, 5th, and 7th
harmonics. The instantaneous fundamental and harmonic voltages and
currents are given below
Table-2

Voltages in V Currents in A

𝑣1 = √2 100 sin(ωt-00 ) 𝑖1 = √2 100 sin(ωt-300 )

𝑣3 = √2 8 sin(3ωt-700 ) 𝑖3 = √2 20 sin(3ωt-1650 )

𝑣5 = √2 15 sin(5ωt+1400 ) 𝑖5 = √2 15 sin(5ωt+2340 )

𝑣7 = √2 5 sin(7ωt+200 ) 𝑖7 = √2 10 sin(7ωt+2340 )

a) Determine the individual active power of the fundamental and each

harmonic. Find the total active power and total harmonic active power.
What does the sign of harmonic active power indicate?

b) Determine the individual reactive power of the fundamental and each

harmonic. Find the total reactive power.

c) Find the current distortion power and voltage distortion powers.

d) Find the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) in current and voltage

e) Find the non-fundamental apparent power, harmonic apparent power and

harmonic distortion power