Powers and Compensation in Circuits with Nonsinusoidal Current

Powers and compensation in circuits with nonsinusoidal currents discusses one of the most controversial problems in electrical engineering; the definitions of electrical powers and compensation. Many approaches to explain the power properties of electrical circuits and their compensation has occurred over a vast number of publications and referred to as the “schools of power theory (PT)”. These debates have caused substantial confusion in the electrical engineering community. The development of the Current's Physical Components (CPC)-based power theory by the author of this book was a major contribution to the debate on powers and compensation. This book explains all the power-related physical phenomena in electrical circuits and creates fundamentals for compensation in circuits of any complexity with linear and nonlinear loads in single- and three-phase circuits using reactance, switching and hybrid compensators in terms of CPC-power based theory. It also discusses some common misinterpretations of power related phenomena. This book was written as a 'by-product' of more than 30 years of teaching at Louisiana State University of undergraduate and graduate courses on powers and compensation and supervising the development of graduate Msc. theses and Ph.D. dissertations. Therefore, this book can serve as a major reference for teaching power courses and for those involved in studies on powers and compensation in circuits with nonsinusoidal currents.

1 - Doubts and Questions
2 - Sources of Current and Voltage Distortion
3 - Circuits with Nonsinusoidal Currents Analysis
4 - Semi-periodic Voltages and Currents
5 - History of Power Theory Development
6 - CPC and Powers in Single-Phase Circuits
7 - CPC in Three-Phase Three-Wire Circuits
8 - CPC and Powers in Four-Wire Circuits
9 - Overview of Compensation Issues
10 - Reactance Compensator Synthesis
11 - Capacitive Compensation
12 - Resonant Harmonic Filters
13 - Reactance Compensation in Single-Phase Circuits
14 - Reactance Balancing Compensation in Three-Phase Three-Wire Circuits
15 - Reactance Balancing Compensation in Three-Phase Circuits with Neutral
16 - Switching Compensators
17 - Hybrid Compensators
18 - Budeanu's Power Theory Misconceptions
19 - Deficiencies of Fryze's Power Theory
20 - Deficiencies of Kusters and Moore PT
21 - Misinterpretations of the IRP p-q Theory
22 - Conservative PT Misconceptions
23 - Meta-Theory of Electric Power
24 - Miscellaneous Issues

Leszek S. Czarnecki received M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. For two years he was with the Power Engineering Section of the National Research Council of Canada, and for two years with the Electrical Engineering Dept. at Zielona Gora University, Poland. In 1989 Dr. Czarnecki joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. For developing a power theory of three-phase systems with nonsinusoidal and asymmetrical voltages and currents and for methods of compensation he was elected to the grade of Fellow IEEE.