A novel instantaneous power factor measurement method based on wavelet transform

Abstract

Power factor monitoring is an important challenge in deregulated environment to maintain quality in delivered power as well as tariff assessment. In this paper, a unique power factor measurement method has been proposed that can measure the instantaneous power factor of a non-sinusoidal single-phase system accurately at every sample instant. The wavelet transform (WT) has been utilized for multiresolution analysis (MRA) of current waveform. The scheme has been implemented in real time with a Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320VC5416 digital signal processor (DSP) along with data acquisition system card PCI-02. The result has been found to be satisfactory