A smart THD meter performing an original uncertainty evaluation procedure

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1257-1264

  De Capua, Claudio ^a   Romeo, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; Power quality (PQ) measurement; Total harmonic distortion (THD) measurement; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

POWER QUALITY MEASUREMENT; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION MEASUREMENT;

CALIBRATION; CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; POWER QUALITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34547873842     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.899895     Document Type: Article

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