A novel approach to current transformer characterization in the presence of harmonic distortion

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1446-1453

  Cataliotti, Antonio ^a   Di Cara, Dario ^a   Emanuel, Alexander E ^b   Nuccio, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Current transformer (CT); Frequency response; Harmonic distortion; Power system harmonics; Transducers

Indexed keywords

CURRENT TRANSFORMER (CT); DISTORTED WAVEFORMS; NON-SINUSOIDAL CURRENTS; OPERATION CONDITIONS; POWER COMPANIES; POWER SYSTEM HARMONICS; RATIO ERRORS;

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ERRORS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER TRANSMISSION;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 67349185056     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2009419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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