Evaluation of the VLSS-LMS Method Parameters’ Influence on the Effective Estimation of Power System Current and Voltage Harmonics Content

Nowadays, power quality is considered as a major concern that is faced by electrical energy producer, consumers, industries and researchers. Whereas one among the main issues in such concern is the current and voltage harmonics detection, mitigation and compensation. Indeed, the proliferation of harmonics in power system can create serious problems within all levels and their impacts along the whole power system from the production to the end users can lead to critical technical and economic situations. Therefore, their accurate detection in real time is of great importance and interest where many techniques have been proposed for solving such major problem. The work presented in this paper deals with the evaluation of a technique that has been proposed for the estimation of harmonic content in a signal based on iterative computing technique. This technique is based on several keystone parameters, which have major influences on the accuracy of the identification of the different harmonics without the need of a costly computation, and that can be easily implemented and performed in real-time. It is worthy to clarify that the technique under investigation in this paper is the based on the idea of adaptive filtering process called the Variable length Step Size- Least mean squares method (VLSS-LMS), it is basically very sensitive to three main parameters such as the sampling frequency, the step size value and the measurement window. The evaluation of the effects of these parameters have been assessed based on simulation testes of a specific original signal containing harmonics components. The obtained simulation results clearly prove the optimal choices of the aforementioned parameters in ensuring precise estimation of the harmonics content and the reconstruction of the estimated signal with high precision and minimized average error.