Power quality enhancement in the presence of impulsive noise through novel control

With the emerging smart grid environment, information flow between generation, transmission and distribution centres increases. The huge information flow sometimes creates noise in the form of voltage signals that affects many working areas of the grid, one of which is power quality. Hence, a need arises for a power quality enhancement algorithm that is robust against the noise. Maximum Versoria criteria (MVC)-based control has found many applications in signal processing due to its advantage to reject impulsive noise. In this work, an attempt has been made to deploy MVC to enhance the quality of power flow at the distribution side by targeting issues like harmonics in the current, unbalance in load, voltage management at the point of common coupling (PCC), and reactive power requirement of the load with its ability to work in the impulsive noise. The performance of the algorithm is examined in MATLAB/Simulink as well as in a real-time environment to validate its performance for industrial applications. The algorithm has shown its advantage of less complexity and enhanced performance due to its ability to robustness against noises.