Harmonics detection using prony frequency analysis algorithm in transformer inrush current generation after fault clearance

The traditional infrastructure of power system industry is presently going through large amount of change that consensus over the improvement of power quality for fulfilling this requirement electronically automated devices having high sensitivity toward the disturbance in the power system signals are under the major consensus of research activities. The low power quality signal is responsible for malfunctioning of equipments that result in reduction of production and rise in the cost of production. In the modern age electronic convertors, facts and other thyristor controlled devices is combine with the new power transmission schemes. That produces harmonics current of high frequency order and brings large amount of current and voltage quality distortion. In this paper we are investigating and implementing the Prony harmonics analysis algorithm for estimation of harmonics in the voltage cycle available during saturable core transformer energizing the result are validate and compared with the short time Fourier analysis our proposed approach found to be more accurate and aliquant for non linear discrete data signals. Many of the loads installed in present-day power systems are harmonic current generators. Combined with the impedance of the electrical system, the loads also produce harmonic voltages. The nonlinear loads may be viewed as both harmonic current generators and harmonic voltage generators. Until 1970s, speed control of AC motors was primarily achieved using belts and pulleys (9). Now, adjustable speed drives (ASDs) perform speed control functions very efficiently. ASDs are generators of large harmonic currents. Fluorescent lights uses less electrical energy for the same light output as incandescent lighting but produce substantial harmonic currents in the process. Due to increase of personal computer use it has resulted in harmonic current in commercial buildings. Harmonic distortion is no longer a phenomenon confined to industrial equipment and processes, where the first power quality concerns developed. Uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), personal computers (PCs), and electronic and entertaining devices proliferate nowadays in commercial and residential installations. These special kinds of loads represent formidable sources of harmonic currents and they increase with the expanding use of video recorders, digital clocks, and other sensitive electronic equipment.