Estudio de la calidad de energía eléctrica en el sistema eléctrico de la planta Cautivo de Refinería La Libertad, en la provincia de Santa Elena.

Abstract

Power quality is generally associated with the energy efficiency of a piece of equipment, a building or an industry; the term power quality according to IEEE Std. 1159, refers to a wide variety of electromagnetic phenomena that occur in a given time, in an electrical system and that directly influence the waveform of voltage and current; when the expression electromagnetic phenomena is used, it refers to "abnormal" changes or events of transient nature of undesired short and long duration that originate in electrical networks, degrading and distorting the sinusoidal waveform. In different technical and scientific texts, the expression electromagnetic disturbances is also used; these disturbances or electromagnetic phenomena are originated in the electrical networks on the consumer side, due to the increased use of equipment with inductive loads and the use of automated systems applications with power electronics, hence the growing interest in their study in recent times, also accompanied by the increase in the operating problems of electrical equipment, especially by the rise of the fourth industrial revolution and the optimization of resources within the industry; On the other hand, the final consumer always wants to obtain a high quality power supply without interference or disturbances from the electric companies that provide the service.