Title
Improvement of Hall Effect Current Transducer Metrological Performances in the Presence of Harmonic Distortion
Abstract
The performance of Hall effect current transducers (HECTs), under distorted waveform conditions, is usually characterized by means of a frequency response test. In this paper, it was investigated if frequency response is able to correctly evaluate the ratio and the phase errors under distorted conditions. Two HECTs, with the accuracy class level of 1% and 0.5%, respectively, were experimentally characterized under two conditions: 1) sinusoidal excitation with frequencies ranging from 50 to 750 Hz, which is the well-known frequency response test, and 2) nonsinusoidal excitation using fundamental frequency and one harmonic with adjusted amplitude and phase shift. It was found that ratio and phase errors are weakly affected by the harmonic amplitude and phase shift, with respect to the fundamental in the accuracy level of 0.1% and 0.05°. They have, instead, a strong dependence from conductor location in the HECT window. These results suggest that the frequency response approach for the evaluation of HECT performance, under distorted waveform conditions, can be used for an error compensation method only if the position of the primary conductor is known. An error compensation method, based on the frequency response, was implemented and tested with a distorted waveform composed of fundamental and many harmonics. For each of the harmonic components, the errors were reduced to one tenth of the measured ones.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TIM.2009.2038308
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hall effect transducers,electric current measurement,error compensation,frequency response,harmonic distortion,current measurement,current transducer,distorted waveform conditions,error compensation method,frequency 50 Hz to 750 Hz,frequency response test,hall effect,harmonic distortion,phase errors,Current measurement,current transducer,frequency response,hall effect devices,harmonic distortion,power system harmonics
Total harmonic distortion,Fundamental frequency,Frequency response,Waveform,Harmonic,Electronic engineering,Harmonics,Acoustics,Amplitude,Mathematics,Phase (waves)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
59
5
0018-9456
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.52
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Cataliotti120445.22
Di Cara, D.2325.60
Alexander E. Emanuel3123.15
Salvatore Nuccio411024.90