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IEEE Recommended Practices and Requirements for Harmonic Control in Electrical Power Systems, IEEE Std 519-1992

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This slim volume (100 pages) is an excellent companion to the IEEE color book series, adding information I found necessary. It has helped me understand what I'm looking at when using a harmonics analyzer like the Fluke 41B, it explains *how* some harmonics control devices work, and gives many approaches for harmonics control.

If your applications are mostly isolated power systems such as marine systems that have no connection to a public utility, this manual is virtually useless. All definitions, limits, and procedures are geared for utility systems that utilize heavy motor or sinusoidal loads with little or no harmonic distortion generated that are the sigificant majority of the power system loading. For isolated power systems where the large power consumers such as solid state motor drives, electronic equipment, etc. are 80-90% of the total load, this standard is rendered virtually useless in those applications because the Point of Common Coupling is the entire power grid. This makes this standard very difficult to meet without costly draconian measures that sometimes make projects economically unfeasible.