Trusted Solutions for Power Analysis, Efficiency, and Compliance
A renewable ecosystem consists of interconnected components that harness, store, convert, and distribute energy from renewable sources, each vital for ensuring efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. The industry faces challenges such as improving energy conversion efficiency, maintaining power compliance with stringent standards, and ensuring consistent power quality.
Yokogawa addresses these issues by testing and validating system performance, fostering co-innovation with customers to advance solutions and drive the transition toward a cleaner, more resilient, and sustainable energy future.
The Renewable Ecosystem & Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
Whether generating power or consuming it, there is a universal need to analyze power, efficiency, and meet compliance standards. Yokogawa has unique and powerful analysis solutions to address these needs.
Electric power conversion adapts electrical energy for specific applications. Devices like inverters, rectifiers, and transformers facilitate this process but introduce losses and power quality issues. Accurate characterization of power electronics requires high-precision, traceable measurement instruments.
Energy efficiency measurements are best made with a precision power analyzer, while transient capture can be achieved with a variety of waveform measuring instruments. Traceable measurements ensures Power compliance ensures a product meets industry standards as verified by traceable measurements.
When fractions of a percent matter
This paper explains power efficiency and its relationship with power quality, educates readers on causes and types of power quality issues, and explains various efficiency measurements.
When you need to investigate
This paper provides a guide to basic electric power measurements, addressing the complexities of AC power, including distorted waveforms, fluctuating power factors, and multi-phase techniques.
When you need to comply
Power compliance refers to meeting industry standards and regulations. Selecting the proper instrument is a key determining factor. This application note provides guidance in choosing the right instrument.
Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) charge controllers play a crucial role in the optimization of renewable energy system efficiency and performance. Through dynamic tracking of a renewable energy source’s maximum power point, an MPPT controller enables more efficient energy harvesting, faster charging, and adaptability to changing environmental conditions.
Wind power is a renewable energy source that is being aggressively promoted (particularly in Europe) in order to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gasses that are responsible for global warming
Measuring transformer loss helps ensure safer operation and optimizes delivery of electricity. During testing, low power factor signifies high core losses and requires specialty instruments to more accurately measure power.
Are you achieving the levels of accuracy you need?
This article outlines the top reasons for inaccuracies in power measurements and how to tackle them.
Download the article to learn about:
- Validity of instrument specifications
- External sensors and temperature effects
- Calibrating a measurement set up
Product Overviews
Test and measurement engineering work groups can have differing priorities and requirements, which often results in multiple instrumentation systems and data file formats, as well as incompatible reporting. This lack of effective communication between groups and instruments causes decreased efficiency and quality and increased spending and time to market. Unify test and measurement instrumentation, software, and data across engineering teams with a suite of solutions that caters to the different needs of engineering work groups, including accurate power data, fast sampling rates, long recordings of multiple different input types, and insights into waveform data.
How-tos
This video demonstrates how to test to an IEC standard (IEC 61000) using a Yokogawa Test&Measurement WT5000 Precision Power Analyzer and the harmonic flicker testing software. The software automates the process of judging if the device under test is compliant with the chosen standard and allows you to output the necessary test reports for your records.
This video demonstrates how to measure transient phenomena on power signals using the Yokogawa Test&Measurement PX8000 Precision Power Scope.
In several applications, especially those testing AC power to a standard such as IEC61000-3-11, the voltage and current signals must be monitored to confirm there are no major dips and/or swells in the signal. This can be done with instruments capable of reporting rms values, including power analyzers, traditional oscilloscopes, and some data acquisition systems.
To test to a standard, however, the instrument must have an accuracy spec that is traceable back to a national standard of calibration such as ISO17025 or NIST.
Testing AC panel meters using an AC Voltage and Current Standard
How to Test Capacity of a Lead Acid Battery with a Source Measure Unit
Webinars
- A look at multi-phase measurements and measurement techniques
- A review of practical applications
- Real-world examples
Although DC power measurements can be fairly straightforward, complexities with AC power measurements arise when dealing with distorted waveforms, fluctuating power factors, and multiple phases, which introduce intricacies that complicate an otherwise simple measurement process.
This on-demand webinar provides an informative dive into the various fundamental aspects of power measurement and includes:
Yokogawa Test&Measurement announces that its WT5000 Precision Power Analyzer has been used by Solar Team Twente to win the first ever Solar Challenge Morocco. The WT5000 helped Solar Team Twente to squeeze every last watt out of its car’s solar power system, ensuring it crossed the finish line of the 2,500 km course in first place.
By using the Yokogawa WT5000 Precision Power Analyzer, Società Elettromeccanica Arzignanese S.p.A (SEA), an Italian manufacturer of power transformer and reactors with a worldwide reputation for engineering excellence and high production quality, is able to closely match the efficiency performance guarantee that it makes to a customer, with the actual performance of the transformer.
