A Hybrid Compression Method for Compound Power Quality Disturbance Signals in Active Distribution Networks

Abstract

In the compression of massive compound power quality disturbance (PQD) signals in active distribution networks, the compression ratio (CR) and reconstruction error (RE) act as a pair of contradictory indicators, and traditional compression algorithms have difficulties in simultaneously satisfying a high CR and low RE. To improve the CR and reduce the RE, a hybrid compression method that combines a strong tracking Kalman filter (STKF), sparse decomposition, Huffman coding, and run-length coding is proposed in this study. This study first uses a sparse decomposition algorithm based on a joint dictionary to separate the transient component (TC) and the steady-state component (SSC) in the PQD. The TC is then compressed by wavelet analysis and by Huffman and run-length coding algorithms. For the SSC, values that are greater than the threshold are reserved, and the compression is finally completed. In addition, the threshold of the wavelet depends on the fading factor of the STKF to obtain a high CR. Experimental results of real-life signals measured by fault recorders in a dynamic simulation laboratory show that the CR of the proposed method reaches as high as 50 and the RE is approximately 1.6%, which are better than those of competing methods. These results demonstrate the immunity of the proposed method to the interference of Gaussian noise and sampling frequency.

Keywords

• Signal compression
• power quality disturbance
• Huffman coding
• run-length coding
• wavelet analysis
• sparse decomposition