Direct Water Heater Power Control For Reduced Harmonics And Flicker Content With Optimized Half-cycle Power Control

Abstract

This paper presents an optimized Half-Cycle Power Control for Direct Water Heater with reduced harmonic content and flicker control. The method is presented, as well as results of theoretical analysis supported by experimental results.

Keywords

• Cycle-by-cycle power control
• direct water heater
• half-cycle power control
• harmonics and power quality
• integral-cycle power control
• flicker