The ideal electric power system contains only elements that generate, transmit, or receive undistorted fundamental frequency voltages and currents. Several devices are responsible for introducing harmonics of pure fundamental frequency waveforms into power systems. If significant enough in amplitude, these harmonics can have a detrimental effect on the performance and life of power system elements.
A tool commonly used to analyze the power system under normal balanced three- phase sinusoidal steady-state conditions, is called a power flow. However, to this date, the only power flows which are readily available in textbook form, assume pure fundamental frequency voltages and currents throughout the power system.
It is the primary intent of this thesis, to take an available Newton-Raphson based Harmonic Power Flow algorithm, and provide a "textbook" type derivation. This algorithm eliminates the assumption of purely sinusoidal voltages and currents in a three- phase power system operating under normal balanced steady-state conditions.