Research Proposal

Name: Engr. MH Mohamed Safnas Kariapper (PGD in EI, BSc (Hons) in EE,AMISL,MSCE)

Profession: Electrical Engineer

Phone Number: +966 53 24 678 24

Email ID: safnas.mhm@gmail.com

A) Title:

Identification and predictive maintenance of electrical appliances via analyzing the

harmonics in voltage and current waveform.

B) Research Problem:

Generally utility and consumer side want information about switched on electrical appliances and
its behavior in a supply point/point of common coupling to have decision on demand side
management and to provide reliable and resilient electrical power supply to consumers. Anyhow
that kind of studies and decision making based on queries in a paper application while getting the
utility power at first place or deploying employees to get information periodically.

C) Hypothesis

Appliances can be identified and, proceed the preventive maintenance by analyzing the generated
harmonics in voltage and current waveform at different power levels.

D) Brief background of the research problem

 Today, major public concern is energy efficiency.

 It is known that energy can be saved through behavioral changes of the customers.
 Saving energy is not only financially profitable to consumer but also helps to reduce
the pollutant emissions too.
 Due to significant human-influenced climate change, individuals are motivated to
reduce their energy consumption and wastage by different organizations and
governments.
 Load recognition and monitoring are essential in order to achieve right behavioral
patterns.
 Consumer awareness of electricity consumption for specific appliances and devices in
homes may be the most effective type of energy feedback.
 In these days consumers can’t get this kind of appliance data in order to correct their
behavioral patterns and manage energy consumption.
 From this effort appliance –level demand identification can be achieved. That means
it helps to identify appliance-level demand in a household and hence to identify
electricity consumption for specific appliances.
 This research project proposes method or algorithm to load identification in
nonintrusive load monitoring system. Nonintrusive load monitoring is the process of
determining what the appliances are working at any time in the house as well as their
individual energy consumption.
 This is achieved by analyzing changes in current and voltage profiles of that
household. In this method disaggregate a household’s total electricity consumption
into its contributing appliances.