COMPARISONS OF THE EXECUTION TIMES AND MEMORY REQUIREMENTS FOR HIGH-SPEED DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS AND FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS, FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF AC POWER HARMONICS

A. J. Roscoe, G. M. Burt
Abstract:
Conventional wisdom dictates that a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) will be a more computationally effective method for measuring multiple harmonics than a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) approach. However, in this paper it is shown that carefully coded discrete transforms which distribute their computational load over many frames can be made to produce results in shorter execution times than the FFT approach, even for large number of harmonic measurement frequencies. This is because the execution time of the presented DFT actually rises with N and not the classical N2 value, while the execution time of the FFT rises with Nlog2N.
Keywords:
power system harmonics, harmonic analysis, Fourier transforms, power quality
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Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC20
Event name:
Joint IMEKO TC11 TC19 TC20 International Symposia
Title:

Metrological Infrastructure, Environmental And Energy Measurements

Place:
Cavtat, CROATIA
Time:
15 June 2011 - 17 June 2011