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In particular, the spectral content of typical current waveforms is characterized by a strong fundamental term responsible for harmonic distortion affecting the frequency components at the secondary side. In turn, this has a significant impact on the accuracy that can be reached as long as current harmonics must be monitored. The target of this work is implementing a simple signal processing technique that allows compensating for this effect. The method, characterized by extremely low computational complexity, is first introduced and validated using numerical simulations. After this, it was tested experimentally to improve the harmonic measurement capability of inductive CTs. The achieved results highlight a noticeable reduction of errors at low-order harmonics over a wide range of primary current amplitudes. It is worth noting that the black-box approach makes the technique suitable also for compensating nonlinearities introduced by current transducers based on different operating principles. Thanks to this peculiarity and to the low computational complexity, the proposed method is suitable to be employed in power quality analyzers and merging units. In this way, high-accuracy monitoring of current harmonics in power systems can be achieved, opening the way to advanced power quality management and to the location of disturbing users.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21092907","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,21]],"date-time":"2021-04-21T21:25:10Z","timestamp":1619040310000},"page":"2907","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["A Simple Method for Compensating Harmonic Distortion in Current Transformers: Experimental Validation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6011-6246","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christian","family":"Laurano","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico S.p.A., via Rubattino 54, 20134 Milano, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2317-5818","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sergio","family":"Toscani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Politecnico di Milano\u2014DEIB, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2651-1322","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michele","family":"Zanoni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico S.p.A., via Rubattino 54, 20134 Milano, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4571","DOI":"10.3390\/en7074571","article-title":"Saturation detection-based blocking scheme for transformer differential protection","volume":"7","author":"Lee","year":"2014","journal-title":"Energies"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"565","DOI":"10.1109\/87.930967","article-title":"Compensation of nonlinearities in a current transformer for the reconstruction of the primary current","volume":"9","author":"Bittanti","year":"2001","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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