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Chapter L

Power Factor Correction

  • Power factor and Reactive power
    • Definition of Power Factor
    • Definition of reactive power
    • The nature of reactive power
    • Reactive power of capacitors
    • Equipment and appliances requiring reactive energy
    • Practical values of power factor
  • Why improve the power factor?
  • How to improve the power factor?
    • Theoretical principles to improve power factor
    • Equipment to improve power factor
    • The choice between a fixed or automatically-regulated bank of capacitors
  • Where to install power factor correction capacitors?
  • How to determine the optimum level of compensation?
  • Compensation at the terminals of a transformer
    • Compensation to increase the available active power output
    • Compensation of reactive energy absorbed by the transformer
  • Power factor correction of induction motors
  • Example of an installation before and after power-factor correction
  • The effects of harmonics
    • Problems arising from power-system harmonics
    • Risk of resonance due to power-system harmonics
    • Possible solutions for power-system harmonics
  • Implementation of capacitor banks

How to improve the power factor?

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