Power Factor Improvement by Engaging Appropriate Number of Shunt Capacitor

Abstract

Poor power factor which results due to wasted energy capacity is often ignored or overlooked. It results in various safety problem and high cost for generation of energy. Low power factor makes your system less economical to operate. The actual which is being dissipated in circuit is called true power. The reactive power is generated through various loads such as capacitors and inductors. Combination of these two powers is called apparent power. Load can be any type such as it can be inductive, resistive and capacitive. Inductive load working in such operation are loads are transformer, reactors and Induction motors. Capacitive loads includes capacitor, variable or fixed capacitor bank, generators and synchronous motors.