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Power Factor Correction: A Guide For The Plant Engineer: Technical Data

This document provides guidance for plant engineers on power factor correction and discusses power factor, causes of low power factor, methods for improving power factor including installing power capacitors, capacitor sizing and installation locations, and considerations for capacitor maintenance and code requirements. The document also covers harmonics, sources of harmonics, passive harmonic filtering using harmonic filters, and the importance of system analysis for proper filter application.

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Power Factor Correction: A Guide For The Plant Engineer: Technical Data

This document provides guidance for plant engineers on power factor correction and discusses power factor, causes of low power factor, methods for improving power factor including installing power capacitors, capacitor sizing and installation locations, and considerations for capacitor maintenance and code requirements. The document also covers harmonics, sources of harmonics, passive harmonic filtering using harmonic filters, and the importance of system analysis for proper filter application.

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Effective August 2014 Capacitor banks and

Technical Data SA02607001E Supersedes November 2010 passive harmonic filters

Power factor correction:


a guide for the plant engineer

Contents
Description Page Description Page
Part one: power factor Part two: harmonics
What is power factor? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Should I be concerned about What are harmonics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
low power factor? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What are the consequences
What can I do to improve power factor?. . . . . . . . 4 of high harmonic distortion levels? . . . . . . . . . . . 20
How much can I save by installing IEEE姞 519 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
power capacitors? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 How are harmonics generated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
How can I select the right capacitors What do power factor correction
for my specific application needs? . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 capacitors have to do with harmonics? . . . . . . . . 22
How much kVAR do I need? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 How do I diagnose a potential
Where should I install capacitors harmonics-related problem? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
in my plant distribution system? . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 How can harmonics problems be eliminated? . . 22
Can capacitors be used in nonlinear, What is a passive harmonic filter? . . . . . . . . . . . 22
nonsinusoidal environments? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Do I need to perform a system analysis
What about maintenance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 to correctly apply harmonic filters? . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Code requirements for capacitors . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 What is Eaton’s experience
Useful capacitor formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 in harmonic filtering? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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