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Power Factor Corrector Calculation: System Parameters

The document calculates the power factor correction needed for a 3 phase system with 45 kW of load power at 0.6 power factor. It determines that a 32.11 kVAR capacitor bank is needed to correct the power factor to 0.85. It recommends using a 36 kVAR bank consisting of three 12 kVAR capacitors connected in delta, with each capacitor rated at 200.57 uF.

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Power Factor Corrector Calculation: System Parameters

The document calculates the power factor correction needed for a 3 phase system with 45 kW of load power at 0.6 power factor. It determines that a 32.11 kVAR capacitor bank is needed to correct the power factor to 0.85. It recommends using a 36 kVAR bank consisting of three 12 kVAR capacitors connected in delta, with each capacitor rated at 200.57 uF.

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Leo Marcelo Villalba
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Power Factor Corrector Calculation

System Parameters
Voltage : 230 V Choose Voltage
Phase : 3
Frequency : 60 Hz
Load Parameters
Power Factor (Uncorrected) : 0.6000 Input uncorrected Power Factor
Power Factor (Corrected) : 0.8500 Input wanted Power Factor
Load Power (kW) : 45.00 Input Load Power in kW

Calculation Table (Capacitor Bank)


P (kW) Q (kVAR) PF ϴ Qcorrector = Q(Corrected) - Q(Uncorrected)

Uncorrected : 45.00 60.00 0.6 53.13 Qcorrected = (Pload/PFnew)*(sin(acos(Pfnew)))

Corrector : 0.0000 -32.11 0.0000 90 Pload (corrected) = Pload(uncorrected) + P(corrector)

Corrected : 45.00 27.89 0.8500 31.79

Capacitor Bank Rating : -32.11 kVAR


Recommended Bank Rating (Q) : 36.00 kVAR Input Recommended Bank rating based on Computed bank rating

No. Of Parallel Capacitors : 3 Input Number of parallel caps to meet Recommended Bank Rating

kVAR Rating for Each Capacitor : 12 kVAR Reference Manufacturer: TDK Film Capacitors - Power factor correction

Capacitance (C), DELTA CONNECT : 200.57 uF x3 Capacitance Calculation is based on Recommended Bank Rating

Reactance (Xc) : 13.23 Ω Q/3 = (V^2)/Xc = (V^2)*(2πfC)


Line Current (I) : 30.12 A C = Q/(3*(V^2)*(2πf))
Xc = 1/(2πfC)
Note: Capacitance can be paralleled to reduce individual uF Rating. I = sqrt(3)*(V/Xc)

Load Power = 45
kW
PF = 0.60 LAG

The kVAR Needed to correct the power factor from 0.6000 LAG to 0.8500 LAG is 32.11 kVAR.
Therefore: Use 3 - 12 kVAR, 230 Vac, Delta connected, 3x200.5 uF, 60 Hz Capacitors
leo marcelo p. Villalba

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