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Mar 30,2021
Why harmonics analysis? When a voltage and/or current waveform is distorted, it causes abnormal operating conditions in a power system such as: Voltage Harmonics can cause additional heating in induction and synchronous motors and generators. Voltage Harmonics with high peak values can weaken insulation in cables, windings, and capacitors. Voltage Harmonics can cause malfunction of different elect...
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Apr 12,2021
Power Quality Solutions and Energy Savings One of the most significant changes in the Power Quality industry in the past five years is the method of selling Power Quality solutions. Originally, Power Quality solutions were sold as an insurance policy to avoid potential damage from power disturbances such as transients,voltage sags, interruptions or harmonics. Today, many Power Qu...
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Apr 17,2021
Many facilities have mandates to save energy. Improving energy efficiency offers huge advantages to businesses—reducing the costs of energy and operations— and increasing sustainability. Ⅰ. Abstract Through proven methods including variable frequency drives (VFD), LED lighting and conservation methods and control, many new and existing facilities achieve the savings that they expect. However, many...
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Apr 26,2021
Power Factor Penalty An electric rate may also include additional charges when the customer has a power factor less than some preset limit, typically between 80 and 90 percent. This is called a power factor penalty since it is a penalty assessed on the customers electrical bill for lower than optimum power factor. Special devices called capacitors can be installed by either the utility or the cust...
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May 13,2021
The climate is changing - but are you? Changes in the way you live your life - both big and small - can help you reduce your own personal carbon footprint, and also encourage policy makers to act for the good of the planet. Below is a list of several easy things you can do right now to help fight climate change. The greatest threat faced by this generation is climate change. Because without a habi...
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May 27,2021
Upgrading Older Capacitor Banks is Important As an inexpensive source of reactive power, capacitor banks bring many benefits to a facility. They are widely deployed to avoid penalties on utility bills, lower distribution losses, increase transformer/Genset capacity, maintain nominal voltage, and to reduce energy losses resulting in decreased carbon emissions. When coupled with reactors, capa...
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Jun 16,2021
Power factor penalty in power bills We've found that many people struggle to understand how Power Factor (PF) impacts demand charges. Frequently, end use customers pay a significant premium each month in demand charges because their PF is below a threshold set by the utility in the rate tariff. Oftentimes its not obvious to the untrained eye when there are extra charges associated with a bad PF on...
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Jun 24,2021
As an inexpensive source of reactive power, capacitor banks bring many benefits to a facility. They are widely deployed to avoid penalties on utility bills, lower distribution losses, increase transformer/Genset capacity, maintain nominal voltage, and to reduce energy losses resulting in decreased carbon emissions. When coupled with reactors, capacitor banks can filter harmonics generated by...
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Jul 22,2021
An example of how to calculate the capacity of reactive power (kVAr)? An Motor is supplying a load of 700 kW at a P.F (Power factor) of 0.65. What size of Capacitor in kVAr is required to raise the P.F (Power Factor) to unity (1)? And how many more kW can the motor supply for the same kVA loading when P.F improved. Supplying kW = 700 kW Original P.F = Cosθ1 = 0.65 Final P.F = Cosθ2 = 1 θ1 = C...
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Aug 24,2021
Why does the power factor need to be corrected at MV? Reactive power compensation is essential for the correct technical and economical management of an MV Networks. Its benefits are: Economic benefits — Reduced billable reactive energy costs (surcharges by country and tariff) — Reduced hidden economic cost from the Joule effect in transport lines — Enables a better use ratio (kW/kVA) for installa...
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Sep 07,2021
Formulas of Related Harmonics The following calculator computes the total harmonic current distortion (THDc or THDi), Peak Current, RMS Current, and Crest Factor based on individual harmonic current distortion values between the 1st and the 50th harmonic. Input the fundamental current and individual harmonic currents to compute THDc(THDi) also to view a waveform plot based on the input values. The...
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Sep 13,2021
Benefits by installing power factor correction systems? Power factor correction systems provide much benefit: Reduced electricity utility bills Your electric utility provides working (kW) and reactive power (kVAR) to your plant in the form of apparent power (kVA). While reactive power (kVAR) doesn’t register on kW demand or kW hour meters, the utility’s transmission and distribution system must be...
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Oct 09,2021
Power capacitors are very beneficial in power networks. They provide reactive power required by motors, transformers, etc. This increases the transmission capacity and reduces losses thanks to higher power factors. They enable the power factor targets of the utilities to be met. Power capacitors and series reactors are also a key component in various filter solutions that reduce harmonic cont...
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Oct 15,2021
Overview Rapid growth of inductive electric loads on utility networks has impacted the efficient operation of AC electrical transmission and distribution grid by increasing the need for reactive power (VAr/kVAr/MVAr) that are required to be supplied with active power. Install capacitor banks to reduce the reactive power demand from point of generation to point of use in high voltage networks. Brin...
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Nov 13,2021
ZDDQ products offer a power quality solution, which allows users to select features to meet their applications needs. The capacitor bank offers customers system benefits such as: • Improved Power Factor • System capacity release • Reduced losses • Improved power flow • Cost savings Capacitors are needed in the different parts of the network as part of reactive power compensation and...
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Dec 16,2021
ZDDQ static var generator connects a self-commutated bridge circuit through a reactor or directly connected in parallel to the grid to adjust the phase and amplitude of the output voltage on the AC side of the bridge circuit, or directly control its AC side current so that the circuit absorbs or Send out the reactive power that meets the requirements to achieve the purpose of dynamic reactive powe...
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Dec 25,2021
Merry Christmas to all our friends.
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Feb 18,2022
100kVAr SVG sample to Saudi Arabia. ZD-SVG Static Var Generator is a new generation of dynamic reactive power compensation solution. It is a semiconductor based switching technology using IGBT devices and DSP+FPGA control based on the Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) concept. Reactive power compensation has become more challenging in modern facilities due to presence of harmonics load and l...
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