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Watt Loss/kVAR of Reactive Power Compensating Device

10/24/2010 1:04 AM

"If power factor improvement is for reducing energy loss upstream, then what should be the efficiency level of the compensating equipment?

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Re: watt loss/kVAR of reactive power compensating device

10/24/2010 7:32 AM

Please note that PF improvement only compensates for the lagging REACTIVE power and it does very minimal to improve on active power consumption.

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Re: Watt Loss/kVAR of Reactive Power Compensating Device

10/24/2010 1:57 PM

The question starts with a quotation mark. This makes it look as though the OP is passing along a question posed by someone else. If so, the OP should request this someone else not to ask nonsense questions.

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Re: Watt Loss/kVAR of Reactive Power Compensating Device

10/24/2010 8:06 PM

The primary reason for installing capacitors to an electrical system is to reduce demand. When a customer is being billed a penalty for kva demand, you can save money by reducing this KVA demand. Installing capacitors and improving power factor will do this. As a side benefit, depending on where the capacitors are installed, you will save I²R losses and reduce kwh's. However, the primary reason for improvng PF is to reduce demand.

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