Reactive Power

I didnt understand what you wrote here. If you can express it simply, please do it. Otherwise do not waste your and my time.

I am impressed that even after the arrogance expressed by the "guest" OP, you still continued to offer information on the subject in question. Well done...

i doff my hat to you 67model

It is people like you who make CR4 worthwhile....you seem to be a worthy follower of Gandhi's great precepts. Keep it up

Thanx for your reply. I may be wrong with selection of word like dissipate,,but then wat i exactly like to ask is capacitor supplies reactive power while inductor absorbs. then we aslo say recative power bounces back load and source.

If reactive power shuttles between load and source,,how come capacitor and inductor action come into picture.

I await some good response from u that can remove my doubt..

Thanx

Capacitor and inductors are the cause of reactive power, they cannot be other than "in the picture"! In any electrical circuit there are the following fundamental actions:-

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"Burning-up" or "dissipation" of energy (which commonly finishes up as heat, but could, for example, be the power radiated from a radio antenna or mechanical shaft power output) - represented by resistance.
2.

Storage of energy by electric fields - represented by capacitors.
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Storage of energy by magnetic fields - represented by inductors.

Reactive "power" is all to do with stored energy. Take an inductor connected to a sinusoidal voltage source (under steady-state conditions) :-

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Over a quarter cycle of current increase from zero, the source provides energy that is stored in the inductor's magnetic field. At the end of the quarter cycle, the current is maximum and the magnetic field strength/stored energy is maximum.
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During the next quarter cycle, the current falls to zero, at which the stored energy is zero.
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Over the next half cycle, 1/ and 2/ repeat, but the current has the the opposite polarity.
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Go back to 1/ and the whole cycle repeats.

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One can take a generator driven by an engine or motor and apply an inductive load to it, which takes a large current (which would have a very noticeable effect on the fuel flow/ drive torque if it were a resistive load like lamps for a football stadium).
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But for this inductive load, the increase in fuel/torque is much less than that.
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In fact, the most careful analysis (e.g. using a torquemeter and tricks like putting the inductor in a heat insulated tank of oil and measuring temperature rise over a time interval) would only show that the extra fuel/torque is due to the inductor losses and not in proportion to the amps x volts at the inductor terminals.
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The conclusion must be that energy taken from the source over a quarter cycle (starting at zero current) is stored and returned to it over the following quarter cycle.

One can follow similar arguments, for a capacitor connected to a sinusoidal voltage source.