We have a grass root project, four new generators will be installed to generate power, the power will be transferred to power transmission line. A question was asked, will the synchrounous generators be able to improve the system power factor or capacitor bank need to be installed to maintain required 0.95 system p.f.?
Can Synchronous Generator improve system power factor?
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RoberteFuhr
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The Facility Loads Dictate the Power Factor
The Facility Loads Dictate the Power Factor
The load dictates what the power factor will be. If you are going to run the generators in parallel with the utility, you can then turn up the excitation voltage which will produce more kVAR. Less kVAR from the utility means it will look like (when viewed from the utility) that you have improved the PF.
The Facility Loads Dictate the Power Factor
The load dictates what the power factor will be. If you are going to run the generators in parallel with the utility, you can then turn up the excitation voltage which will produce more kVAR. Less kVAR from the utility means it will look like (when viewed from the utility) that you have improved the PF.
wirenut1980
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In addition to what Roberte said, you will have to size the generator to supply the watts and the vars if you want to use it to correct power factor.
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