LV SIDE DISTRIBUTED POWER FACTOR CORRECTION SYSTEM

Santosh K. Verma, Akash Sunil Gaikwad

Abstract: Power factor is a very important parameter of power system. In an electric power system, a load with a low power factor draws more current than a load with a high power factor for the same amount of useful power transferred. The higher currents increase the energy lost in the distribution system, and require larger wires and other equipment leading to increase in the cost of the system [1]. So it is very necessary to have a good power factor. Here we have proposed a Low Voltage (LV) side distributed model to correct the power factor of the power system. It can reduce the losses in the transmission, system size, cost of the system and complexity in the instalment. We have also designed a low cost, reliable, efficient system using ATmega16 (8-bit CPU) from Atmel Corporation which can be used in the proposed system for automatic correction of the power factor.

Keywords: Power Factor, Automatic Power factor Correction System, AVR, ATmega16, Capacitor Bank, Power System etc…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0309034