Power factor correction and harmonic mitigation in industry

Author

Ortega, J. M Maza ; Payán, M. Burgos ; Mitchell, C. Izquierdo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Seville Univ., Spain

Volume

5

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

3127

Abstract

Power factor correction in industrial facilities has become a problem nowadays because of the widespread use of power electronic equipment. Frequently, single tuned filters must replace capacitors used to increase the power factor in order to avoid resonances. This paper presents an analytical technique used to improve power factor and reduce harmonics. An orthogonal decomposition of currents in three-phase system is applied in order to compute the optimum power factor compensator for each individual problem

Keywords

compensation; control system analysis; harmonic distortion; industrial power systems; optimal control; power factor correction; power harmonic filters; power system control; power system harmonics; reactive power control; harmonic current orthogonal decomposition; harmonic mitigation; industrial facilities; optimum power factor compensator; power electronic equipment; power factor correction; single tuned filters; three-phase industrial power system; Capacitors; Impedance; Passive filters; Power electronics; Power factor correction; Power harmonic filters; Power system harmonics; Reactive power; Resonance; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 2000. Conference Record of the 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6401-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.2000.882612

Filename

882612