Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 43 views

    Jss Academy of Technical Education: Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

    Uploaded by

    Biplav Singh
    This document describes a student project to design an automatic power factor controller. It introduces the motivation to improve power efficiency and quality by correcting the power factor. The project aims to monitor energy consumption and automatically improve the power factor using a capacitor bank when it drops below a threshold. It will calculate reactive power from inductive loads and compensate using capacitance to restore the power factor to near unity. This is expected to increase load capacity and reduce losses in the power system. The proposed implementation involves using a microcontroller to measure the power factor from voltage and current signals and control relays connecting capacitors when needed.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Jss Academy of Technical Education: Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

    Uploaded by

    Biplav Singh
    43 views11 pages
    This document describes a student project to design an automatic power factor controller. It introduces the motivation to improve power efficiency and quality by correcting the power factor. The project aims to monitor energy consumption and automatically improve the power factor using a capacitor bank when it drops below a threshold. It will calculate reactive power from inductive loads and compensate using capacitance to restore the power factor to near unity. This is expected to increase load capacity and reduce losses in the power system. The proposed implementation involves using a microcontroller to measure the power factor from voltage and current signals and control relays connecting capacitors when needed.

    Original Title

    Asdnkaclass Notes

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document describes a student project to design an automatic power factor controller. It introduces the motivation to improve power efficiency and quality by correcting the power factor. The project aims to monitor energy consumption and automatically improve the power factor using a capacitor bank when it drops below a threshold. It will calculate reactive power from inductive loads and compensate using capacitance to restore the power factor to near unity. This is expected to increase load capacity and reduce losses in the power system. The proposed implementation involves using a microcontroller to measure the power factor from voltage and current signals and control relays connecting capacitors when needed.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    43 views11 pages

    Jss Academy of Technical Education: Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

    Uploaded by

    Biplav Singh
    This document describes a student project to design an automatic power factor controller. It introduces the motivation to improve power efficiency and quality by correcting the power factor. The project aims to monitor energy consumption and automatically improve the power factor using a capacitor bank when it drops below a threshold. It will calculate reactive power from inductive loads and compensate using capacitance to restore the power factor to near unity. This is expected to increase load capacity and reduce losses in the power system. The proposed implementation involves using a microcontroller to measure the power factor from voltage and current signals and control relays connecting capacitors when needed.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    of 11

    JSS MAHAVIDYAPEETHA

    JSS ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION


    DEPARTMENT OF
    ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

    PROJECT ON
    Automatic Power Factor Controller
    PRESENTED BY
    BIPLAV SINGH (1809121015)
    RAHUL DEV PARKER (1809121030)
    PARAS GOSWAMI (1809121027)
    ANURAG SINGH (1809121007)
    CONTENTS

    ● INTRODUCTION
    ● MOTIVATION
    ● PROBLEM STATEMENT
    ● OBJECTIVES
    ● PROPOSED METHOD OF IMPLEMENTATION
    ● CONCLUSION
    ● REFERENCES
    INTRODUCTION
    1. Power factor losses represent a significant factor of power losses in
    both industrial and domestic units.
    2. Power factor measures a system's power efficiency and is an
    important aspect in improving the quality of supply.
    3. This project presents the simple and low-cost design of an automatic
    power factor correction (APFC) system for single phase domestic
    loads.
    4. The advantages of correcting power factor include reduced power
    system losses, increased load carrying capabilities, improved voltages
    and much more.
    MOTIVATION
    1. Efficient generation of power at present is crucial as wastage of power
    is a global concern. Power factor measures a system's power
    efficiency and is an important aspect in improving the quality of
    supply.
    2. A power factor correction unit would allow the system to restore its
    power factor close to unity for economical operation.
    3. The aim of this project is to build an Automatic Power Factor
    Correction (APFC) Unit, which is able to monitor the energy
    consumption of a system and automatically improve its power factor.
    PROBLEM STATEMENT

    ● At low power factor, the current is high which gives rise to high
    copper losses in the system and therefore the efficiency of the
    system is reduced.
    ● Higher current produced a large voltage drop in the apparatus.
    This results in the poor voltage regulation.
    OBJECTIVE

    1. The APFC device calculates the reactive power consumed by a


    system's inductive load and compensates the lagging power factor
    using capacitance from a capacitor bank to restore its power factor
    close to unity for economical operation.
    2. The increased power factor will result in increased Load
    Carrying Capabilities In Existing Circuits.
    3. Improving the power factor will result in reduced power system
    losses.
    PROPOSED METHOD OF IMPLEMENTATION

    ● Automatic Power factor correction device reads the power


    factor from line voltage and line current by determining the
    delay in the arrival of the current signal with respect to voltage
    signal from the function generator with high accuracy by using
    an internal timer.
    ● The capacitor bank and relays are interfaced to the micro
    controller using a relay driver, which can be connected to the
    main power system when the power factor drops.
    CONCLUSION

    Automatic power factor controller project is designed to improve


    power factor automatically whenever power factor falls below a
    certain level. As we know demand of electrical energy is
    increasing day by day. More and more inductive loads are being
    used in industry and domestic applications which are main reason
    for low power factor in power system. Therefore we devised a
    method to improve power factor automatically at a low cost.
    REFERENCES

    ● N. H. Ishak et al., "A Design of an Automatic Single Phase Power Factor


    Controller by Using Arduino Uno Rev-3", Applied Mechanics and Materials
    ● "Reduce Power Bills with Power Factor Correction Device", July 2014
    ● V. C. E. M. Raj and S. Lese, "A Novel Approach for Power Factor
    Correction Using Microcontroller in Domestic Loads", Middle-East Journal
    of Scientific Research
    ● M. S. Rana, M. N. Miah and H. Rahman, "Automatic Power Factor
    Improvement by using Microcontroller", Global Journal of Researches in
    Engineering-Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    ● S. Umesh, L. Venkatesha and A. Usha, "Active power factor correction
    technique for single phase full bridge rectifier", Proc. Int. Conf. Advances in
    Energy Conversion Technologies
    Thank You

    You might also like