Practical Considerations Regarding Power Factor for Nonlinear Loads

The choice of compensator may be constrained by the availability of manufactures units. To account for this, the capacitor values are chosen from among standard values and for each value the transmission losses is minimized, or power factor is maximized, or transmission efficiency is maximized. The global minimum or maximum is obtained by scanning all local minims or maxims. The performance of the obtained compensator is discussed by means of numerical examples.