Effect of nonlinearity and unbalance on power factor

Author

Manjure, Durgesh P. ; Makram, Elham B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clemson Univ., SC, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

956

Abstract

Power factor has always been a very important parameter in the economics of power systems engineering. It is a very useful figure of merit that represents the utilization of the supply system. The notions established for the definition of power factor considering sinusoidal voltage and current waveforms do not hold true in the presence of distortion and/or unbalance. This paper presents results of the simulations carried out to study the effect of nonlinearity and unbalance on the power factor. In addition, a new nonlinear model (time domain) for the arc furnace has been used in the simulations for power factor calculations. The results obtained therefrom justify the need for accurate modeling of nonlinear loads

Keywords

arc furnaces; load (electric); power factor; time-domain analysis; arc furnace; figure of merit; nonlinear loads; nonlinear model; nonlinearity; power factor; power systems engineering; sinusoidal current waveforms; sinusoidal voltage waveforms; supply system utilisation; time domain model; unbalance; Furnaces; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Power generation economics; Power system economics; Power system modeling; Power system simulation; Reactive power; Systems engineering and theory; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 2000. IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6420-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESS.2000.867501

Filename

867501