Automatic Power Factor Compensation for Industrial Power
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Date
2020
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NHCE
Abstract
Automatic power factor controller project is designed to improve power factor
automatically whenever power factor falls below a certain level. As you know demand
of electrical energy is increasing day by day. More and more inductive loads are being
used in industry and domestic applications. Inductive loads are main reason for low
power factor in power system. Therefore we need to develop a method to improve power
factor automatically. Automatic power controller project provides solution to this
problem. Low power factor includes unnecessary burden on power system
and transmission lines. By improving power factor of power system automatically, power
system efficiency can be improved. In this project, power factor correction prototype is
developed using pic microcontroller, relays, transformer, current transformer and zero
crossing circuit.