title: Power System Capacitors (Power Engineering (Willis))
author:  Ramasamy Natarajan 
description: "One of this book's several virtues is that higher mathematics is resorted to only as necessary, with numerous worked examples amply demonstrating the calculations involved. Another is the extensive bibliographyall too often, users suppose that capacitors, as simple static devices, may safely be neglected. Dr. Natarajan strongly refutes that, offering a useful checklist of symptoms, diagnoses, and remediesthis book is a valuable reference as the only current work of its kind." - Electrical Apparatus, July 2005
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  © ABB High Voltage Products  
  June 19, 2013 | Slide 1 
  Reactive Power Compensation 
   
   
  José Matias – High Voltage Components – ABB AB 
  Santiago - Chile, 05-June-2013 
  
   
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  June 19, 2013 | Slide 2 
  Reactive Power Compensation 
  Main Topics 
   
  Topics 
   Introduction 
   The need for capacitors 
   Reactive power 
   Effects of reactive power 
   Reactive power compensation 
   Implementing compensation in network 
   Benefits of reactive power compensation 
   Compensation solutions 
   Capacitors: Main components & Building blocks 
   ABB Capacitors: History & background 
   ABB Capacitors: Solutions & Portfolio 
  
   
  © ABB High Voltage Products  
  June 19, 2013 | Slide 3 
  Reactive Power Compensation 
  Introduction 
   
  
  Power factor 
  Displacement factor (cos φ) 
   
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  June 19, 2013 | Slide 4 
  Benefits 
   Improves system power factor 
   Reduces network losses 
   Avoid penalty charges from utilities for 
  excessive consumption of reactive power 
   Red