Gday
I'm tackling AC for the first time in 20 something years so that I can re-educate myself, and its been really hard going!! I'm stuck on a problem and I thought I understood the theory but cant make the connection to join all the dots - tbh I'm not sure that this is the right forum but you all seem to know your stuff so I thought I'd give it a punt....
I'm struggling to find an example similar on the web so I can work through it and understand what I have to do to solve the problem but heres the question:
A 250kVA transformer is at full load with a lagging power factor of 0.75. To correct the power factor to 0.9 a capacitor is placed in parallel to the secondary of the transformer. What is the required KVA of the capacitor pack Also how many KVAs is the transformer providing at the new power factor?
I'm aware of the trigonometry bits and pf=cos θ and thus can calculate an angle to then work out KW and KVAR but apart from that and calculating that I think its a 17% increase in pf. I cant join the dots in my knowledge to get past having 2 unkowns in my equations to do more calculations. I know I'm missing something but cant work out what it is... any worked example help with explanations would be awesome. Really want to be able to get to grips with this.
Cheers
Simo
I'm tackling AC for the first time in 20 something years so that I can re-educate myself, and its been really hard going!! I'm stuck on a problem and I thought I understood the theory but cant make the connection to join all the dots - tbh I'm not sure that this is the right forum but you all seem to know your stuff so I thought I'd give it a punt....
I'm struggling to find an example similar on the web so I can work through it and understand what I have to do to solve the problem but heres the question:
A 250kVA transformer is at full load with a lagging power factor of 0.75. To correct the power factor to 0.9 a capacitor is placed in parallel to the secondary of the transformer. What is the required KVA of the capacitor pack Also how many KVAs is the transformer providing at the new power factor?
I'm aware of the trigonometry bits and pf=cos θ and thus can calculate an angle to then work out KW and KVAR but apart from that and calculating that I think its a 17% increase in pf. I cant join the dots in my knowledge to get past having 2 unkowns in my equations to do more calculations. I know I'm missing something but cant work out what it is... any worked example help with explanations would be awesome. Really want to be able to get to grips with this.
Cheers
Simo