Use of Shunt Reactor in Compensation
Shunt Reactors act as an absorber of reactive power to increase the energy efficiency of the power system. It is generally used in places with long power transmission and distribution lines.
What is a Shunt Reactor?
MV cables, UPSs, lighting elements with electronic ballast are capacitive. This capacitive characteristic causes the system to be overcompensated. This results in penalties on electricity bills due to high capacitive demand. In enterprises with such loads, Inductive Load Reactors are used to absorb and balance the reactive power.
In order to increase the energy efficiency of power systems In the past, only compensation system was added to the power line in order to keep businesses in balance with Inductive energy and capacitive energy strong> it was enough to compensate by connecting it. However, the number of devices with capacitive features in enterprises is constantly increasing. Therefore, shunt reactors with capacitors must be used for correct compensation. The size of the Shunt reactor depends on the size and load profile of the enterprises.
Use and Connection of Shunt Reactors in Compensation Panels
Shunt Reactors help balance your system by generating inductive load to eliminate or balance capacitive energy in enterprises with high capacitive load.
Shunt Reactor Connection Diagrams
Shunt Reactors, one of the most important elements of the compensation system, are produced as single-phase and 3-phase and are connected to the power line in parallel with the inductive load driver to eliminate the capacitive effect. Inductive load driver (entes 5kvar inductive load driver) activates the reactor with the help of the contactor (K1) that we have seen in the figure.
Shunt Reactor Application Areas
- Telecommunication stations in urban areas such as radio, GSM and TV transmitters.
- Places with large areas such as industrial zones, large campuses, solar farms.
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