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What is reactive power compensation? Advantages of reactive power compensation

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What is reactive power compensation? Advantages of reactive power compensation

Reactive compensation improves grid power factor in power supply system. It also reduces the power loss of transformer and transmission line. It improves power efficiency and the environment.So the reactive power compensation device plays an important role in the power supply system. Improper selection or use of compensation device will cause many factors such as harmonic increase and voltage swell or dip.

2,Advantages of reactive power compensation

Most power equipment is inductive loading, it takes much reactive power from power system because its power factor lower than 1 when working. So we need to improve the power factor by reactive power compensation, it has following advantages:

(1) Stabilize the voltage of power grid and improve power quality;

(2) Improve power factor, reduce capacity and equipment investment;

(3) Reduce line loss, improve the transmission capacity of active power;

(4) Balance the active power and reactive power of three-phase power grid;

(5) Reduce the loss of transformer, improve the utilization of transformer.

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