What is APFC Panels?

Why It is required? What is purpose of APFC Panels?

Questions arises in every person's mind.

APFC Automatic Power Factor Correction Panels

Why It is required?

We are living in fast growing sophisticated era. Therefore, every one is more focusing on their productivity & their products to make their remarkable moves. But fail to think on power management. Managing your power connection has never been so easy. Therefore, We are always compromise with our power solutions to save our time.

In industry most of the load is inductive in nature which results in lagging power factor that is why there is loss and wastage of energy which results in high power bills and heavy penalties from electricity boards.

If the load is uneven it is very difficult to maintain unity power factor. To overcome this difficulty APFC panel is used which maintains unity P.F.

But wait what is Power Factor and why should we maintain P.F?

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Now Question is How does it works?

APFC Panel has microcontroller based programmable controller which switches the capacitor banks of suitable capacity automatically in multiple stages by directly reading the reactive load (RKVA) which works in the principle of VAR sensing tends to maintain the PF to 0.99 Lag. The capacitor banks may be selected in number of stages as 4/6/8 according to the load pattern.

APFC Panels come real handy in the achievement of this purpose Use of these control panels becomes indispensable in those industries where electrical installations are meant to supply to large electrical load.

A dip in Power Factor can attract operational losses and a penalty from electricity board, responsible for electricity supply.

What are the types of Automatic Power Factor correction equipment?

Type of Capacitor as per Construction

Selection of Capacitor as per Non Liner Load

Calculation of Non - linear load:

Example:

Installed transformer rating = 1000 kVA

Non - linear loads = 100 kVA %

non - linear loads = (non - linear loads / transformer rating) x 100

= (100 / 1000) x 100

= 10%

Multipliers to Determine Capacitor Kilovars Required for Power Factor Correction