Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2008
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 1

Power Factor Improvement and Energy Conservation Through Use of Intelligent Power Factor Controller

  • Author:
  • Mukund Bapat
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 69 to 69

(Conzerv Systems Pvt. Ltd.)

Abstract

Increasingly, Indian Industry is paying one of the highest power tariffs in the world. This will get worse due to our dependence on imported fuel, escalation in fuel prices and depreciation of rupee. Further the gap between supply and demand is expanding leading to poor quality and lower quantity of power resulting in loss of production and profits. The demand for energy is projected to grow twice a fast in Asia over the next 20 years. India is projected to claim a significant portion of this Asian demand. With increasing global competition countries with higher electricity costs can benefit significantly from improvements in Energy Efficiency. Further improvements in energy efficiency are already proven to have the fastest payback, compared to improving availability through generation.

Keywords

Power factor, Capacitance, Harmonics