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reducing drop voltage 1

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hasanhadi

Electrical
Jan 21, 2012
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how capacitor to reduce dropping voltage line
i mean can you using to reducing dropping voltage by conection capacitor and how caculate power off this capacitor
 
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I think capacitors if connected in series or parallel will reduce voltage drop since to Xl ,-jXc is added.
There may be equations for finding this if you know model of circuit
you want to find out power eg:Line Model
 
thank you dear
i need caculate dropping voltage acrosing power lines or cables or ground cable also i need improve or reducing this dropping by connection capacitor across load
for example i have motor 30kw ,400v, p.f=0.86 cable 4x35mm^2
length cable 200m to inbox sorce connect to sorce size cable 4x50mm^2 length=500m
before working voltage in box sorce 395v but when working this motor voltage at box sorce 360v and current 60A
i need connection capacitor at box sorce to rising voltage to 380v
how calculate rating capacitor
 
formulae here as;
Calculation and selection of required capacitor rating
Qc = P * {tan [acos (pf1)] - tan [ acos (pf2)]}
Qc = required capacitor output (kVAr)
pf1 = actual power factor
pf2 = target power factor
P = real power (kW)

If you improve p.f-->load current will reduce-->so voltage drop

If not solved then use high csa cables

hope this helps
 
The capacitor could improve the p.f. from 0.84 to 1.In this case you may increase the voltage only by 8 V.
In order to get 380 V at source box you need to use 3*120+70 sqr.mm instead of 3*50+25 cable .No capacitor may help you.
 
The voltage rise caused by the capacitors will be:

% volt rise = (kvar·XL)/(10·kV²)

Where: XL = the inductive reactance of the line (ohms)
kvar = three-phase capacitor size
kV = line-to-line voltage

This voltage rise is above the voltage as reduced by load voltage drop. That is, if there is 5% voltage drop with no capacitors, and 6% voltage rise caused by the capacitors, then the net voltage rise will be 1%.

 
hi sir
if using for example Q=30kvar=p
Qc = P * {tan [acos (pf1)] - tan [ acos (pf2)]}
then cos (pf1)] = cos (pf2) but become leading
vd=1.73xIxL(Rxcosq+X x sinq) if pf Lag
vd=1.73xIxL(Rxcosq-X x sinq) if pf lead
then vload=vsource-vd=vsource-vd=1.73xIxL(Rxcosq-X x sinq)
if R=0
vload=vsource+1.73xIxLxXxsinq

now rising voltage this speakig ok or no
Mr.jghrist said

% volt rise = (kvar·XL)/(10·kV²)=30x1/10x0.4^2,assume xL=1


% volt rise=18.75%
above vd%= 395-360/395=8.8%
using capacitor Qc=30 XL=1 then vd%=8.8%x18.75%=1.65%
vload=(1-1.65%) x 395=388v

is ok or no please
 
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