Hello,
I have a very basic question on how to determine the capacitance for a 3-Ph capacitor bank.
If I am not mistaken this is done using the following equation:
Where:
Mvar is the power is in Mvar
Vrms is the rms voltage Line to Line Voltage in kV
Freq is the frequency in Hz
Now what I am unclear on is if this capacitance is the total 3-Ph capacitance or the capacitance per phase.
The reason why I am confused about this is that in a paper I was reading which deals with the estimation stored energy of 3-Ph capacitor banks a different approach is taken.
In the paper they use the following equations:
The paper mentions the capacitance calculated is per phase, not the total. However, something seems off since they are calculating this using the total 3Ph MVAR.
Maybe to help understand how this is done the calculation can be done using the sample capacitor bank nameplates below.
I feel Using the actual nameplate data of these banks would help clarify the calculation question above.
Additionally, it would shed some light on how the calculation is affected when multiple capacitors make up a single Cap bank.
Single Cap Case:
Multi Cap Case:
Any guidance on this mix up would be much appreciated.
I have a very basic question on how to determine the capacitance for a 3-Ph capacitor bank.
If I am not mistaken this is done using the following equation:
Where:
Mvar is the power is in Mvar
Vrms is the rms voltage Line to Line Voltage in kV
Freq is the frequency in Hz
Now what I am unclear on is if this capacitance is the total 3-Ph capacitance or the capacitance per phase.
The reason why I am confused about this is that in a paper I was reading which deals with the estimation stored energy of 3-Ph capacitor banks a different approach is taken.
In the paper they use the following equations:
The paper mentions the capacitance calculated is per phase, not the total. However, something seems off since they are calculating this using the total 3Ph MVAR.
Maybe to help understand how this is done the calculation can be done using the sample capacitor bank nameplates below.
I feel Using the actual nameplate data of these banks would help clarify the calculation question above.
Additionally, it would shed some light on how the calculation is affected when multiple capacitors make up a single Cap bank.
Single Cap Case:
Multi Cap Case:
Any guidance on this mix up would be much appreciated.