Power factor correction maintenance
Power Factor Correction a “Maintenance Insight”
Often companies invest in power factor correction equipment based on sound financial evaluation only to discover that the expected savings are not being realised.
This could be due to a number of reasons, for example:
- Failure of the PFC capacitors
- Blown line or control fuses
- Incorrectly adjusted relays
- Undersized or poorly commissioned.
Regular inspection of power factor correction equipment to ensure its performance is essential if the savings are to be achieved. It is imperative that once a decision is taken to install power factor correction, a commitment to maintain the equipment in a serviceable condition should be undertaken.
Although EMTAC Ltd offers a comprehensive package for power factor maintenance we feel that companies would benefit by maintaining their own correction equipment.
Power factor correction seems to be an area in which planned maintenance is carried out very infrequently, if at all and generally because of a lack of understanding regarding its operation.
EMTAC offers a one day course for electricians / technicians, which we hope will dispel the ambiguity of power factor maintenance and its concept.
- The course will lead your electricians / technicians through the following:
- Definition of Power Factor
- Reactive Energy
- Electricity Billing
- Power Losses
- kVAr Calculations
- Types of Equipment
- Where to Install Equipment
- Harmonics
- Protection and Cable Size Calculations
- Control Devices
- Physical Testing
- Worked Examples
- Introduction Software
