A method for Improving the Accuracy of Reactive Power Regulation by a Capacitor Plant

Abstract

Abstract The problem of low accuracy of reactive power regulation by the most common three-component condenser installations in the industry and its impact on the quality of electricity and the efficiency of its consumption and use in industrial power supply systems is considered. To increase the accuracy of reactive power regulation by at least 2.3 times without changing the circuit of the capacitor plant and the number of switching equipment, a new control algorithm is proposed and described in detail. The results of testing a method for regulating reactive power in the Matlab environment based on the proposed algorithm for controlling capacitor blocks with changed parameters are presented. Numerical experiments have shown the possibility of seven-stage regulation, versus three-stage control in known industrial installations. The capacitor unit is switched on by a mains switch and then by thyristor switches without a surge of currents in the capacitors and without an asymmetry of currents in the network. The installation is switched off in the reverse sequence, first by thyristor switches with natural switching, and then by a mains switch without arcing on its contacts.