Problems of Power Factor Correction in Power Supply Systems with Higher Harmonics Sources

Abstract

In this paper, on the basis of simulation modeling, an algorithm for studying the current resonance that occurs in the power supply system with a chaotic change of the load power and variation of reactive power compensation degree, in the presence of consumers with a nonlinear current-voltage characteristic is proposed. It is shown that overloading of capacitor banks can occur in a wide frequency range, close to the resonant frequency. The proposed algorithm determines all possible frequencies at which an increase of currents in capacitor banks can occur above the permissible values in parallel resonance. The purpose of the proposed work: to show in what operating modes of the enterprise power supply system an overload of capacitors by currents of higher harmonics can occur when the load power changes and the degree of reactive power compensation varies.