Experimental Research on Power Quality Improvement using Capacitor Bank for 500 kVA Three Phase Transformer

This research is to improve the power quality for 500kVA three phase transformer using capacitor bank at Technological University Mandalay . The main purpose of installing a capacitor bank is to compensate the reactive power consumption and reduce the line losses for power quality improvement. The required value of capacitor bank rating for transformer is calculated in this paper. And then the results for loss reduction and reactive power compensation are also compared without and with capacitor bank. In this research, 150 kVAR of capacitor bank is installed to improve the power factor up to 0.99, to decrease reactive power from 138.47 to 0.75kVAR, apparent power from 169.47kVA to 101.93kVA, and percent loss reduction up to 69.14. So, the simple model of reactive power compensation with 150kVAR capacitor bank is helpful for 500 kVA transformer at Technological University Mandalay to reduce reactive power consumption. Phyu Phyu Win | Moe Phyu Thel "Experimental Research on Power Quality Improvement using Capacitor Bank for 500 kVA Three-Phase Transformer" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd26637.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electrical-engineering/26637/experimental-research-on-power-quality-improvement-using-capacitor-bank-for-500-kva-three-phase-transformer/phyu-phyu-win