Experiment no:4 POWER FACTOR INPROVEMENT (PFI) BY PARALEL CAPACTOR

Submitted by Madhu Gupta 2010-3-50-001

Experiment name: Power factor improvement by parallel capacitor. Objective: The aim of this experiment is to provide more understanding of practical implementation of parallel capacitor bank in improving power factor of an inductive load. Circuit Diagram:

Equipment: a. Signal generator b. Oscilloscope c. Resistors d. Inductor box e. Capacitor box f. Wires and chords Procedure: a. Set the signal generator sine wav signal to Vm=5V and f=1KHz. To supply this kind of voltage we use oscilloscope. b. Then we have connected the circuit as like as fig.1 c. Connect the channel-1 and channel-2 of the oscilloscope as shown in fig 1. Do not misplace the RED and BLACK chords of the oscilloscope. They must be connected as shown in the circuit. Also the R chord of channel 01 should be connected to the R chord of signal generator. d. Now sequentially change the capacitance value and measure the phasede3s difference of the following different values of c Data table and calculation:

C( 0.5

(mS) .192

(deg) 69.12

Pf = cos( 0.35

0.8 0.9 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 6 7 8 9 10

.188 .184 .180 .176 .172 .168 .160 .156 .148 .144 .136 .132 .128 .120 .112 .104

67.68 65.88 66.24 63.36 61.92 60.48 57.6 56.16 53.28 51.84 48.96 47.52 46.08 43.2 40.32 37.44

0.38 .409 .403 .45 .47 .50 .54 .56 .62 .63 .66 .69 .77 .72 .76 .8