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Name: Borja, Benedict C. Course & Year Level: BSEE

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Power System Analysis and Design – Laboratory

Complex Power

I. Objective:

To observe the behaviour of the Real Power, Reactive Power and Apparent Power in the
system.

II. Tasks

1. Solve the problem below;

A single-phase source delivers 100 kW to a load operating at a power factor
of 0.8 lagging. Calculate the reactive power to be delivered by a capacitor connected in
parallel with the load in order to raise the source power factor to 0.95 lagging. Also draw the
power triangle for the source and load. Assume that the source voltage is constant, and
neglect the line impedance between the source and load.
 2. Write your answer in the table provided at data and observation part of this
laboratory report.

3. To see an animated view of this problem, open PowerWorld Simulator case

Example 2.3. If you cannot open this simulator case, create a new case as the figure shown
below;

4. From the Ribbon select the green and black ‘‘Play’’ button to begin the simulation.
The speed and size of the green arrows are proportional to the real power supplied to the
load bus, and the blue arrows are proportional to the reactive power.

5. Here reactive compensation can be supplied in discrete 20-kVar steps by clicking

on the arrows in the capacitor’s kvar field, and the load can be varied by clicking on the
arrows in the load field.

6. Change the value as indicated in the table below the reactive compensation and
observe its effect on kW, kVAr and kVA.

III. Data and Observation

A. Result of solving the problem given above;

Source Load
Power factor angle 18.19 degrees Power factor angle 36.87 degrees
Reactive power 32.87 kVAR Reactive power 75 kVAR
delivered delivered
Apparent power 105.3 kVA Apparent power 125 kVA

B. Animated View

KW at KVAR Reactive KW at KVAR at Size of Arrow Speed of Arrow

supply at compensatio load load side KW KVAR KW KVAR
side supply n (KVAR) side
side
100 kW 55 20 100 75 kVAR 100 55 100 55
kVAR
100 kW 75 0 100 75 kVAR 100 75 100 75
kVAR
100 kW 15 60 100 75 kVAR 100 15 100 15
 kVAR
50 kW 55 20 50 75 kVAR 50 55 50 55
kVAR
150 kW 55 20 150 75 kVAR 150 55 150 55
kVaR

IV. Conclusion

Notice that increasing the reactive compensation decreases both the reactive power flow on
the supply line and the kVA power supplied by the generator; the real power flow is
unchanged.