Novel Shunt Capacitor Based Industrial Power Management Approach

The aim of proposed work is to minimize the real-time power consumption and thus reduce the power cost in industries and establishments by making utilize of shunt capacitors. Reactive Power represents the electrical power that transmits back and forth between the phase conductors and the neutral conductor of a 3 - Φ network, but does not perform any mechanical work. A greater than of a reactive power, the device consumes the more apparent power, thus decreases. Power factor means that the ratio of working power in the circuit to apparent power to the load or k W /kVAR. All industrial loads, including the induction motors, have reasonably minimum power factors. Motors account for roughly 60 % of utility loads, resulting in a low power factor for the system. These motors have a low power factor based on load level. These motors power factor range from 0.30 to 0.95, depending on their working conditions and size. The power factor (PF) is the key for deal with industrial power systems, utilities and end users. Our proposed works is control the industrial loads using Microcontroller based controller by feeding the time lagging between zero voltage pulses (ZVP) and zero current pulses (ZCP) produced by proper operation amplifier circuit working. The proposed model achieves significantly 20 % to 22 % improvement in energy minimization against the existing model subject to different types of loads.