JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Prerequisite

Power Systems

Course Objectives:

• To identify the necessity of reactive power compensation
• To describe load compensation
• To select various types of reactive power compensation in transmission systems
• To illustrate reactive power coordination system
• To characterize distribution side and utility side reactive power management.

Course Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, the student will be able to

• Distinguish the importance of load compensation in symmetrical as well as un symmetrical loads
• Observe various compensation methods in transmission lines
• Construct model for reactive power coordination
• Distinguish demand side reactive power management & user side reactive power management

UNIT - I: LOAD COMPENSATION

Objectives and specifications – reactive power characteristics – inductive and capacitive approximate biasing – Load compensator as a voltage regulator – phase balancing and power factor correction of unsymmetrical loads- examples.

UNIT - II: STEADY–STATE AND TRANSIENT REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION IN