Capacitor Failure and Fuse Operation Investigation and Analysis: A Case Study

摘要

Adding power factor correction capacitors provides well-known benefits to industrial plants. These benefits include power factor correction, voltage support, and release of system capacity. Engineering judgment must be used, however, when applying capacitors in power systems which contain excessive harmonics and transients. Capacitors might not survive for long in such environments if they are not properly applied. This has given them an undeserved bad reputation in some circles.