Automatic Power Factor Correction for Single Phase Domestic Loads by Means of Arduino Based TRIAC Control of Capacitor Banks

Ali, Waqas; Farooq, Haroon; Jamil, Mohsin; Rehman, Ata Ur; Taimoor, Rana; Ahmad, Monib

doi:10.1109/ece.2018.8554986

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“…They concluded that the suggested design yielded a reliable output and could be further used in any single phase practical application to maintain the power factor close to unity. Like the work done in [2], Taye in [4] also presented an arduino (ATmega328) based microcontroller, low cost automatic power factor correction system to boost an industrial power factor from 0.66 to 0.92 by switching in capacitors. A similar system was presented in [15].…”

Section: Literature Review On Automatic Power Factor Correction Techniquesmentioning

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“…Uddin et al, [14] built a microcontroller based automatic power factor correction circuit which was capable of auto-correcting the power factor of the load close to unity by measuring the current power factor and switching in appropriate static capacitors to provide the required reactive power needed for correction. Ali et al, [2] presented a simple and low-cost design of an automatic power factor correction (APFC) system for single phase domestic loads. Their proposed design uses TRIACs to switch capacitor banks in order to correct the power factor of inductive loads.…”

Section: Literature Review On Automatic Power Factor Correction Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As energy transition from traditional fossil fuels to green renewable energy sources becomes the order of the day, methods of delivering clean and affordable electrification for all becomes an urgent issue. With electricity, various electrical appliances can be powered such as television, oven, air condition, refrigerator, dryers, fans, water pumps, fluorescent lamps, uninterruptible power supplies, water dispensers and others [1], [2]. Most of these loads are inductive and hence cause low power factor as they are being supplied.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Proposed Automatic Load-Side Power Factor Correction System Algorithm and its Economic Benefits in Battery Based Renewable Energy Systems

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Tanyi

2021

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The low power factor in electrical installations results in high power losses and increased installation costs. This comes as a consequence of the high current flowing through the transmission lines due to high reactive power consumption. Most often, before the installation of renewable energy systems involving battery storage, the load demand is not evaluated in terms of the different load power factors. Because of these diversified power factors for different loads, the overall power factor of the installation will witness a decrease which puts the user at a disadvantage as more charges will be incurred. For these reasons, this paper presents the economic benefits of using an automatic power factor correction system in renewable energy installations. The Arduino microcontroller has been used in the proposal as the main automat. The power factor correction is done by installed capacitor banks connected to the loads automatically using MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) power electronic switches and relay blocks with control signals from the microcontroller. A small system was analyzed involving a water pump, fan, television, and a fluorescent lamp. A targeted corrected power factor of 0.99 was used and the results showed that 430.18 W of power was saved after power factor correction leading to a reduction of 58% line losses. Also, $1300 could be saved by the user on batteries and photovoltaic modules by incorporation the power factor correction system. The proposed correction algorithm was economically beneficial and is therefore strongly recommended to be employed by renewable energy users in particular and the grid-connected individuals in general.

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Section: Literature Review On Automatic Power Factor Correction Techniquesmentioning

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Section: Literature Review On Automatic Power Factor Correction Techniquesmentioning

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“…The relays with their driver board is seen in Figure 6. Another way to switch the capacitor bank can be depicted in [13,18]. The authors used TRIACs as a switch to correct and maintain the power factor above 0.9.…”

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Sixteen level power factor correction by using arduino microcontroller based fuzzy idea

Al-Thahab¹,

hasoony

Alkhafaji

2020

IJEECS

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Nowadays, a controller that improves the power factor (PF) is automatically designed and implemented to correct the value of the power factor once they falls below a certain one. In industry, day by day, there is an increase in the use of domestic applications and inductive loads such that they consider the essential reason whose responsible on lowering the power factor. Therefore a development method is needed to improve the power factor by adding manually variable capacitors or automatically. Fuzzy algorithm can be used as an intelligent system to estimate the value of the capacitor that should be added to compensate the effect of inductors. In this work, sixteen level of power factor are corrected automatically by new way through using Arduino Uno that programed with the aid of Fuzzy logic idea. A bank of four capacitors with different values is used and the Fuzzy helps taking the decision of which capacitors be ON or OFF. Here, the correction of power factor is from 0.64 to 0.98, and each level gives an increment of 0.02125 in PF. The experimental results are very close to the theoretical one, and the cost is very acceptable since the circuit is built from cheap equipments such as Arduino, potential transformer, relays, zero crossing circuit and current transformer. In addition, the maximum error due to the difference between the capacitor theoretical calculation and the practical is about 4.1%, while the error between the desired and the result value of PF is about 4.08% for maximum.

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“…This continuous oscillation causes an increase in the amount of current drawn by the load [2,6]. If the reactive power is not minimized, a relatively higher amount of current will be drawn by the load, which makes imperative to use a relatively high cross-section of the conductors that increase the cost and losses of the distribution system [7].…”

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Microcontroller Based Automatic Power Factor Correction for Single-Phase Lagging and Leading Loads

Rija¹,

Hussain²,

Vural³

2020

Eng. Technol. Appl. Sci. Res.

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Power Factor (PF) correction is a major power quality function in electrical distribution systems. This paper proposes a low-cost Automatic Power Factor Correction (APFC) system to increase the PF of both lagging and leading single-phase loads. The Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller was used to calculate the PF and activate the relays that connect the capacitor/inductor banks to the load in parallel. Thus, the required capacitive or inductive reactive power was produced by the APFC system by automatically connecting the capacitor/inductor banks to the load in parallel. The APFC system can also measure and display many electrical parameters of the load such as the rms voltage, the rms current, PF, and the real, reactive, and apparent power on an LCD display. Two zero-crossing detector circuits are used to find the phase angle difference between voltage and current waveforms of the load. The measurement ability of the APFC system was tested for resistive, inductive, and capacitive loads with two different sizes. The measurement results were compared with the measurements of a commercial digital power meter and a measurement error of less than 8.0% was observed. The PF correction ability of the APFC system was verified for inductive and capacitive loads with two different sizes. The experiments show that the PF increased to close to unity for both lagging and leading loads.

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Automatic Power Factor Correction for Single Phase Domestic Loads by Means of Arduino Based TRIAC Control of Capacitor Banks

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

Proposed Automatic Load-Side Power Factor Correction System Algorithm and its Economic Benefits in Battery Based Renewable Energy Systems

Proposed Automatic Load-Side Power Factor Correction System Algorithm and its Economic Benefits in Battery Based Renewable Energy Systems

Sixteen level power factor correction by using arduino microcontroller based fuzzy idea

Microcontroller Based Automatic Power Factor Correction for Single-Phase Lagging and Leading Loads

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