Design of shunt capacitor circuits for power factor compensation in electrical systems supplying nonlinear loads: a probabilistic approach

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 675-681

  Cavallini, Andrea ^a   Mazzanti, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Harmonics; Power factor correction; Reactive power

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; REACTIVE POWER;

SHUNT CAPACITOR CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION;

EID: 0032118678     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.703957     Document Type: Article

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