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Compensate and filter power
Power Factor Correction and Filtering is essential in terms of Energy Efficiency. It brings :
- Reduction of costs
- reduction in the cost of invoiced energy
- optimisation of your installation and equipment, without overrating (your switchboards included) - Quality of energy
- decrease voltage drops
- harmonics filtering
Unfortunately, Power Factor Correction and Filtering is not always taken into account when designing an installation or writing technical specifications.
In compensation and filtering, you have to pay attention to essential points when you design an installation and its switchboards. Lifetime OR service life and safety of equipment will be directly influenced by compliance with or failure to comply with these key points.
In low voltage, as in medium voltage, you can find many compensation and filtering solutions. These solutions make it easy to improve the quality and availability of electric power and the reduction of its cost.
Two kinds of products are available to build an energy efficient switchboard. You can find components and/or power factor correction modules. Power factor correction modules are pre-cabled assemblies which have the panelbuilder in mind. This offer groups together capacitive, switching and protective functions, is 100% tested, and allows very fast integration inside panels.
Compensation and filtering components are sensitive to excessive temperature, harmonic stresses, or over voltages. To design a quality solution, it is necessary to do a good selection and optimisation of the products to integrate in the panels.
Rules for cabling and installation of components and/or modules in switchboards. Compliance with these rules is vital to ensure good ventilation in the panels, and proper functioning of your compensation and filtering solution.
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