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No, but power factor may affect the choice of a conductor's thickness! The whole point of power-factor correction is to reduce the load current in order to enable conductors of lower cross-sectional area to supply a given load.
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What is the effect of power factor greater than unity on energy bill?
Power factor cannot exceed unity!
What is the effect of induction motor on power factor?
An induction motor has a lagging power factor. Motors of more than about 2 HP are designed to have a power factor of 0.85 or higher.
If we increase the current then what about the power factor?
The power factor depends on the phase angle between the voltage and current on a conductor. The amplitude of the current has no effect on it.
What effect do var's have on the power factor of the circuit?
VAr is reactive power, caused by either inductive or capacitive loads. The ideal power factor to have is 1, anything less than that is a loss on the network. The effect of VArs on the circuit though depends. If you have a load that is mainly inductive, then adding more inductive reactance will lower the power factor. However, if you introduce capacitive reactance this will increase the power factor, and the opposite is true if its a mainly capacitive circuit. So VArs will either increase or decrease the power factor depending on the load of the circuit. The ideal situation is to balance inductive reactance with capacitive reactance so they in effect cancel each other out and power factor is 1.
Why is copper used to make electical wiring but is not usually used to make overhead power lines?
Weight and cost factor.
What is the effect of poor power factor?
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Can i reduce electric bill by improving power-factor?
For a residential consumer, power-factor improvement has absolutely no effect on one's electricity bill. Adding power-factor improvement capacitors at the point of supply will have absolutely no effect upon the operation of the load circuits, but it may act to reduce the supply current. But reducing the supply current will not reduce one's energy consumption.
Will the improvement of power factor will increase the efficiency?
Efficiency is defined as the ratio between the output power and the input power of a machine, expressed as a per unit or percentage. Power factor improvement has absolutely no effect on the behaviour of a load. All it does is to reduce the magnitude of the load current. A reduction in load current means that less copper can be used in the supply of energy to the load. However, it doesn't effect either the output or input power of the load. So the answer is no, power factor has no effect on the efficiency of a load. You could argue, however, that if improving the power factor of a load reduces the supply current, leading to lower line losses, then there is an improvement in the efficiency of the supply system.
What effect from high power factor like 1.10?
As power factor is the cosine of the load's phase angle (the angle by which the load current lags or leads the supply voltage), it is impossible for power factor to exceed unity (1), so your question doesn't really make any sense.
Why the value of power factor should be low?
no.... the power factor of any machine should be as near as to 1 when the power factor becomes near to 1 there is no need to the alternator to supply the reactive power.. but in general all most all the loads in the power system inductive in nature the power factor is becoming lagging(<1) so to avoid this the power generating companies and the govt. are recommending the people to have the capacitors at the load ends....... since the capacitive reactance can nullify the effect of the inductive reactance this will try to improve the power factor
What is the effect of power factor on the cost of generation?
The effect of low (or 'poor') power factor is that a given load requires more load current than at high power factors. So, to accommodate these higher currents, a greater volume of copper is required in the supply cables, switchgear, transformers, etc. So much greater capital costs are required if low power loads are supplied.
Power factor correction capacitors?
Yes, they exist. Capacitors are often used to change a low power factor (such as 0.5) to a higher power factor near unity (1). In some instances, this will lower fees and costs to utilities. In homes, this is not really necessary as most devices used in homes are near unity power factor, or tend to be minor/sporadic loads (such as a washing machine).
