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ABSTRACT
Most of the commercial and industrial installation in the
country has large electrical loads which are severally
inductive in nature causing lagging power factor which
gives heavy penalties to consumer by electricity board.
This situation is taken care by PFC. Power factor
correction is the capacity of absorbing the reactive
power produced by a load. In case of fixed loads, this
can be done manually by switching of capacitors,
however in case of rapidly varying and scattered loads it
becomes difficult to maintain a high power factor by
manually switching on/off the capacitors in proportion to
variation of load within an installation. This drawback is
overcome by using an APFC panel. In this paper
measuring of power factor from load is done by using
PIC microcontroller and trigger required capacitors in
order to compensate reactive power and bring power
factor near to unity.
In the designed circuit, the power factor is
measured using PIC16F877. This paper focuses to
design the simple circuit and low-cost. The current and
voltage signals of the load are measured at the same
phase. Those signals are inserted into PIC16F877 by
means of analog circuit. The power factor is calculated
by the algorithm written on the PIC16F877. The
measurement value of the power factor is displayed on
the LCD screen.
Keywords: Power factor; Reactive power; PIC
microcontroller; Capacitor bank; Pulse Width
Modulated wave.
1. INTRODUCTION
Power factor is the ratio of KW and KVA. KW is the
actual load power and KVA is the apparent load power.
It is a measure of how effectively the current is being
converted into useful work output . Electrical energy is
always in great demand for industrial usage. It is on the
increase for the development of industrial applications.
PROJECT WORK
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SENSORS
2.3
PIC MICROCONTROLLER UNIT
Microchip Technologies 16 bit microcontroller
PIC16F877A has several useful stand-alone features like
built in Flash Program Memory, EEPROM (Electrically
Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), Data
Memory, A/D (Analog-to-Digital) converter, 8 and 16
bit Timers, watchdog timer, Capture/ Compare/ PWM
modules, serial and parallel communication interface etc.
2.4
CAPACITOR BANK
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4.
(a)
(b)
Fig. 6: Program flow charts, (a) main program (b) interrupt service
routine.
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REFERENCES
[1] Christofer Larsson Olof Johansson, Active
Power
Factor
Correction
for
Airborne
Applications ,2012.
[2] Irwan Y,Irwanto M, Safwati I, Improvement of
induction machine performance using power
factor correction,2011.
[3] Rahim N.A., Mekhilef S.,A new three-,
Fig. 8 Hardware
phase
inverter
power-factor
correction
(PFC) scheme using field programmable
gate array,2002.
[4] Nader Barsoum, Programming of PIC MicroController for Power Factor Correction,2007.
[5] Abhinav Sharma, Vishal Nayyar, S, PIC
Fig.6 Before PF correction
6. CONCLUSION
The system has the ability to sense power factor
effectively and by using proper algorithm sufficient
capacitors are switched on in order to compensate the
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