Capacitor banks are applied at low, medium and high voltage to correct power factor and improve voltage stability. When short circuit occurs on or near the bus then capacitors can ‘discharge’ into the fault. These capacitor bank discharge currents are not at system frequency (50/60Hz) but are at hundreds of Hz to few kHz.
The energy from the capacitor banks is discharged by driving the transformers into saturation after disconnection from the grid. To investigate this, simulations were conducted in PSCAD to identify the relationship between the size of the transformer, the size of discharge resistor and the time taken for the capacitor bank to discharge.
Capacitor bank can hold dangerous voltage after disconnecting from power system unless discharging devices are connected to the capacitor terminals.
Frequency of capacitor bank discharge current depends on system inductance and capacitance of bank. Peak discharge current into fault is given by: In low voltage application, capacitors are typically ungrounded and maximum capacitor discharge current occurs for three phase external fault.
It has been shown that if the PSCAD simulations of the full-scale circuit are correct, discharge times under 0.2 s can be achieved depending on the transformer size and discharge resistor size chosen. From this paper, it was shown that this method of discharging capacitor banks is likely to achieve the results obtained from the initial simulations.
It is preferred to connect discharged capacitor banks to the network because the voltage difference will be equal to the voltage of the system or less. In contrast, if a charged capacitor bank is connected at the wrong time instant, there can be a voltage differential of up to two times the nominal system voltage [ 1 ].
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capacitor banks General The following handling and installation instructions are intended to help customers install the medium voltage metal-enclosed capacitor banks properly and efficiently . …