Correção do fator de potência: estudo de viabilidade da Implantação de um banco capacitor na Universidade do Estado do Amazonas – Escola Superior De Tecnologia

Abstract

Becoming a very important aspect on electrical installations nowadays, the power factor is filled with laws and fees to the customers who do not follow such rules. Not only aiming to preserve the generator unity, but also aiming to have a “cleaner” energy and to avoid facts like curt circuits and over tensions, it was created rules that limit some parameters related to the power factor, such as the excess of reactive energy used by the charge. Moreover, given to the fact that a great part of the actual electrical installations of buildings were built a very significant amount of time ago, the increase of reactive loads on its terminals, may result in the fees stablished before in case that there is not a proper correction of such problem. Therefore, picking as a place of study the Superior School of Technology in Amazonas, where the problem here mentioned occurred, this research will be elaborated aiming to dimension and study the viability of the implantation of a solution to such issue, using a bank of capacitors, in the Institution aiming to solve the problem.