Improving Power Factor in an Estate for a Minimized Power Cost Using Intelligent Synchronous Capacitor Band

• Author(s): Christopher Ogwugwuam Ezeagwu ; Anionovo Ugochukwu Edebeani ; Fumnanya Ogwugwuam Okezi
• Paper ID: 1704909
• Page: 484-491
• Published Date: 28-07-2023
• Published In: Iconic Research And Engineering Journals
• Publisher: IRE Journals
• e-ISSN: 2456-8880
• Volume/Issue: Volume 7 Issue 1 July-2023

Abstract

The consistent monetary wastage observed in power consumption in some of our estates in the country is vehemently caused by its power factor not attaining the thresh hood of 0.98 through 1 that is anchored by electrical loads that cause high current drawn from power supply. This is wittingly subdued by introducing improving power factor in an estate for a minimized power cost using intelligent synchronous capacitor band. This is done in the following procedure, characterizing estate power consumption, designing a synchronous rule base that will improve power factor, minimize cost of power consumed in an estate, training ANN in a designed synchronous rule base that will improve power factor, minimize cost of power consumed. in an estate, determining the capacitor size suitable to stabilize power factor, designing a synchronous SIMULINK model, developing an algorithm that will implement the entire process, designing a SIMULINK model for improving power factor in an estate for a minimized power cost using intelligent synchronous capacitor band and validating and justifying the percentage improvement in the power factor and minimizing power cost in the estate with and without using intelligent synchronous capacitor band. The results obtained are, The results obtained are the conventional low power factor of the electrical load that cause high current is drawn from power supply in building 1 of the estate is 0.61712 PF which cause the cost of power consumed in building 1 of the estate to be expensive. On the other hand, when an intelligent synchronous capacitor band is incorporated in the system the power factor becomes 0.9195 PF thereby reducing the cost of power consumed in building 1 of the estate, the conventional cost of power consumed in building 1 of the estate is ? 4500, while when an intelligent synchronous capacitor band is imbibed in the system, its cost of power consumption drastically reduced to ?.3687 and the conventional power factor of building 4 in the estate is 0.5602 PF. On the other hand, when an intelligent synchronous capacitor band is incorporated in the system it met the thresh hood of 0.8347 PF. Finally, the conventional cost of power consumed by building 4 in the estate is ?5100 while when an intelligent synchronous capacitor band is incorporated in the system, the cost of power consumed by building 4 in the estate reduced to ?4178. The percentage improvement in the in the reduction of cost of power consumed in building 4 in the estate is 18.07%.

Keywords

Improving, Power Factor, Estate, Minimized, Power, Cost, Intelligent, Synchronous, Capacitor, Band

Citations

IRE Journals:
Christopher Ogwugwuam Ezeagwu , Anionovo Ugochukwu Edebeani , Fumnanya Ogwugwuam Okezi "Improving Power Factor in an Estate for a Minimized Power Cost Using Intelligent Synchronous Capacitor Band" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 7 Issue 1 2023 Page 484-491

IEEE:
Christopher Ogwugwuam Ezeagwu , Anionovo Ugochukwu Edebeani , Fumnanya Ogwugwuam Okezi "Improving Power Factor in an Estate for a Minimized Power Cost Using Intelligent Synchronous Capacitor Band" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 7(1)