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that is to reduce the cost of the power plant....

Improving power factor(increasing the ration active/apparant power morethan 0.8) will increase the efficiency of uer system. Improving power factor denotes eleminating the recative power(which do no average work).... If u have more capacitive parts in uer system, the power you may need be really high when the capacitor is charging. But as it is in an a.c. system, used energy will be released and hence the average energy consumption of the cap is null. As in one instance iot absorbes energy, the electricity distributers must be able to generate such an high power which will incrrease their cost(eventhough the absorbed energy will be released)!!!

Just by reducing the the reactive power, you can reduce the enery absorption. However to do so, you may have to use caps/inductors whcich will cost you a lot.

Generally, electricity distributors say, "You must not reduce uer power factor than 0.8"... In some countries, distributors pay for the factries if there power factor is higher than a cirtain value(0.95)....

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the series LC circuit without significant R in the series connection may lead to a resonant current. The term is usually called ferroresonance.

The frequency can be dependent on any harmonic currents in the transformer load. A transformer iron core stores energy and switching/harmonic currents allow the energy to be transferred in part as current flowing to charge the load capacitors. The rapid charging of the capacitor will cause a severe over voltage,

failure does occur.

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