Industrial Power Engineering Handbook

27

Power Reactors

Contents

27.1 Introduction

27.2a Selection of power reactors

27.2b Magnetic characteristics

27.3 Design criterion and I-φ characteristics of different types of reactor

27.3.1 Air-cored or coreless type reactors

27.3.2 Gapped iron core or saturated type reactors

27.4 Application

27.4.1 Shunt reactors or compensating reactors

27.4.2 Current limiting or series reactors

27.4.3 Dampening reactors

27.4.4 Neutral grounding reactors

27.4.5 Grounding transformer or neutral couplers

27.4.6 Arc suppression or Petersen coil (reactor)

27.4.7 Tuning or filter reactors

27.4.8 Smoothing reactors

27.1 Introduction

Power reactors are similar to transformers. However, they have only one winding per phase and can be represented as shown ...