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Power Sources and Supplies: World Class Designs
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Power Sources and Supplies: World Class Designs

by Marty Brown
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
16h 50m
English
Newnes
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Power Factor Correction
CHAPTER 9
Power factor correction is becoming a very important area in the power world. Adding
more generating capacity to the world ’ s electrical pool is very costly and would consume
additional resources. One method of creating about 30 percent excess generating capacity
is to use the AC power more effi ciently through the broad use of power factor correction.
Motors, electronic power supplies, and fl uorescent lighting consume about 40 percent
of the power in the world and each of these would benefi t from power factor correction.
From the mid-1990s to the present, many of the countries of ...
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