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Power Supply Cookbook, 2nd Edition
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Power Supply Cookbook, 2nd Edition

by Marty Brown
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
280 pages
10h 38m
English
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Appendix C. Power Factor Correction
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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 efficiently through the
broad use of power factor correction. Motors, electronic power supplies, and
fluorescent lighting consume about 40 percent of the power in the world and
each of these would benefit from power factor correction. From the mid-1990s
to 2002, many of the countries of the world are adopting requirements for power ...
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ISBN: 9780750673297