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Lect 11 Reactors

The document discusses series and shunt reactors in power systems, highlighting their roles in voltage regulation and fault current limitation. Series reactors are used to limit short circuit currents, providing a cost-effective solution, though they can cause voltage drops. A numerical example illustrates the calculation of fault MVA in a generating station with reactors and generators.

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Lect 11 Reactors

The document discusses series and shunt reactors in power systems, highlighting their roles in voltage regulation and fault current limitation. Series reactors are used to limit short circuit currents, providing a cost-effective solution, though they can cause voltage drops. A numerical example illustrates the calculation of fault MVA in a generating station with reactors and generators.

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Power System Analysis II

Anwar Ali Sahito


Electrical Engineering, MUET
Series Reactors
Reactors
• Reactor is a inductive coil
• Its resistance is negligible compared to its
inductance
• It causes negligible power losses
• Shunt reactors for voltage regulation in low
load conditions
• Harmonic filters
Series Reactors
• Fault current which flows for a fault at any
given point in a power system is
determined by the impedance of the power
system as seen from the point of fault.
• By increasing impedance, fault current can
be limited
• Reduced fault current allows to use
smaller capacity circuit breakers and
conductors
• Series reactors are impedances connected in series to
limit short circuit current
• It provides cost effective solution with minimum space
requirement
• Its disadvantage is voltage drop resulting in increased
voltage regulation requirement specially with low power
factor loads
• Generator reactors
• Bus reactors
• Feeder reactors
Generator Reactors
Feeder Reactors
Numerical
A generating station has four bus-bar sections, each section is
connected to tie-bar through 20% reactors rated at 20MVA.
Generators of total capacity of 100 MVA and 20% reactance are
connected to each bus-bar section. Calculate the MVA fed to a fault
under short circuit conditions on one of the bus-bars.
Taking 100MVA as the base value and calculating the %X of
generators and reactors at this base value, we get;
2
MVANEW  kVOLD 
% X NEW = % X OLD   
MVAOLD  kVNEW 

100
% X R = 20   (1) = 100%
2

20
100
% X G = 20   (1) = 20%
2

100
140% ∗ 20%
𝑋𝑇𝑂𝑇𝐴𝐿 = = 17.5%
140% + 20%

100 100
𝐹𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑀𝑉𝐴 = 𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑀𝑉𝐴 ∗ = 100 ∗ = 571.43 𝑀𝑉𝐴
𝑋𝑇𝑂𝑇𝐴𝐿 17.5

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