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    Capacitor is the main component that supplies capacitive reactance, which is negative reactive power. As most power systems have inductive loads, capacitors are used to compensate by producing leading current to reduce the lagging current and shrink the phase angle between real and apparent power. The power triangle shows the relationship between real power, reactive power, and apparent power.

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    Capacitor is the main component that supplies capacitive reactance, which is negative reactive power. As most power systems have inductive loads, capacitors are used to compensate by producing leading current to reduce the lagging current and shrink the phase angle between real and apparent power. The power triangle shows the relationship between real power, reactive power, and apparent power.

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    Capacitor is the main component that supplies capacitive reactance, which is negative reactive power. As most power systems have inductive loads, capacitors are used to compensate by producing leading current to reduce the lagging current and shrink the phase angle between real and apparent power. The power triangle shows the relationship between real power, reactive power, and apparent power.

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    Capacitor is the main component that supplies capacitive reactance, which is negative reactive power. As most power systems have inductive loads, capacitors are used to compensate by producing leading current to reduce the lagging current and shrink the phase angle between real and apparent power. The power triangle shows the relationship between real power, reactive power, and apparent power.

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    Capacitor is the main component that supplies capacitive reactance, which is

    negative
    reactive power. Since the power factor is the ratio of real power and apparent
    power,
    where apparent power has the relation with reactive power and real power as
    shown in
    the power triangle in figure 3-1. As majority power system has inductive loads
    thus
    normally only lagging power factor occurs hence capacitors are used to
    compensate by
    producing leading current to the load to reduce the lagging current, thereby
    shrink the
    phase angle distance between the real power and apparent power.

    Figure 3-1: Power triangle

    In alternating current power transmission and distribution, volt-ampere reactive (var) is a unit
    used to measure reactive power in an AC electric power system. Reactive power exists in an ac
    circuit when the current and voltage are not changing at the same time. The correct symbol is var
    and not VAr or VAR, but the latter two terms are widely used. The term var was proposed by the
    Romanian electrical engineer Constantin Budeanu and introduced in 1930 by the IEC in
    Stockholm, which has adopted it as the unit for reactive power.
    Vars may be considered as either the imaginary part of apparent power, or the power flowing
    into a reactive load, where voltage and current are specified in volts and amperes. The two
    definitions are equivalent.

    Reactive power
    Main article: AC power

    A sinusoidally alternating voltage applied to a purely resistive load results in an alternating


    current that is fully in phase with the voltage. In many applications it is however common for
    there to be a reactive component to the system, that is, the system possesses capacitance,
    inductance, or both. These electrical properties cause the current to change phase with respect to
    the voltage: capacitance tending the current to lead the voltage in phase, and inductance to lag it.

    For sinusoid currents and voltages at the same frequency, reactive power in vars is the product of
    the RMS voltage and current, or the apparent power, multiplied by the sine of the phase angle
    between the voltage and the current. The reactive power Q, (measured in units of volt-amperes
    reactive or var), is given by:

    where φ is the phase angle between the voltage and current.

    Only effective power, the actual power delivered to or consumed by the load, is expressed in
    watts. Imaginary power is properly expressed in volt-amperes reactive.

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