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    Displacement power factor considers only the fundamental frequency current and voltage, while true power factor includes the effects of harmonic distortion. True power factor is equal to the displacement power factor multiplied by the distortion power factor. The document demonstrates through ETAP simulation examples that for a linear load, the displacement and true power factors are equal since there is no harmonic distortion. However, for a non-linear load, the true power factor is lower than the displacement power factor due to the increased total harmonic distortion introduced by the non-linear load.

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    Displacement power factor considers only the fundamental frequency current and voltage, while true power factor includes the effects of harmonic distortion. True power factor is equal to the displacement power factor multiplied by the distortion power factor. The document demonstrates through ETAP simulation examples that for a linear load, the displacement and true power factors are equal since there is no harmonic distortion. However, for a non-linear load, the true power factor is lower than the displacement power factor due to the increased total harmonic distortion introduced by the non-linear load.

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    Displacement power factor considers only the fundamental frequency current and voltage, while true power factor includes the effects of harmonic distortion. True power factor is equal to the displacement power factor multiplied by the distortion power factor. The document demonstrates through ETAP simulation examples that for a linear load, the displacement and true power factors are equal since there is no harmonic distortion. However, for a non-linear load, the true power factor is lower than the displacement power factor due to the increased total harmonic distortion introduced by the non-linear load.

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    Displacement power factor considers only the fundamental frequency current and voltage, while true power factor includes the effects of harmonic distortion. True power factor is equal to the displacement power factor multiplied by the distortion power factor. The document demonstrates through ETAP simulation examples that for a linear load, the displacement and true power factors are equal since there is no harmonic distortion. However, for a non-linear load, the true power factor is lower than the displacement power factor due to the increased total harmonic distortion introduced by the non-linear load.

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    Displacement Power Factor

    Displacement Power Factor is defined as cosine of the angle between fundamental voltage and
    fundamental current of the load.

    Distortion Power Factor

    The definition of power factor relates the current in the primary harmonic to the RMS current
    contained in all harmonics:

    Definition of distortion power factor in terms of total RMS current in all harmonics

    We can define this in terms of the total harmonic distortion (THD)

    Definition of distortion power factor in terms of THD

    True Power Factor


    True Power Factor= Distortion Factor x Displacement Factor

    Difference between True Power Factor and displacement Power Factor?

    • True power factor includes harmonic content.


    • Displacement power factor only considers the fundamental frequency.
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    ETAP SIMULATION
    DISPLACEMENT POWER FACTOR, DISTORTION POWER FACTOR AND
    TRUE POWER FACTOR

    Illustration 3

    Input Data: Grid data- SC current-25 kA, X/R=14, Rated voltage-110kV


    Transformer data – 25MVA, 110/11kV, typical impedance data
    Linear load – 20MVA, 11kV, 80% power factor
    Non-linear load - 20MVA, 11kV, 80% power factor, ACS600 6P current harmonic source
    Calculate the distortion p.f, displacement p.f and true p.f after the power factor correction.

    Fig 1.LFA for linear load Fig 2.Harmonic LF for linear load

    True Power Factor= Distortion Factor x Displacement Factor


    Linear load
    Before Compensation After Compensation
    Displacement P.f 0.7636 0.998
    Distortion p.f THDi=0 1 1
    True p.f 0.7636 0.998
    Table .True p.f for linear loads
    3

    Fig 3.LFA for non-linear load Fig 4.Harmonic LF for non-linear load

    Non-Linear load
    Before Compensation After Compensation
    Displacement P.f 0.7636 0.998
    THD 0.4 1.18
    Distortion p.f 0.928476691 0.646521695
    True p.f 0.708984801 0.645228652
    Table .True p.f for non-linear loads

    ✓ True power factor changes in the non-linear loads due to the total harmonic distortion.

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