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What you say, increasing the power factor may increase machine efficiency or reduce monthly electric bill?

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Question added by Rizwan Azam , Manager Electrical Maintenance , Alif Industry Lahore
Date Posted: 2014/02/09
muhammad arif
by muhammad arif , Assistant Engineer , Phoenix armour

the unit use become smaller of power use become little small

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Actually By Maintaining Unity Power Factor, the machineries consumes exact current to run the machine. This leads to the Reduce in the Bill Cost

Leonardo Banzali
by Leonardo Banzali , Electrical Maintenance-trainer , Sadara Chemical Company

Improving the power factor has no specific change to individual equipment efficiency but it will benefit to the overall capacity of the system. Electric power cost is determined by the individual equipment energy comsumption and the overall load factor of the system.

Rizwan Azam
by Rizwan Azam , Manager Electrical Maintenance , Alif Industry Lahore

Brothers! load the capacitor bank in running system and check its KWH the unload capacitor back from the running system and see what happens. I wish you may have good answer to tell then.

Hashem Hassanien
by Hashem Hassanien , Projects Engineer , alfanar

it's mainly reduces the bill cost

Osama Sobhy Hamdan
by Osama Sobhy Hamdan , Senior Electrical Engineer , POWERLINE SOLUTIONS

 

increasing power factor increase machine efficiency and   reduce monthly electric bill because we reduce the currnt and the reactive power the machain take from power sourse

 

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