SVC Driven & Shunt Reactor Compensation Systems
SVC Driven & Shunt Reactor Compensation Systems
In industrial facilities and complex energy infrastructures, businesses that often operate under low load conditions;
- Continuously varying reactive power demand, even at low levels,
- Unpredictable changes in both inductive and capacitive reactive power regions,
- And the unbalanced distribution of reactive power loads across phases make accurate and precise reactive power compensation challenging.
In compensation systems, single-phase and three-phase shunt reactors used alongside capacitors can compensate for reactive loads in the capacitive direction.
However, especially in low-load operating conditions where highly precise balancing of inductive and capacitive reactive power is required, the use of driver-controlled single-phase shunt reactors offers significant ease and success.
Description
This structure, known as Low Voltage SVC (Static VAr Compensation), essentially uses single-phase shunt reactors driven by a drive unit to precisely meet the inductive loading requirements for all three phases, providing balanced and rapid compensation success proportional to each phase’s individual demand.
SVC (Static VAr Compensator) driven shunt reactor compensation solutions are a frequently preferred choice due to their ability to:
- Balance system voltage against sudden load changes and enhance grid stability with fast response times,
- Minimize reactive power losses, thereby reducing energy costs,
- Operate by receiving measurement data from either low or high voltage, and adapt to and integrate with virtually all facility infrastructures.