Load balancing by unbalanced capacitive shunt compensation — A numerical approach

Abstract

The paper presents the results of few numerical applications for sustaining the idea of unbalancing transversal capacitive compensation like a method for balancing the load of the electrical distribution networks and consequently to increase the voltage quality and the efficiency. The load balancing, analytical described by the annulment of negative component of the currents on the load phases, is possible by using a three-phase shunt compensator in delta connection, which contains only capacitive susceptances and/or inductive susceptances. The authors sustain in this paper the advantages of using simplified compensators, which contains only capacitive susceptances, and which, in the most of practical situations allows the total or almost total balancing of the load. The structures of this compensators will conduce to low costs, even when this are used for an on-line compensation, the capacitive susceptances control is individually depending on the nature and the dimension of the load unbalancing. The paper contains numerical examples regarding a three-phase low voltage network.