Estudio de consumos energéticos y diseño de un banco de condensadores para la empresa Arenas industriales de Sogamoso

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze energy consumption in the company “Arenas Industriales de Sogamoso”, in search of determining the current state of the electrical network, to identify the power factor of the same, then design a capacitor bank that allows it bring it to values close to unity. This work showed that reactive power consumption is 87.3% in relation to active power, and that the overall power factor of the installation is 0.523, this being a very low value, since it makes the end user susceptible to receive charges and penalties for excessive consumption of reactive energy, in according with resolution CREG 015-2018. In addition, a bank of capacitors was calculated with a total reactive compensation capacity of 27.8 KVAr, corresponding to the sum of the reactive compensation values defined for each of the inductive circuits in the electrical network. With the implementation of this bank of capacitors, it is estimated that the new power factor of the electrical network will reach a value of 0.997, thus achieving that the reactive power corresponds only to 7.7% of the active power and preventing the company “Arenas Industriales de Sogamoso” has to make payments for consumption in excess of reactive energy.