A Direct Method for Identifying the Optimal Power Factor Correction in Nonsinusoidal Systems

1 July 1985

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems

Vol. PAS-104 (4) , 959-964
https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAS.1985.319097

Abstract

This paper presents a new method employing the Golden Section search algorithm to determining the capacitor value for optimal power-factor correction in a nonsinusoidal system. The major attribute of the method is that it, unlike conventional approaches, guarantees convergence to the optimal-solution.

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