PART IV - Power Capacitors and Reactive Power Controls
Chapter 26. Protection, maintenance and testing of capacitor units
• Protection and safety requirements
• Installation and maintenance of capacitor units
• Test requirements
Protection and safety requirements
As discussed in the previous chapters, a capacitor may have to encounter many unfavourable service conditions when in operation. Most of them may lead to its direct over-loading. Summing up all such conditions, a capacitor would need protection against the following: