Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
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ISBN: 9780078028229
Author: Charles K Alexander, Matthew Sadiku
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 11, Problem 92CP
As shown in Fig. 11.97, a 550-V feeder line supplies an industrial plant consisting of a motor drawing 90 kW at 0.8 pf (inductive), a capacitor with a rating of 20 kVAR, and lighting drawing 10 kW.
- (a) Calculate the total reactive power and apparent power absorbed by the plant.
- (b) Determine the overall pf.
- (c) Find the magnitude of the current in the feeder line.
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