optimal sitting and sizing of shunt capacitor banks at the distribution networks for the purpose of power quality improvement is drawn much attention of electric power utilities in the last decades. determining the optimal number, location and sizing of capacitor using bee colony optimization algorithm (bco) is being presented in this paper. the bco algorithm is a new population based meta-heur...

The capacitance range for tantalum capacitors spans from singular microfarads (uFd) through a thousand microfarads. It is an electrolytic type of capacitor that can utilize either a liquid type of electrolyte or a solid state material as the cathode connection. The anode construction utilizes the high porosity of the pressed tantalum material to create an enormous amount of surface area to prod...

Condition-monitoring systems are used to determine the best timing for predictive maintenance of power electronics converters. These monitoring can significantly reduce converter repair time and increase system availability. In this article, an investigation has been conducted on possibility using dissipation factor as a lifetime indicator electrolytic capacitors. A criterion is also proposed b...

Flexible characteristics, tunable parameters, and improved power density are the desired attributes that have led to widespread research on active capacitors inductors (ACI) in conversion systems. However, two-terminal realisation of ACI is challenging due different trade-offs between density, device stress, reliability added components. Moreover, requirement handling second-harmonic ripple mak...