IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Committee

IEEE Capacitor Subcommittee

IEEE/PES

 

Scope: Treatment of all shunt and series capacitor matters related to economics, technical design, theoretical and experimental performance, installation, application and service operation for use in power circuits of 60 Hertz and below for the purpose of affecting the performance or operating characteristics of the circuit.

 

 

Chairman:

Secretary:

Mark McVey
Dominion Virginia Power
Phone: 804-257-4637
Fax: 804-257-4750
e-mail: mark_mcvey@dom.com

Clay Fellers
Cooper Power Systems
Phone: 864-941-3115
Fax: 864-223-0048
e-mail: cfellers@cooperpower.com

 

 

 

Next Meeting:

The next meeting of the IEEE Capacitor Subcommittee will be at the IEEE PES Conference from July 22nd-24th, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


Hope to see you there!

Upcoming Events and Subcommittee News:

Preferred Topics for the Capacitor Subcommittee:

  • Innovative capacitor designs/installations
  • Experience with the application of capacitors
    • Shunt or Series
    • Externally Fused, Internally Fused, Fuseless or Unfused
    • Maintenance issues, outages, failure investigation/analysis, etc.
  • Harmonic filter capacitor banks
    • Application in harmonic rich environments
    • Unusual applications and/or constructions
  • Application of capacitors using power electronics
    • Inter-phase Power Controller (IPC)
    • Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitors (TCSC)
    • Others
  • Justification of capacitors in a deregulated environment
  • Evaluation of capacitor losses
  • Mobile capacitor banks

Capacitor Related Definitions:

This is an assembly of definitions used in various standards related to power capacitors. The listing is intended to include all of the definitions in IEEE Standards 18 (Capacitors), 1036 (Application Guide), 824 (Series Capacitors) and 1531 (Filter Guide); and definitions from other standards and references where they are similar to those listed or are otherwise relevant. The purpose is to allow convenient comparison of the definitions used in various standards.

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Subcommittee Minutes:

Download the following meeting minutes in Adobe Acrobat format:

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Subcommittee Membership:

Name

Company

M. McVey (Mark), Chairman

Dominion Virginia Power

C. Fellers (Clay), Secretary  

Cooper Power Systems

R. Alexander (Roy)

PPL Utilities

I. Ares (Ignacio)

Florida Power & Light Co.

S. Ashmore (Steve)

QVARx Inc.

B. Bhargava (Bharat)

Southern California Edison

J. A. Bonner (Antone)

Cooper Power Systems

T. Callsen (Thomas)

ComEd an Exelon Company

S. Cesari

Ente National per l’Energia Elettrica

B. Chai (Bill)

General Electric Company

S. Chano (Simon)

Hydro Quebec

S. Colvin (Stephen)

ABB Control, Inc

S. Edmondson (Stuart)

Duke Power Company

B. English (Bruce)

General Electric Company

C. Erven (Cliff)

Transient Eng., Inc.

K. Fender (Karl)

Cooper Power Systems

C. Gougler (Chuck)

e4 Solutions

T. Grebe (Tom)

Electrotek Concepts, Inc.

P. Griesmer (Paul)

Controllix Corporation

J. E. Harder (John)

Applications Consultant

L. Holloman (Luther)

Dominion Virginia Power

I. Horvat (Ivan)

ABB Inc.

S. B. Ladd (Steve)

Duke Power Company

C. Langford

Nevada Power Company

G. Lee (Gerald)

Bonneville Power Administration

J. H. Nelson (Jeff)

Tennessee Valley Authority

J. Maneatis (John)

Electric Power Systems

A. S. Mehraban (Ben)

American Electric Power

J. Osborne (Jim)

Osborne Transformer Corp.

P. Rancourt (Pier-Andre)

ABB Inc.

W. E. Reid (Ed)

Qual-Tech Engineers, Inc.

S. Rios-Marcuello (Sebastian)

Universidad Catolica De Chile

T. Rozek (Thomas)

Detroit Edison

D. R. Ruthman (Don)

Myron Zucker, Inc.

J. Samuelsson (Jan)

ABB Power System AB

E. Sanchez (Eugene)

Carolina Power & Light Co.

R. Sevigny (Richard)

TECAP Inc.

P. Steciuk (Paul)

Power Technology, Inc.

R. S. Thallam (Rao)

Salt River Project

A. Van Leuven (Allen)

Bonneville Power Administration

A. Zobaa (Ahmed)

Cairo University

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Subcommittee Standards Activity:

The following completed standards are maintained by workings groups and tasks forces in the subcommittee.

Working Groups of the Capacitor Subcommittee:

·         Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor Working Group

Chair: Duane Torgerson, Western Area Power Administration
Phone: 303-202-3978 / e-mail: torgerson@ieee.org

This Working Group is currently not active. This was a joint Working Group with the High Voltage Power Electronics Stations Subcommittee of the Substations Committee. The Working Group IEEE Std 1534-2002: Recommended Practice for Specifying Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitors. The document addresses issues that consider ratings for TCSC thyristor valve assemblies, capacitors and reactors as well as TCSC control characteristics, protective features, cooling systems, testing, commissioning, training, documentation, operation, and maintenance. Excluded from this document are detailed TCSC modeling considerations.

·         Shunt Capacitor Standard Working Group

Chair: Jeffrey Nelson, Tennessee Valley Authority
Phone: 423-751-8275 / e-mail: jhnelson@tva.gov

The latest revision to the Standard for Shunt Capacitors is IEEE 18-2002. This standard applies to capacitors rated 216 V or higher, 2.5 kvar or more, and designed for shunt connection to ac transmission and distribution systems operating at a nominal frequency of 50 or 60 Hz. Service conditions, ratings, manufacturing and testing are covered. The 2002 revision added significant new requirements for units applied in fuseless and internally fused capacitor banks. Currently, suggestions are being collected for the next revision of IEEE 18. Please send comments and suggestions to Jeff Nelson.

·         Series Capacitor Standard Working Group

Chair: Gerald Lee, Bonneville Power Administration
E-mail: grblee@ieee.org

This Working Group recently published IEEE 824-2004. This standard applies to capacitors and assemblies of capacitors, insulation means, switching, protective equipment, and control accessories that form a complete bank for inserting in series with a transmission line. Included are requirements for safety, rating, and protective device levels. Functional requirements for alarm devices, maintenance, design and production tests, and a guide for operation are included. Functional requirements for protective devices are addressed, including varistors and bypass gaps.

The Working Group wrote a paper that was published in 2001 regarding the application of series capacitors on distribution systems:

Considerations for the Application of Series Capacitors to Radial Power Distribution Circuits
Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on ,Volume: 16 , Issue: 2 , April 2001, Pages:306 - 318

·         Series Capacitor Specification Guide Working Group

Chair: Bruce English, General Electric
Phone: 518-746-5598 / Fax: 518-746-5226 / e-mail: bruce.english@ge.com

This Working Group is creating the Draft Guide for the Specification of Fixed Series Capacitor Banks for Transmission System Applications.

·         Shunt Capacitor Application Guide Working Group

Chair: Antone Bonner, Cooper Power Systems
Phone: 262-691-8358 / Fax: 262-835-1544 / e-mail: abonner@cooperpower.com

This Working Group is revising IEEE 1036-1992, Guide for the Application of Shunt Power Capacitors. This guide applies to the use of 50 and 60 Hz shunt power capacitors rated 2400 Vac and above, and assemblies of capacitors. Included are guidelines for the application, protection, and ratings of equipment for the safe and reliable utilization of shunt power capacitors. The guide covers applications that range from simple unit utilization to complex bank situations. The Working Group is currently adding guidelines for the application of fuseless and internally fused capacitor banks.

·         Harmonic Filter Working Group

Chair: Thomas Grebe, Electrotek Concepts, Inc.
Phone: 423-470-9222 / Fax: 423-470-9223 / e-mail: tgrebe@ieee.org

This Working Group is currently not active. The Working Group recently developed IEEE 1531-2003, Guide for Application and Specification of Harmonic Filters. This guide addresses the selection of the (1) components, (2) protection, and (3) control of harmonic filters. It does not address the engineering required to establish the proper size and configuration of harmonic filters to achieve desired performance. This document provides guidelines for passive shunt harmonic filters for use on 50 Hz and 60 Hz power systems to reduce harmonic distortion on the system(s). (No specific standards exist for harmonic filters, although standards do exist for most of the components that are used in a filter. This guide references standards where they exist and gives typical criteria where appropriate standards do not exist.)

·         Capacitor Technical Paper Working Group

Chair: Thomas Grebe, Electrotek Concepts, Inc.
Phone: 423-470-9222 / Fax: 423-470-9223 / e-mail: tgrebe@ieee.org

This Working Group is responsible for the technical review of papers submitted for IEEE publication which are related to the economics, technical design, theoretical and experimental performance, installation, application and service operation of power capacitors.

·         Capacitor Bibliography Working Group

Chair: Richard Sevigny, TECAP Inc.
Phone: 450-714-3260 / e-mail: tecap@videotron.ca

This Working Group is responsible for compiling a listing of all pertinent publications and articles related to the economics, technical design theoretical and experimental performance, installation, application and service operation of power capacitors. The most current bibliographies are the Bibliography on Shunt Power Capacitors, and the Bibliography on Series Power Capacitors. These two bibliographies are available in the IEEE Power Capacitor Standards Collection.

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