Case Study - Power Factor Improvement

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POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CASE STUDY

SITUATION
Bowne provides financial, marketing and business
communications services around the world. The Boston
facility, a world class printing plant, had excessive
charges from their electrical power provider based on
their facility’s abnormally low power factor levels.

PROJECT
Groom experts identified the source of the low
power factor levels and designed a power factor
correction strategy. By installing low harmonic
distortion electronically controlled capacitor banks
into the facility’s electrical network the power factor
level was corrected, thereby eliminating the periodic
demand charges from the utility.

RESULTS