Schneider Electric AccuSine PCS+ and AccuSine PFV+ active filters

Schneider Electric has announced the AccuSine PCS+ and AccuSine PFV+ active filters.

AccuSine PCS+ is an active filter that stabilises electrical networks, providing fast harmonic cancellation, power factor correction and load balancing. It exceeds all harmonic standards worldwide and is claimed to be the only harmonic filter in the world to have THD(I) or THD(V) set points (it provides 3% THD(I) when 3% impedance and filter output is greater than 50% of its rating). Unlike passive filters, the product cannot be overloaded and is best applied as a system-wide solution to provide a dynamic output that adjusts as the load changes.

Also now available is AccuSine PFV+, an active reactive current compensation system. The system provides high-speed dynamic, stepless power factor correction and load balancing of electrical networks with lagging or leading power factors. With a faster response time (1/4 cycle), the product is an alternative to detuned or antiresonant capacitor banks.

A faster response time allows AccuSine PFV+ to correct additional power quality problems, such as flicker created by loads internal to the facility. In addition, the product has infinite resolution of correction versus capacitor banks that have discrete steps. This results in greater precision and accuracy, without voltage spikes caused by stepped capacitor bank changes.

Both AccuSine PCS+ and PFV+ feature flexible, multifunction designs that offer top or bottom cable routing and are more compact than previous models. Both feature electronic displacement power factor correction, stepless response for power factor correction, mains current balancing and VAR injection.