12. A REVIEW ON POWER FACTOR CONTROLLING USING MICROCONTROLLER

Power quality is a key factor in all industrial many more applications. An industry need to maintain certain power quality standard during day-to - day work for variety of applications. Power quality of electricity provided by is additionally indispensable perspective. The best power quality serves to th e general creation and disposes of any kind of specialized issues decreasing expense of energy. The mains power factor is one of the significant boundary which chooses the nature of force. Whenever the need of responsive power turns out to be more, power f actor diminishes, lessening the effectiveness of force. Hence, there is need to add capacitance of required esteem when power factor goes beneath the predefined esteem ideally 0.92. Expansion of required capacitors decrease the misfortunes further develo ping influence factor. The paper proposes carefully controlled geography for performing Automatic power factor adjustment to further develop power quality. The plan and reproduction of Automatic power factor amendment framework utilizing Arduino UNO microc ontroller has been introduced in the paper.The framework power factor has been observed utilizing power factor transducer followed by Arduino microcontroller which control the exchanging of capacitor banks to receptive power and bring power factor near to unity enhancing power quality. The simulation result also presented in the paper.