Power Factor Correction

Medium Voltage Automatic Capacitor Bank

Save energy and reduce Carbon dioxide emission!

FRANKE GMKP LTD.

Http://www.frankegmkp.com
17015 Berlin,Germany
Email:info@frankegmkp.com
C1607 Software Park, National Hi-Tech
Industry Development Area, Wuxi
Tel: 510 85211911
Fax: 510 85215070
Email:info@frankeenergy.com
FRANKE GMKP, a leading manufacturer with German Quality

Company brief

FRANKE GMKP is a leading

company for design, manufacturing
& marketing of Power Factor
Correction, Energy Management
and Intelligent Power Efficiency
located in Berlin Germany.

Many years of continuous

technology development leads
FRANKE GMKP now to one of the
world’s best quality and solution
provider of Power Quality and
Energy Efficient system, as well as
all needed components and devices
Following our high German
technology standard FRANKE
GMKP became a international
operating company with distributors,
manufacturers and administrative
centres in Germany, England,
China, India, Turkey, Italy, Hong
Kong and many more. Our customer
are including many world’s top
companies like Siemens, ABB,VW
and so on, we are pride that we are
an important supplier of many world
famous brand-capacitor
manufacturers for their (OEM)
production!
All our products are not only
designed to highest international
standards and certificates, moreover
FRANKE GMKP also focuses on
highest customer satisfaction,
reliability and system integrity, also
FRANKE GMKP’s system of quality
assurance has been approved by
the highest international standards.
Our customer service has a top
priority in order to provide
comprehensive and versatile
support and establish a mutually
beneficial, long term corporation and
partnership.
In addition FRANKE GMKP has the
ability to provide individual solutions
according costumers request.

FRANKE GMKP ENERGY---

for a better power !

 FRANKE GMKP’s Technology of Medium Voltage Capacitors
General Information

The power capacitors produced by The purpose is to protect the capacitor

FRANKE GMKP were specially designed against excessive pressure increase
for reactive power compensation. Using inside. The inner connections are
state of the art technology and separated for this purpose from the main
high-quality materials have enabled us to supply.
develop a range of capacitors to meet the
The internal construction includes
demands of the future. Furthermore
lengthwise separate windings of high
FRANKE GMKP’s products and system of
quality, resistant, metalized polypropylene
manufacturing and service is part of the
films. For example, a three phase
new environmental protection industry
capacitor has therefore three windings.
and will strongly work further to improve
The quality of the polypropylene film is
our world’s conditions.
significantly responsible for the
GMKP type name self-healing ability of the capacitors and so
our special metallization procedure
FRANKE GMKP’s registered type name
ensures a high degree of capacitor
worldwide based on FRANK GMKP’s own
self-healing.
special German technology.
Our capacitors are delivered with the
FRANKE GMKP prime advantages are:
appropriate discharge resistors. FRANKE
• completely dry capacitor construction, GMKP’s special design is the internal
so there are no possibility of out flow resistors. In case of high power
• special one form capacitor cane, also
consumption we so avoid arcs outside the
minimize possibilities for leaks
• no PCB using capacitor to protect the equipment from
• filled with protective gas burning and over-heating. Another
• fireproofing advance of this design is to reduce the
• overpressure and over-current tear off
time for discharging in addition with very
fuse
• self healing polypropylene foil low resistor losses and at least safe space
• stable fixed connection for installing the capacitor.
• long life working

Construction features
Application

For capacitors long life properly working Power transmission stations.

the construction and manufacturing
process has high priority and is constantly
observed by FRANKE GMKP’s specialists.
All GMKP power capacitors have
cylindrical extruded aluminium housing
with a special three cascade sealing
method for the capacitor cane to provide
leaks. Another FRANKE GMKP’s special
is the double safety system, which not only
protect in case of overpressure, but also
switch the capacitor off in case of
over-current.
Excellent single phase capacitor
Individual solution for fixed power
units
factor correction (e.g. Motor,
transformers, lighting etc.)
Group fixed power factor correction
(several equipment connected in a
group)
All kind of capacitor banks.
Harmonic trap applications (e.g. oven,
UPS, frequency drives and converters
etc.)
Special application such as filter, DC
transmission, etc.
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Automatic Capacitor Bank indoor type
The series Automatic Step Capacitor Banks & it’s connection products of
Metal-Enclosed Capacitor Bank are especially designed to compensate the
reactive energy in power networks outdoor for the normal load or
with harmonics content, permitting not only the correction of the fluctuation
caused by lineal, but also the non-lineal electrical loads.

Features: Connection Automatic Capacitor Bank

-indoor mounting
-Automatic 6 steps Max.
-Automatic protection of voltage and current,
-Automatic harmonic(THD) cut off
-Internal fuse capacitor unit
–Vacuum contactor switching
-Detuned / filter reactor connection
-Communication are available on request.

Benefit capacitor

Electrical Environment

Long life cycle (200000 hours) Non-pollution, Non PCB

Highest pulse current withstand Environmentally friendly manufactured
capability Recyclable
Corona-free Easy to dispose
very low losses
Internal fuse protection
Terminal for high capacity cables Safety
with steel assistant
Oil mixed with special protection gas design
Mounting Internal protection fuse with the weak point
Reduced mounting costs Plus pressure inside the cane
Any position mounting Non-flammable
Maintenance-free robust terminals
strong design of the end steel case

Outdoor application :Metal-enclosed

Automatic Capacitor Bank

Outdoor application:: Connection Outdoor Metal-enclosed

Automatic Capacitor Bank
Metal-Enclosed Automatic Capacitor Bank

Features:
-Outdoor/IP54 mounting
-Stainless steel cabinet
-Automatic protection of voltage and current,
-Automatic harmonic(THD) cut off(capital
-Internal fuse capacitor unit
-Detuned / filter reactor connection
-Automatic step are available on request
-Communication are available on request.
 Medium Voltage Automatic Capacitors Bank
Special technology Capacitors Special Internal fuse with the weak
point design
New media of oil mixed with -more exactitude and orientation
protection gas under 3 vacuum - Exactitude cutting time
processing

-Dissolve the atom-water oil dielectric by the The fuse will be cut off only on the 1.) Discharge resistor. 2.) Internal fuse
with the weak point. 3.) Elements
gas position of the weak point of the fuse
-Excellent radiator by the gas
-Plus pressure by the gas inside the can
prevent the empty internal can
-excellent isolation gas lead to better
electricity ability
-three vacuum processing pledged higher
quality(normal 2 processing only)

The curves are as following

Fig.1 capacitor vs. temperature curve
Fig. 2 Loss angle vs. temperature for mixed
dielectric
Fig.3 Loss angle vs. temperature of all film capacitor
Fig.4 reduction of capacitor life as a function of the
overvoltage coefficient at constant temperature
FRANKE’s Capacitors have better function of this
curve
Fig.5 reduction of capacitor life as an average
ambient temperature at constant voltage
-Fig.1,when the voltage of the units close
to its maximum amplitude, that is, at zone
current, in this case, it is power stored in
the capacitance of the parallel elements
which best guarantees a current sufficient
to rupture the internal fuse
-Fig.2, when the voltage of the units close
to the zone, that is, at zone to maximum
current, in this case, it is line current
circulating in the capacitor assembly which
ensures breaking of the internal fuse.

Bushing:
Bushing isolation distance according to the
IEC standard is as following table:

type Highest BIL D Cree page

system (KV) (mm) Distance
voltage (mm) Oil mixed with gas technology by three
high vacuum processing
1 10--12 28/75 >180 >215

2 23—24 50/150 >260 >470

3. 35--36 70/170 >305 >575

Cree page distance

 Medium Voltage Automatic Capacitors Bank

Specification:

System Voltage KV: 6KV,10KV,11KV,12KV,24KV,33KV,36KV, (other voltage on request)

Rated Power capacitor: 300Kvar to 10000Kvar (other power on request)

Frequency: 50/60 Hz

Standards: capacitor::IEC60871-1 ,system: IEC71-1-1993 ,Switchgear::IEC60694（2001）

Max. Overvoltage(V): 1.1UN (up to 8 hours daily),1.15UN (up to 30 minutes daily)

1.2UN (up to 5 minutes), 1.3UN (up to 1 minutes)

Over-current(A) 1,3 * IN

Capacitance tolerance(µF): -5 / +5% capacitors,-10% to +10% capacitor bank

Test voltage, terminal / terminal: 4,3 * UN DC, 10 s or 2,15 * UN AC, 10 s

Test voltage, terminal / case: According to relevant IEC standard for 10 s

Insulating levels(KV): 10/40 kV; 20/60 kV; 28/75 kV; 38/95 kV; 50/125 kV

Dielectric & Capacitors losses: 0,15 W / kvar & 0,5 W / kvar (with discharge resistors)

Life expectancy: >150000 hours

IP Rating: IP 00, indoor( IP 42 or IP54 on request,)

Ambient temperature category: -40 / C or on request

Cooling: Natural by air (fan system on request)

Humidity: maximum 95 %

Max altitude: 1000 m above sea level or up to 2000m. (others on request)

Reactor connection: 6%,1%,12%,13%,14% etc .resin dry reactors

System protection: Over current / voltage, unbalance voltage protection, ZnO2 arrester protection.

Capacitor Safety features: Internal fuses of the or without fuse Environmentally friendly, non toxic(non-PCB)

Switchgear Vacuum contactor switchgear

Dielectric capacitor and reactor: All film, Capacitor Polypropylene film (all film),special oil or oil with special gas.
Resin dry copper reactor(normal 6% detuned)
Excellent three phase capacitor unit
Discharge protection: Capacitor 75 V, 5 min or 50V 5min. by the resistor, system by the discharge coil

Capacitor step One step(fixed type) to 6 steps

Capacitor Connection: Single phase capacitor by star connection.(three phase capacitor for fixed type)

Application Indoor or outdoor application

 Medium Voltage Automatic Capacitors Bank

Electric connection
Dry type reactor and discharge coil.
for the capacitor bank detuned and
the capacitor discharge

10kV
QS

FV

FU
TV
C

for example: 3 steps automatic capacitor bank connected with the reactor and the HRC fuse
protection.

Cabinet draws

for example:4 steps automatic capacitor bank

Automatic Capacitor Bank Outdoor Automatic Capacitor Bank

Vacuum capacitor contactor for

automatic step switching
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System electric control and protection

Display

U, I, power fact, P, S, Hz,

THD(V),THD(I)
harmonic current 3 to 15th
Umax, Imax, Pmax, Smax,
Umin, Imin, Pmin, Smin.
CT ratio display
target power fact
Kvar each step
time display

Electric Protection

over voltage protection

over current protection
over harmonic protection
over load protection
cable free touch protection
over temperature protection
operation indication
system protection of unbalance
voltage or unbalance current

Mechanical protection

key look protection

IP55 protection outdoor application
capacitor internal fuse protection

Control

automatic or mode
manual mode
Hi-Fi step control
Max. 10 steps
alarm output

Standard programming

Target power factor max. and min.

CT ratio
stage ratio
power each step
alarm output
mode of automatic or manual
 Medium Voltage Automatic Capacitors Bank

Electric connection automatic controller

Application of fiex (one step) capacitor bank

-indoor mounting
-fixed capacitor step
-HRC fuse protection
-Internal fuse capacitor unit
-Detuned / filter reactor connection

View of the automatic capacitor bank

fixed capacitor cabinet outdoor mounting are available on request

 Medium Voltage Automatic Capacitors Bank

Main Rates
Order No. Normal Kvar Kvar Reactor Power Quanti Dimension
ty of
GMKPHbTBB-- steps of the of unit 3Phase each total , each
capacitor step
step Cabine Cabinet
Single phase if 6% detuned ts
(HxLxD, mm)
(Kvar) (KVA)

300Kvar 2 150x2 50 9 3 2200x1200x800

500Kvar 2 250x2 83.3 15 3 2200x1200x800

1000Kvar 2 500x2 167 30 3 2200x1200x800

1500Kvar 3 500x3 167 30 4 2200x1200x800

2000Kvar 3 500+1000+1500 167+334+500 30+60+90 4 2200x1200x800

2500Kvar 3 500+1000+2000 167+334+667 30+60+120 4 2200x1200x800

3000Kvar 3 1000x3 334 60 4 2200x1200x800

3600Kvar 3 1200x3 400 72 3 2200x1200x800

4000Kvar 3 1000x2+2000 334+334+667 60+60+120 4 2200x1200x800

6000Kvar 4 1000x4 334 60 5 2200x1200x800

10000Kvar 6 1000X4+2000x3 334+667 60+120 7 2200x1200x1200

other rates/steps are available on request

Order information:

System voltage
Load information
Power factor before and after(target one)
Power in Kvar of the capacitor bank
Capacitor automatic step request
Harmonics information and reactor request
Cabinet dimension request.
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FRANKE GMKP has founded successful corporation with famous brands and manufacturer
all over the world. Because of FRANKE GMKP does strongly work to keep and improve a
German Quality level, we were selected by international renowned companies (like ABB,
Siemens, and LS) for using our products.

Beside the world famous brands, FRANKE GMKP is partner of major projects like (Olympic
projects, diversion, DC input Electricity, etc.).Moreover FRANKE is supplier of many famous
foreign brand-capacitor manufacturers for their (OEM) production of capacitors. In addition to our
capacitor manufacturing FRANKE GMKP ENERGY CONTROL provides a wide range of products
for power factor correction (PFC), such like:

MV Capacitors MV Dry &Air Coil reactors Capacitor Banks of: automatic, Pole mounted and open Racks

FRANKE GMKP LTD.

17015 Berlin,Germany Email:info@frankegmkp.com
C1607 Software Park, National Hi-Tech Industry Development Area, Wuxi.
Tel 510 85211911, Fax:510 85215070 Email:info@frankeenergy.com
Http://www.frankegmkp.com