Bahria University,

Karachi Campus

COURSE: CEN-121 CIRCUIT ANALYSIS

TERM: SPRING 2020, CLASS: BCE- 2 (A)

Submitted By:

HUZAIFA ALI ASIF 02-132192-022

(Name) (Reg. No.)

Submitted To:

Engr. Ali Ahmed/ Engr. Zohaib Rehman

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 QUADRATURE AND REACTIVE POWER

REACTIVE POWER:

Reactive power is the resultant power of an AC circuit when the current waveform is out
of phase with the waveform of the voltage. If the load, either capacitive or inductive, is
purely reactive then usually the phase difference is by 90 degrees. Reactive loads are
loads that store electrical energy temporarily, ready to feed it back in a dynamic way.

Only when current is in phase with voltage there is actual work done, such as in
resistive loads. Resistive loads are loads that just consume electrical energy.

An example is powering an incandescent light bulb; in a reactive load energy flows

toward the load half the time, whereas in the other half power flows from it, which gives
the illusion that the load is not dissipating or consuming power [1].

QUADRATURE POWER:

Waves or periodic motions having the lag of angle of one of the waves, with reference
to one in advance of it, is 90°, are said to be in quadrature with each other. If the voltage
and current of a power line are in quadrature, the power factor is zero and no real power
is delivered to the load [2].

∴ cos 90°=0

An example of this is the sine wave and the cosine wave [3].
REFRENCES:
[1] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/15008/reactive-power
[2] https://www.definitions.net/definition/quadrature
[3] https://www.tek.com/blog/what%E2%80%99s-your-iq-%E2%80%93-about-
quadrature-signals%E2%80%A6