09.01 Types of Reactors
09.01 Types of Reactors
With regard to design and installation, the shunt reactor is identified as:
single-phase or three-phase; Esto aplica solo para el centro de la
dry-type or liquid-immersed; bobina, ya que por fuera usan shield
air-core or gapped-core;
Columnas para concentrar el flujo que
with or without magnetic shield; no se retorne por el aire
for indoor or outdoor installation;
for fixed or variable reactance;
linear or saturated.
Knowledge of the magnetic characteristic may be necessary for the purchaser and shall
be provided on request. It may be determined by measurement or by calculation.
Current-limiting Reactor
Reactor connected in series in a power system to limit the short-time or short-
circuit current under system fault conditions
During normal operation, a continuous current flows through this type of reactor
Neutral-earthing Reactor
Single phase reactor connected between the neutral of a three-phase power
system and earth to limit the line-to-earth current under system earth fault
conditions to a desired value
Neutral-earthing reactors generally carry very little or no continuous current
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Reactor connected in series with a motor to limit the inrush current during the
motor starting operation
Power flow control reactors connected in series in a power system to control the
power flow
Arc-furnace series reactors connected in series with an arc-furnace to increase
the efficiency of the metal melting operation and reduce voltage variation on the
power system
Insertion reactors momentarily connected across the contacts of a switching
device for synchronising and/or for damping switching transients
Test reactors used in the electrical test circuit of a high power laboratory for
adjusting the test current to the required value
Converter or phase reactors connected in series to a voltage source converter to
accommodate the voltage caused by the dissimilar wave shapes at the converter
terminals and the AC bus
With regard to design and installation, reactors covered under this Clause are classified
as:
single-phase or three-phase
dry-type or liquid-immersed type
air-core or gapped-core
with or without magnetic shield
with or without taps
for indoor or outdoor installation
dry-type with each phase mounted side-by-side or in a vertical stack.
Damping Reactor
Reactor connected in series with shunt capacitors to limit the inrush current when the
capacitor is energized, limit the outrush current during close-in faults or adjacent
capacitor switching and/or to detune capacitor banks in order to avoid resonance with
the power system
Filter Reactor
Reactor connected in series or in parallel with capacitors to reduce or block harmonics
or control signals (ripple signals) with frequencies up to 10 kHz
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Discharge Reactor
Reactor used in the bypass/discharge circuit of high voltage power system series
capacitor bank applications to limit the current under fault conditions
Arc-suppression Reactor
Reactor connected between the neutral of a power system and earth to compensate for
the capacitive line-to-earth current due to a single-phase earth-fault (resonant-earthed
system)
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a star-connected main winding with a delta connected stabilizing winding. The
delta winding may be left open in order to permit the insertion of an internal or
external resistor or reactor to adjust the zero- sequence impedance
Smoothing Reactor
Reactor connected in series in a DC system to reduce the flow of alternating currents
and transient overcurrents
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Magnetic Characteristic
The magnetic characteristic of a reactor is the relationship of the linked flux of the
reactor winding versus current (see Figure 1 and Figure 2).
NOTE The magnetic characteristic may be linear as shown in Figure 1a, non-linear as
shown in Figure 1b or saturated as shown in Figure 1c.
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Magnetic Shield
Ferromagnetic part of a reactor designed for flux control purposes located outside the
reactor winding
NOTE: This includes yokes, unwound limbs, magnetic tank shunts etc.
Air-Core Reactor
A reactor designed without any ferromagnetic material inside or outside the winding for
flux control purposes (usually dry-type reactors)
𝐴𝐹𝐸
𝐿 = 𝑤 2 𝜇𝑜
𝐻𝑊
Iron-Core Reactor
𝐴𝐹𝐸
𝐿 = 𝑤 2 𝜇𝐹𝐸
𝑙𝐹𝐸
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Gapped-Core Reactor
Reactor designed with a gapped ferromagnetic core inside the winding (usually liquid
immersed reactors)
𝐴𝐹𝐸
𝐿 ≈ 𝑤 2 𝜇𝑜
𝑙𝛿
𝐴𝐹𝐸
𝐿 ≈ 𝑤 2 𝜇𝑜
𝑙𝐴𝐼𝑅
𝑙𝐴𝐼𝑅 = 𝑙1 + 𝑙2 + 𝑙3 + 𝑙4
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Magnetically-Shielded Air-Core Reactor
Reactor designed without any ferromagnetic material inside the winding but
incorporating a magnetic shield outside the winding for flux control purposes
Single-Phase Reactor
Three-Phase Reactor