2. General
2.1 Historical overview
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The Leyden bottle (1745) was the first electrical energy storage capacitor. It was used in numerous physics experiments in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Capacitors were only used industrially to improve power factor around 1920. These devices, installed on networks, are single-tank units with a reactive power of around 500 to 1,000 kvar. Their dielectric consists of sheets of paper impregnated with mineral oil.
In France, this technique continued until the early 1950s. At that time, single-tank units were replaced by single-phase capacitor banks using all-paper technology impregnated with mineral oil. The electric field is 12 V/µm,...
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References
Standardization
Company Specification (Électricité de France)
- Condensateurs de puissance à moyenne tension à diélectrique mixte imprégné par un liquide diélectrique non chloré avec ou sans fusibles internes. - HN 54‐S‐03 - 1989
- Condensateurs de puissance shunt autorégénérateurs destinés à être installés sur des réseaux à courant alternatif de tension assignée jusqu'à 1 000 V inclus. - HN 54‐S‐04 - 1991
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