Optimized Capacitor Bank Design for Capacitive Current Test for High Power Laboratory and Analysis with EMTP Simulation

대전력 시험소의 부하시험용 콘덴서 뱅크의 최적 설계 및 EMTP 해석

High Power Laboratory is the facility for building to simulate the various phenomena generated from electric systems of the real world and to test making and breaking capability, switching capability and durability of circuit breaker, switchgear and other electric utilities, moreover, load equipments which contain capacitor bank is installed for studying the diverse effects originated from the constituent of load through entire systems or receiving end. Such factors, abnormal voltage or current, can be serious in electrical systems, especially, in the case caused by capacitive components such as overvoltage or inrushcurrent, the problems may be more fatal to the systems. In this paper, the optimal design of capacitor bank which will be equipped in High Power Laboratory, which is for simulating as closely as the practical phenomena resulted from the capacitive currents, and the verification aided by computer simulations are presented. For this, analysis of the circuit characteristics according to the standards which can be criteria of the capacitive current tests and the test circuit configuration in accordance with the analysis are proposed in prelude. In the body of the paper the optimal design of capacitor bank has been obtained on the basis of all conditions mentioned above and the test circuit configuration with LGIS test requirements. furthermore, analysis and verification for the design are derived by EMTP. finally, evaluation for the capacitor bank design and further study plan are concluded.