The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B (대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B)

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Analysis Of Dielectric Recovery Characteristics for $SF_6$ Gas-Blast AFC

$SF_6$아크의 절연회복특성 해석

  • 송기동 (한국전기연구원 신전력기기그룹) ;
  • 이병윤 (한국전기연구원 신전력기기그룹) ;
  • 박경엽 (한국전기연구원 신전력기기그룹 그룹장) ;
  • 박정후 (부산대학교 공대 전자전기통신공학부)
  • Published : 2002.06.01
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Abstract

In this paper, computer simulations of the physical Phenomena occurring in the arc region before and after current zero were carried out to evaluate the dielectric recovery characteristics of two types of double-flow nozzles. A commercial CFD Program "PHOENICS" is used for the simulation and the user-coded subroutines to consider the arcing phenomena were added to this program by the authors. The computed results were verified by the comparison with the test results presented by the research group of BBC. In order to investigate the state of the arc region after current zero, the simulation was carried out with four steps. They are cold gas flow analysis, steady state arc simulation, transient arc simulation before current zero, transient hot gas flow simulation after current zero. The semi-experimental arc radiation model is adapted to consider the radiation energy transport and Prandtl′s mixing length model is employed as the turbulence model. The electric field and the magnetic field were calculated with the same grid structure used for the simulation of the flow field. The streamer criterion was introduced to evaluate the dielectric recovery characteristics after current zero. Compared with the results obtained by assuming the current zero state in the former studies, it has been found that the results obtained by considering the state before current zerowere more accurate.

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