• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.97-103
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• 2011

The most important object of grounding systems is to protect human being from electric shock. Touch and step voltages are measured to evaluate the performances of grounding systems. Dangerous voltages have been largely studied by the power frequency fault currents, on the other hand, the ground current containing the high frequency components and surge currents haven't been considered. Many attempts about the grounding impedances reported in these days show that the performance of the grounding systems in high frequency range is very different with the ground resistance. It is necessary to analyze the dangerous voltages formed by the ground currents containing high frequency components. In this paper, the ground surface potential rises near the vertical and horizontal grounding electrodes are measured at the frequency of 100[Hz], 30[kHz], and 100[kHz]. Dangerous voltages are investigated with the frequency-dependent grounding impedance. As a result, the ground surface potential rise is increased as the grounding impedance increases. Touch and step voltages near the grounding electrode whose impedance increases with the frequency are sharply raised.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.117-123
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• 2011

Lightning and switching surges propagating through the grounding conductors lead to transient overvoltages, and electronic circuits in information technology systems are very susceptible to damage or malfunction from the electrical surges. Surge damages or malfunctions of electrical and electronic equipment may be caused by potential rises. To solve these problems, it is very important to evaluate the ground surface potential rises and hazardous voltages such as touch and step voltages at or near the grounding systems energized by electrical surges. In this paper, the performance of grounding systems against the surge current containing high frequency components on the basis of the actual-sized tests is presented. The ground surface potential rises and hazardous voltages depending on impulse currents for vertical or horizontal grounding electrodes are measured and analyzed. Also the touch and step voltages caused by the impulse currents are investigated. As a result, the ground surface potential rises, the touch and step voltages near the grounding electrodes are raised and the conventional grounding impedances are increased as the front time of the injected impulse currents is getting faster.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.9
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• pp.1708-1714
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• 2011

AT feeding system of the electric railway system is installed every about 10km at between the feeder and catenary in parallel and the mid-point of the transformer is connected to the rail The supply voltage of this system is doubled than rolling stock voltage. So the voltage drop is smaller than usual. And the other merit of this system is the decreasing inductive disturbance to the communication line because of the reduced current in rail which runs reversed in a point of view of rolling stock. Also, ATP(Auto Transformer Post) is installed to reduce the voltage drop and to mitigate the inductive disturbance, but still now the proper distance between the ATP and AT feeding system is not established which ranges from 2 to 10[km]. The stable result of simulation(which is set that the end of the line AT is installed) to the voltage drop and inductive disturbance can not analyzes the effect to the supply system due to the ATP. This paper analyzes the effect to the system depending on the location of ATP by forecasting the voltage drop and inductive disturbance.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.353-355
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• 2007

피접지체의 접지는 전력설비의 절연파괴,낙뢰 등으로 전압이 침입할 경우 접지전극의 접지저항이 높으면 접지전극으로 유입되는 전류와 접지저항의 곱에 해당하는 접지전극의 전위가 상승하게 되므로 설비의 파손 인축의 피해 등이 발생 할 수 있다. 따라서 접지저항은 낮은 값으로 유지하는것이 필요하고 정기적으로 측정하여 관리하도록 규정하고 있다. 대표적인 접지저항측정방법으로는 3전극법(Fall of potential method)과 Hook-on 측정법이 있다. 그러나 3전극법은 측정하고자 하는 접지전극으로부터 일정한 거리에 전류를 흘려주고 이때 대지 전위를 측정 할 수 있는 2개의 보조전극 설치가 필수적이나 접지극과 접지선의 단자와는 설치 위치가 다르므로 접지전극의 설치점을 확인하기 곤란하고 건물내부, 지하철, 터널 등에는 보조전극의 설치가 거의 불가능하므로 처음 설치한 접지극의 접지저항측정관리에 어려움이 크다. 또한 Hook-on 측정법은 다중 접지 계통에 사용하는 방법으로 접지극이 수십 또는 수백개를 병렬로 연결한 경우 측정하고저 하는 접지그의 접지저항값에 비해 나머지 접지전극 전체의 합성저항이 무시할 수 있을 만큼 적은 경우에만 측정할 수 있으므로 건물이나 변전실 등 수개의 접지극이 설치된 경우는 사용할 수 없다. 본 연구는 보조전극을 설치하지 않고 측정하고자하는 접지전극 상호간의 전류분배 비율을 저항의 역수 비율로 하여 각각의 접지 전극의 접지저항값을 운전 중인 상태에서 간단하고 정확하게 측정할 수 있는 새로운 접지저항 측정 방법에 관한 연구이다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.250-255
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• 2011

This paper dealt with the design, fabrication and application of a risk voltage measurement system (RVMS) which analyzes the step and touch voltages in electrical grounding systems. The RVMS supply 300 V and 1.4 A in ranges from 40 Hz to 1 kHz as the test power source. A DAQ module having resolution of 400 kS/s and 16 bit is equipped with 7 inputs for measuring voltage and current. Also, a noise elimination algorithm of digital filter was applied to reduce the measurement error caused by external noises as a commercial frequency current. The performance of the RVMS was evaluated by measurement of the step and touch voltage according to the IEEE standard 80 and 81 in a grounding system with a 10 m counterpoise. The result showed that the RVMS analyzes the risk voltage with the error below 5%.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.2343-2348
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• 2014

Main ground net of power plant is formed to protect human body from increase in potential gradient caused by grounding current during ground fault. Calculations during ground design are generally performed according to IEEE Std-80-2000 (Kepco Design Standard 2602). However, it is difficult to apply this Standard to water environment, and a grounding technology is required to secure grounding resistance of floating photovoltaic system. Therefore the aim of this paper is to investigate and analyze ground resistivity on the water surface and underwater of reservoir using Wenner 4-pin method, a general method of measuring ground resistivity. Also, grounding resistance of floating photovoltaic systems currently in operation was measured and analyzed using the voltage drop method suggested in the international standard (IEEE Std-81) to propose a grounding method for stable grounding of floating photovoltaic system. The resistivity at 1m below the surface of water ($126.3969[{\Omega}{\cdot}m]$) is mostly higher than resistivity at the river bed ($97.5713[{\Omega}{\cdot}m]$). Also the proposed grounding anchor method was determined as the most effective method of securing stable grounding resistance in floating photovoltaic systems and is expected to be utilized as a ground method for future floating photovoltaic generation systems.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.91-97
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• 2015

Skyscrapers, large business buildings, and IT consumers use many appliances, and the electrical power stems can cause fires by overheating. This can result in damaged capacitors, lost data, rising ground potential, and communication obstacles from linear or nonlinear high frequency. To make sure of that we investigated 7 spots of a building, among which 6-spots were fair but the other one needed high frequency control. Spots 3, 6, and 7 needed diagnostic workup, and spots 2, 3, and 5 considered 5 high frequency currents. A phase is all of good but the high frequency current is greater than the standard level except for spot 1. As a result, a zigzag transformer or active filter needs to be installed, and the efficiency needs to be upgraded by investigating load unbalance factors and power factors.