• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.43-50
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• 2002

To improve the current waveform of diode rectifiers, we propose a new operating principle for the voltage -doubler diode rectifiers. In the conventional voltage-doubler rectifier circuit, relatively large capacitors are used to boost the output voltage, while the proposed circuit uses smaller ones and a small reactor not to boost the output voltage but improve the input current waveform. A high input power factor of 97[%] and an efficiency of 98[%] are also obtained. The harmonic guide lines of proposed rectifier is no interfered with inverter switching, resulting in a simple, reliable and low-cost ac-to dc converters in comparison with the boost-type current-improving circuits.It compared conventional pulse-widthmodulated(PWM)inverter with half pulse-widthmodulated (HPWM) inverter. Proposed HPWM inverter eliminated dead-time by lowering switchingloss and holding over-shooting.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.33-38
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• 1997

Generally, various semiconductor switching devices for power systems are used in battery chargers for electric vehicle. When these used, it takes the problems of transient-current or distortion of waveforms in power systems near by battery chargers because of harmonics and large peak-current, low power factor, etc., caused by the non-linearity of these devices. Recently, power factor control, line current peak-cut, harmonics reduction which was ignored in past is more and more important. In this paper, to solve those problems we will improve the characteristics of voltage rising and propose the high power factor converter circuit for battery chargers. Our proposed system convert commutated voltage to AC resonant wave in high frequency inverter and rectify the link voltages passed high-frequency transformer and transfer the DC voltages. Especially, the effect using these converter system can be improved very large by power factor control and we have to verify the possibilities of improvement through the experiment of Pb-Acid battery application.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.186-191
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• 2004

전력계통에서 역률개선을 위해 사용하는 전력용 콘덴서(이하 SC bank)는 전력계통의 운전상 전압 제어와 역율개선이라는 두가지 측면에서 매우 중요한 전력설비이다. 또한 최근에 전력산업 구조조정에 의해 발전분야가 분할되는 시점에서 SC bank의 역할의 중요성이 강조되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 SC의 고장원인이 무엇인지를 현장조사를 통해 수행하였다. 그 결과 SC bank를 구성하고 있는 리액터, 콘덴서, PT, 혹은 CT 흑은 방전코일의 열화원인이 대부분 차단기의 투입서지와 차단서지에 의해 발생되고 있음을 확인하였다 또한 기존의 보호시스템은 SC Bank의 보호에 적합하지 않음을 검토하였다 차단기 서지에 대한 대책으로는 투입시 전압영점투입과 중성점 저항기의 취부로 투입서지 및 차단서지를 효과적으로 감소되는 현상을 모의와 현장실측을 통해 확인하였다. 또한 기존의 보호방식이 과전류와 과전압 부족전압 혹은 CT와 PT를 이용한 차동방식에 의해 셀의 경련변화를 감지하고 있으나 이 경우 보호맹점이 존재하게 됨을 검토하였다. 이러한 보호상의 문제점을 보완하는 방법으로 SC bank는 임피던스가 늘 일정하는 점에 착안하여 전압과 전류를 이용하여 임피던스의 변화량을 감시하고, 또 한가지 방법은 SC bank의 운전특성상 무효전력만을 발생시킨다는 점에 착안하여 만일 유효전력 성분이 SC bank에서 감지된다면 소자의 이상이나 비정상적은 전류경로가 된다는 결론에 도달하고 유효전력감시를 통한 SC bank의 열화감지가 가능하다는 결론에 도달하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 3가지의 방법, 즉, 첫째 영점투입차단기 채택, 둘째, 중성점 저항기의 도입, 셋째 새로운 보호방식에 의한 기존의 보호맹점의 보완을 제안하였다. 위의 새로운 제안을 현장에 적용하는 경우 제작사의 제작불량을 제외한 운전상의 SC bank의 문제점 및 고장빈도는 현저히 감소하게 될 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.2534-2539
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• 2015

Method for regulating voltage using a generator voltage regulating device (AVR) is divided in an existing analog system and a digital replacement. Typically, to adjust the voltage by using a brushless excitation system of the type to be reduced for a voltage change under all. The control method of the AVR as a PID (proportional-integral-differential) control method is widely used. However, the control scheme is to reduce the transient response of the control parameters of the controller to the control object. Therefore, if the control target should change, there is a problem, reset the parameters of the controller again. In this study, without having to reset the parameters of the controller for the parameter variations to be controlled iPID (intelligent PID) using a controller designed to obtain a generator AVR system voltage variation is small in response to full load is applied to and through simulations and experiments improved transient response.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.70-79
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• 2003

In this paper, T5 28-watt fluorescent lamp ballast using a piezoelectric transformer is fabricated and its characteristic is investigated. Developed electronic ballast is composed of basic circuits and blocks, such as rectifier part, active power factor corrector part, frequency oscillation part using microcontroller and feedback control, piezoelectric transformer and resonant half bridge inverters. The fabricated ballast uses to variable frequency methode in external so exciting that the frequency of piezoelectric transformer could be generated by voltage control oscillator using microcontroller(AT90S4433). The current of fluorescent lamp is detected by feedback control circuit. The signal of inverter output is received using Piezoelectric transformer, and then its output transmitted to fluorescent lamp. Traditional electromagnetic ballasts operated at 50-60Hz have been suffered from noticeable flicker, high loss, large crest factor and heavy weight. A new electronic ballast is operated at high frequency about 75kHz, and then Input power factor, distortion of total harmonic and lamp current crest factor are measured about 0.9!35, 12H and 1.5, respectively Accordingly, the traditional ballast is by fabricated electronic ballast using piezoelectric transformer and voltage control oscillator because of its lighter weight, high efficiency, economic merit and saving energy.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.358-369
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• 2000

Shielded metal arc welding machines with AC transformer have been widely used for thin-plate welding applications. Because of being bulky, heavy and of tap-changing property, so the SMAW's are changing to new power electronic circuits such as inverter circuit in order to reduce the system size and also to improve the welding performances at input output sides. The PWM inverter arc welding machine with diode rectifier has better output welding performances but it is has the plentiful harmonics and the lower input power factor. To solve these problems, input current-controlled scheme is considered for PWM inverter arc welding system, and then total input power factor is maintained to be more than 99%. Also a new combined control is proposed which can control both instantaeous welding output voltage and current under constant power condition, and as a result the variations of instantaneous current and voltage can be reduced to very narrow range in the V-I curve relationship, and hence the variance of welding current and voltage become so reduced. In addition the spatter generated during welding process is greatly reduced up to 70%. And the overall effiency can be improved up to 10%, which becomes higher when the load is lower.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.193-200
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• 2006

This paper suggests a 6-pulse-shift converter structure with PWM current-source inverter based on buck-boost configuration to improve the efficiency and to reduce the switching frequency of inverter for photovoltaic generation system, the device can be operated as interface system between solar module system and power system grid without energy storage cell. The circuit has six current-source buck-boost converter which operate chopper part and kas one full bridge inverter which make a decision the polarity of AC output. Therefore, the proposed PWM power inverter has advantages such as the reduction of witching loss and realization of unity power factor operation. The theoretical backgrounds are discussed and the input-output characteristics for the implemented prototype inverter using TMS320F2812 are verified experimentally in this paper.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.483-489
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• 2014

Proposed electronic ballast circuit for harmonic reduction includes adding lossless snubber circuit to DC-DC converter. To get inverter for changing DC-AC, a lamp has been changed to equivalence resistance in the standard lamp voltage and current data, also inverter circuit has been interpreted by being changed to R, L, C equivalence circuit. Using converted equivalent circuit, the most suitable circuit constant which can satisfy the characteristics of fluorescent lamps has been decided on and finally designed. It could not only eliminate distortion waveform from pulsation frequency in inverter direct side current but also reduce considerably pulsation rate and switching loss by making input current of inverter discontinuous. The validity for the results of this study has been verified through the experiment to measure harmonic occurrence after applying a newly-manufactured product of electronic ballast to 40 W line tube style fluorescent lamps.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.539-547
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• 2018

Grid-connected inverter is required to cut off the power supplied to the grid at the islanding condition, immediately. For this reason, an islanding detection is an indispensable function for grid-connected distributed generation system. Slip-Mode frequency Shift (SMS) islanding detection method is very popular method to determine the grid state. SMS method supplies the reactive power to the load according to the grid frequency. In the islanding condition of grid, this injected reactive power pulls out the grid frequency from the allowable range, then the inverter system can detect the islanding condition of the grid. The SMS method can detect the islanding state well and does not generate any harmonics of the grid current. However, the reactive power would be generated and the power quality is reduced even though the grid is not islanding condition, but normal condition. In this paper, a modified SMS method is proposed to remove the reactive power in the normal condition. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by 600W single phase inverter experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.52-59
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• 2010

The conventional CCFL (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp) inverter used in the backlight unit for LCD-TV, composed of the three power stage, can degrade the whole power conversion efficiency. In this paper, a novel scheme to drive the CCFL, composed only of the two power stage without using a dc/dc power stage, is proposed to enhance the whole power conversion efficiency. By adopting the proposed "4-in-1 Transformer", the current balance and the simultaneous ignition among the four CCFL lamp are assured with the one inverter circuit. The proposed scheme features the simple circuit structure, which can save the volume and the cost in the LCD backlight unit. Design considerations are discussed and design procedures are derived. Experimental results of the proposed scheme for 40" LCD-TV are presented to confirm the theoretical analysis.