• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1090-1100
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• 2017

This paper presents the comparison of starting current characteristics of a three-phase induction motor fed by two types of soft starters. The first soft starter under investigation is a conventional AC voltage controller on the basis of a phase-control technique. The other is the proposed asynchronous PWM AC chopper which is developed from the conventional synchronous PWM AC chopper. In this paper, the proposed asynchronous PWM AC chopper control scheme is developed by generating only two asynchronous PWM signals for a three-phase main power circuit (6 switching devices) from a single voltage control signal which is compared with a single sawtooth carrier signal. By this approach, the PWM signals are independent and easy to implement since the PWM signals do not need to be synchronized with a three-phase voltage source. Details of both soft starters are discussed. The experimental and simulation results of the starting currents are shown. It is found that the asynchronous PWM AC chopper efficiently works as a suitable soft starter for the three-phase induction motor due to that the starting currents are reduced and are sinusoidal with less harmonic contents, when being compared with the starting current waveforms using the conventional phase-control starting technique. Also the proposed soft starter offers low starting electromagnetic torque pulsation.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.463-467
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• 2003

This paper describes an AC voltage regulator using AC chopper and auxiliary transformer which is series connected with main input. It has many advantages such as fast voltage control, high efficiency and low THD. A detail study of step down AC voltage regulator is described and two kinds of novel step-up/down voltage regulator for AVR application are proposed. The operation principle and PWM method of the proposed regulator are described. Experimental results show that it can be used as AC voltage regulator for special purpose very efficiently.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.22-29
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• 2015

The AC-LED driving system which is connected directly to alternative current source is suitable for commercialization because of it's simple structure and low cost. However, it requires additional circuits compensating for current differences between the parallel connected LED strings. In this paper, we proposed the circuit compensating for current error of the three LED strings using the Y type balancing transformer. The proposed Half-bridge AC Chopper LED driving system used the ferrite material's balancing transformer. at the same time, it is able to dimming control. The proposed system is applied to 80W AC-LED module consist of three parallel strings. Experiment results present that Power factor and THD measured with power analyzer are 0.958 and 26.473% respectively satisfied with IEC61000-3-2 harmonics standard.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.43-46
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• 1975

In a chopper amplifier the input signal of the AC amplifier is a train of square-waves. In the rase of square-wave the operatiom of AC amplifier is much different from that of ordinary sinusoidal wave. In this paper for the purpose of contributing to the design of chopper amplifier destortions of waveforms in the amplifier were investigated. When the time constant of each stage is equal the waveform in each stave apppears as square wave whose top is exponentially decaying. And when each stave has different time constant the waveform in n-th stage is composed of n-square waves whose tops are exponentially decaying.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.488-489
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• 2008

Based on the fact that renewable energies such as photovoltaic, wind power, etc. are increasingly used in distribution systems recently which affects overvoltage, this paper implements an unified power flow controller(UPFC) to compensate voltage swell. The implemented scheme employs an ac chopper and a low-pass filter along with a series transformer. The ac chopper converts the amplitude of the voltage down to the nominal value. The low pass filter makes the rough waveform of the output voltage of the ac chopper due to switching smoothly by eliminating harmonics. To verify the effectiveness of the implemented UPFC, the results by Electro-Magnetic Transients Program(EMTP) are presented for various overvoltage cases.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.164-165
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• 2012

This paper proposes an AC Chopper based DC power supply for specific DC voltage ranges. AC chopper is attached to the input side of PFC to generate specific ranges of DC voltage which are not available with PFC itself alone. The input power factor of the proposed DC power supply is proportional to that of PFC. Performance of the proposed power supply was verified by carrying out simulations.

• 전기의세계
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.28-31
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• 1976

Thyristor는 많은 전력기기와 결합되어 전기기기 전반의 양상을 크게 변화시키고 있다. 예를 들면 변압기의 불꽃없는 탭이나 회전기의 정류자에 대치되는 무정류자전동기와 그리고 개폐기, 차단기의 대용등을 생각할 수 있다. 전력변환장치로서는 (1)직류전력을 조정하는 목적으로 Thyristor를 일종의 스위치로써 직류전압을 단속시켜 직류평균전력을 제어하는 DC Chopper (2)교류전원에 두개의 Thyristor를 역병렬접속하여 교류전류의 통전기간을 위상제어에 의하여 교류를 제어하는 AC Chopper (3)직류를 교류로 변환하는 자여식 inverter등이 있다. 본 해설에서는 지면관계상 D.C Chopper방식에 대한 기본회로와 그의 이용만을 취급한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.106-109
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• 2003

This paper describes an AC voltage regulator using AC chopper and auxiliary transformer which is series connected with main input. It has many advantages such as fast voltage control, high efficiency and low THD. A detail study of step down AC voltage regulator is described and two kinds of novel step-up/down voltage regulator for AVR are proposed. The operation principle and PWM method of the proposed regulator are described. Experimental results show that it can be used as AC voltage regulator for special purpose very efficiently.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1989.07a
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• pp.535-539
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• 1989

A high-frequency asymmetrical PWM control technique is proposed which can improve the input power factor of ac chopper and also suppress its harmonic contents of currents at both its input and load sides and the acoustic noises by its switching semiconductor devices. The ideal switching function for the proposed technique is derived and hence converted into asymmetrical PWM pattern for practical implementation of ac voltage regulator. Also the various power circuits of three phase AC choppers are suggested. The theoretical characteristics of the proposed PWM technique are investigated by digital simulation.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.54 no.12
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• pp.609-615
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• 2005

A 30kW electrical power conversion system is developed for a variable speed wind turbine. In the wind energy conversion system(WECS) a synchronous generator with field current excitation converts the mechanical energy into electrical energy. As the voltage and the frequency of the generator output vary according to the wind speed, a 6-bridge diode rectifier and a PWM boost chopper is utilized as an ac-dc converter maintaining the constant dc-link voltage with only single switch control. An input current control algorithm for maximum power generation during the variable speed operation is proposed without any usage of speed sensor. Grid connection type PWM inverter converts dc input power to ac output currents into the grid. The active power to the grid is controlled by q-axis current and the reactive power is controlled by d-axis current with appropriate decoupling. The phase angle of utility voltage is detected using software PLL(Phased Locked Loop) in d-q synchronous reference frame. Experimental results from the test of 30kW prototype wind turbine system show that the generator power can be controlled effectively during the variable speed operation without any speed sensor.