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Numerical Analysis on Flow Characteristics in the Pressurized Air Supply Smoke Control System (급기가압 제연설비의 내부 유동특성에 대한 수치해석)

  • Ko, Gwon-Hyun
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.52-58
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    • 2017
  • This study investigated the pressure difference distribution and the flow characteristics among room, ancillary room, and stair case by carrying out the numerical simulations on the air flow inside the pressurized air supply smoke control system. Numerical simulations were conducted to analyze pressure and velocity distribution of compartments by pressurized air supply for the air-leakage test facility which was built to measure the effective leakage area. In this study, the leakage of air was considered by locating the narrow slit onto fire door and window of room. Simulated results using this method precisely followed the previous experimental results for the pressure differences between the stair case and ancillary room. Predicted results showed that the local leakage of air rarely affected the overall flow pattern and pressure distribution. Although the average velocity over the door between room and ancillary room satisfied the regulation for fire safety, it was certified the unsafe outflow to ancillary room could be occurred in the local position such as the upper part of the door.

Evaluation of Acceleration Effect of Ancillary Services on Cavitation and Fatigue of a Water Turbine in Pumped-Storage Plants (부수적 서비스 제공에 따른 양수발전소 수차의 캐비테이션 및 피로에 대한 가속효과 평가)

  • Kim, Jong Sung;Kim, Se Na
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.225-232
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    • 2017
  • Several maintenance issues related to cavitation erosion and fatigue cracks in the water turbine subcomponents of pumped-storage plants, such as a runner and a draft tube, have been reported in the past. Generally, the pumped-storage plants provide ancillary services, such as black-start and system stabilization. The ancillary services are responsible for cyclic low opening operation of the guide vanes. It has been empirically established that this low opening operation further damages the water turbine subcomponents. In this study, the acceleration effect of the low opening operation on the cavitation erosion and fatigue of the water turbine is quantitatively assessed through finite element flow analysis, finite element stress analysis, and fatigue analysis. As a result of the assessment, it is identified that the cavitation potential increases and the turbine efficiency decreases with a decrease in the opening of the guide vane. Also, the low opening operation has an insignificant effect on the fatigue even though it increases the maximum stress values at the runner blade roots.

Optimal Scheduling of Utility Electric Vehicle Fleet Offering Ancillary Services

  • Janjic, Aleksandar;Velimirovic, Lazar Zoran
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.273-282
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    • 2015
  • Vehicle-to-grid presents a mechanism to meet the key requirements of an electric power system, using electric vehicles (EVs) when they are parked. The most economic ancillary service is that of frequency regulation, which imposes some constraints regarding the period and duration of time the vehicles have to be connected to the grid. The majority of research explores the profitability of the aggregator, while the perspective of the EV fleet owner, in terms of their need for usage of their fleet, remains neglected. In this paper, the optimal allocation of available vehicles on a day-ahead basis using queuing theory and fuzzy multi-criteria methodology has been determined. The proposed methodology is illustrated on the daily scheduling of EVs in an electricity distribution company.

Bidding Strategics in Competitive Electricity Market (경쟁시장에서 입찰전략 수립에 관한 연구)

  • Ko, Young-Jun;Lee, Hyo-Sang;Shin, Dong-Jun;Kim, Jin-O
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2001.07a
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    • pp.550-552
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    • 2001
  • The vertically integrated power industry was divided into six generation companies and one market operator, where electricity trading was launched at power exchange. In this environment, the profits of each generation companies are guaranteed according to utilization of their own generation equipments. Especially, the electricity demand shows seasonal and weekly regular pattern, which the some capacity should be provided into ancillary service based on the past demand forecasting error and operating results of electricity market. Namely, if generation cost function is applied to SMP and BLMP as announced the previous day, the available generation capacity of the following day could be optimally distributed, and therefore contract capacity of ancillary service applied to CBP(Cost Based Pool) and TWBP(Two-Way Bidding Pool) is determined. Consequently, it is Possible to use the retained equipments optimally. This paper represents on efficient bidding strategies for generation equipments through the calculation of the contract and the application of each generator cost function based on the past demand forecasting error and market operating data.

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Development of Optimal Power Flow for the Ancillary Service of Reactive Power Generation under Restructuring Environment (전력산업 구조개편 환경 하에서 무효전력 보조서비스 운용을 위한 최적조류계산법 개발)

  • Lee, Seung-Ryeol;Lee, Byeong-Jun;Song, Tae-Yong;Jeong, Min-Hwa;Mun, Yeong-Hwan
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2002
  • This Paper suggests reasonable pricing mathod fur Reactive Power in Optimal Power Flow for the system analysis. Under restructuring, not only real power pricing but also reactive power pricing is important for the system analysis and operation. If people just focus on real power pricing, the Generators may no generate reactive power voluntarily, because the Generators may not recover the cost of the reactive power generation. So making a reasonable reactive power pricing is becoming more important than any other time. In this paper, the authors set a Proper Power factor and price the portion of the reactive power that exceeds the power factor using Interior Point Method. By applying this method, the System operator can use this strategy for the analysis of reactive power generation pricing and the Generator can get the motivation to generate reactive power. The author develops fully optimized fast Primal Dual Interior Point Method with sparsity technique and applies this method to Reliability Test System (RTS24) and KEPCO 674 bus system (684 buses. 1279 lines). It shows adaptability and usefulness.

Analysis of Adjacent Channel Interference for WCDMA ATC Service Frequency Allocation Operating in MSS Band (MSS 대역 WCDMA ATC 서비스 주파수 할당을 위한 인접 채널 간섭 분석)

  • Kang, Young-Heung;Jeong, Nam-Ho;Oh, Dae-Sub
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.23 no.11
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    • pp.1288-1296
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    • 2012
  • A candidate hybrid satellite and terrestrial network architecture, MSS/ATC(Mobile Satellite Service/Ancillary Terrestrial Component), is proposed for utilizing efficiently the exist MSS bands. Studies on the adjacent channel interference from the existing terrestrial mobile services and MSS/ATC itself are important to allocate a new ATC service frequency in MSS band. In this paper, we have analyzed the minimum permission power of terrestrial base station and the capacity loss with parameters of ACIR, number of MS(mobile Station) and MES(Mobile Earth Station) in uplink, and also, the capacity performance based on 1 beam and 1 cell assumption for MSS/ATC in downlink. The ACIR requirements are estimated in two MSS/ATC frequency allocation scenarios for 5 MHz and 10 MHz guard band to share spectrum with adjacent systems, and according to these ACIR requirements the service coverage and the receiver filter for ATC system should be designed in near future.

Evaluation of Generator's Reactive Power in Deregulated Electricity Market (전력시장 체제에서 발전기 무효전력 출력의 가치 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Na, Chun-Su;Park, Jong-Keun;Han, Tae-Kyung;Kim, Mun-Kyeom;Kim, Do-Han;Lee, Sang-Ho;Lee, Sang-Sung
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.869-871
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    • 2005
  • As deregulated electricity markets are being implemented in different countries, the remuneration of reactive power which contribute to ancillary services is one of the key issues, so it is necessary to evaluate the generator's reactive. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of reactive power which contributes to reactive power balance. The idea is that the main usages of the reactive power of generator can be divided into two components. First one is physically required amounts for transmitting the real power and the second one is the amounts contributed to support the system, that is, to maintain the voltage profiles. In this paper, the second component is used to evaluate the effective amounts of the reactive power contributed to ancillary service.

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The National Forest Inventory of the United States of America

  • McRoberts, Ronald E.
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.127-135
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    • 2008
  • The mission of the Forest Inventory and Analyis (FIA) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is to conduct the national forest inventory of the United States of America for purposes of estimating the area of forest land; the volume, growth, and removal of forest resources; and the health of the forest. Users of FIA data, estimates, and related products include land managers, policy and decision-makers, forest industry, environmental organizations, and university researchers. To accomplish its mission, the FIA program has established a sampling design with an intensity of approximately one permanent plot per 2,400 ha across the entire country. Depending on the region of the country, each plot is remeasured at intervals of five or 10 years. The program releases data annually and reports estimates at the county level for each state every five years. Due to budgetary constraints and natural variability among plot observations, sufficient numbers of plots cannot be measured to satisfy precision guidelines for the estimates of many variables unless the estimation process is enhanced using ancillary data. Classified satellite imagery has been demonstrated to be a source of ancillary data that can be used with stratified estimation techniques to increase the precision of estimates with little corresponding increase in costs. A crucial factor restricting the utility of FIA data is that the exact locations of inventory plots cannot be released to the public. Thus, users are generally not able to obtain estimates for small areas or for their own areas of interest if exact plot locations are required. To compensate, satellite imagery, inventory plot data, and the k-Nearest Neighbors technique are being used to construct Internet-based maps of forest attributes from which estimates for arbitrary user-defined areas of interest may be obtained.

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Caption Data Transmission Method for HDTV Picture Quality Improvement (DTV 화질향상을 위한 자막데이터 전송방법)

  • Han, Chan-Ho
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.1628-1636
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    • 2017
  • Such as closed caption, ancillary data, electronic program guide(EPG), data broadcasting, and etc, increased data for service convenience cause to degrade video quality of high definition contents. This article propose a method to transfer the closed caption data of video contents without video quality degradation. Video quality degradation does not cause in video compression by the block image insertion of caption data in DTV essential hidden area. Additionally the proposed methods have advantage to synchronize video, audio, and caption from preinserted script without time delay.

Proposing a New Method for Calculating Reactive Power Service Charges using the Reactive Power Market

  • Ro, Kyoung-Soo;Park, Sung-Jin
    • KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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    • v.4A no.4
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    • pp.262-267
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    • 2004
  • With the advent of electric power systems moving from a vertically integrated structure to a deregulated environment, calculating reactive power service charges has become a new and challenging theme for market operators. This paper examines various methods for reactive power management adopted throughout various deregulated foreign and domestic markets and then proposes an innovative method to calculate reactive power service charges using a reactive power market in a wholesale electricity market. The reactive power market is operated based on bids from the generating sources and it settles on uniform prices by running the reactive OPF programs of the day-ahead electricity market. The proposed method takes into account recovering not only the costs of installed capacity but also the lost opportunity costs incurred by reducing active power output to increase reactive power production. Based on the result of the reactive OPF program, the generators that produce reactive power within the obligatory range do not make payments whereas the generators producing reactive power beyond the obligatory range receive compensation by the price determined in the market. A numerical sample study is carried out to illustrate the processes and appropriateness of the proposed method.