• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• v.5B no.4
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• pp.306-311
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• 2005

In this paper, the electromagnetic force acting in the arc column of 3 different extinction units is compared with using the FEM (Finite Element Method) and the arc velocity is calculated by the drag force of the fluid mechanics. The experiment for breaking the arc current was performed in each model at 100 volts in order to measure the arcing time. The outcome was compared with the computing value. As a result, this paper proposes that the divided U-shaped grid is able to shorten arcing time and improve the electric performance. It also suggests a methodology for comparing and analyzing the result obtained by simulation and experiment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.247-247
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• 2011

차단기의 주 임무는 사고전류를 차단하는 것이다. 진공 인터럽터는 진공차단기의 차단부로서 진공차단기의 핵심부이다. 사고전류 발생시 전극이 분리되면서 아크가 발생한다. VI의 아크소호 방식에는 크게 축자계 방식과 횡자계 방식이 있는데 본 논문은 횡자계 방식에 관한 것이다. 교류전류에서는 전류가 일시적으로 공급되지 않는 전류영전에서 아크소호가 가능하다. 전류영점에서 아크가 소호된 직후 극간저항은 거의 0에서부터 무한대까지 급격하게 변화하는데 이때 이 저항의 증가에 비례하여 과도회복전압이 발생한다. 하지만 잔류플라즈마의 소멸에는 일정시간이 소요되며 아크가 소호된 이후에도 종종 극간에 금속증기가 존재하게 된다. 잔류플라즈마는 전기전도도를 가지므로 극간에 과도회복전압이 걸리면 전류영점 직후에 아크를 통해 흘러 결국 아크의 재점호를 야기시키는 post arc current를 발생시킬 수 있다. 따라서 전류영점의 충분한 시간 이전에 아크를 확산아크로 전환시켜 극간에 존재하는 잔류 플라즈마 량을 최소화시켜야 한다. VI 내부의 아크거동에 미치는 인자에는 접점재료와 VI 용기내부의 진공도 이외에도 전극의 직경, 쉴드, 전극의 개극속도, 최종 극간거리 등이 있다. 본 연구에서는 나선형 VI 접점을 대상으로 두 접점 사이의 비틀림 각도에 따른 아크제어성능을 비교분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.67-68
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• 2001

We present the basic properties of a superconductive current limiting fuse (SCLF) based on YBCO/Au films. The SCLF consists of meander type YBCO stripes covered with an Au layer for current shunt. The fault current was first limited to a designed value in less than 0.4 msec by resistance development in YBCO/Au upon quenching. This enables the SCLF to transfer small fault power and the suppressed current was sustained for more than 0.5 msec while Au layer melting and arcing. The arcing time was less than 2.5 msec, that is short enough to do self-interruption.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.243-245
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• 2001

This paper presents a new classification method for high impedance faults in power systems. Results of phase plane trajectory with Clarke modal transformation using postfault current and voltage are utilized to classify types of arcing faults. The performance of the proposed method is tested on a typical 154 kV korean transmission system under various fault conditions using EMTP. As can be seen from results, phase plane trajectory of postfault current should be combined with that of o component from Clarke modal transformation to give reliability of clear fault classification. Thus the proposed method can classify arcing faults including LIFs and HIFs accurately in power systems.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.344-350
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• 1996

Tracking is one of the biggist problems to be overcome in polymeric materials for outdoor insulators. But It can be decreased with the addition of filler such as alumina trihydrate (ATH). In this paper, the tracking of surface and evaluation of insulating ability at silicone rubber is investigated, using the salt fog test. At initial state, the peak leakage current and numbers by dry band arcing is increasing with increasing the filler level, but at aged state decreasing at high concentration filler samples. This is because the roughness of the surface may contribute to the increase in peak leakage cur-rent and numbers. As increasing the filler level, the insulating ability of materials is higher and weight loss is decreased. The mechanism of insulating failure is occurred by the erosion than the tracking and the erosion caused weight loss of 2 g.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07e
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• pp.1642-1644
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• 1997

The simulation study of lightning faults reducing effects by the installation of surge arresters on the 154 kV transmission line is stated here. For the purpose of detailed simulation of arcing horn, a flashover model with dynamic characteristics of arcing horn gap was represented as a non-linear inductance which is controlled by EMTP/TACS(Electromagnetic Transient Program/fransient Analysis of Control Systems) switches. The back flashover inducing current was increased from 50 kA to 88 kA by the installation of surge arresters on the transmission line which has one ground wire and 20 ohms of tower footing resistances. The great advantage of surge arrester installation on one circuit of the double circuit transmission line is to prevent the simultaneous back flashover up to 190 kA.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.7
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• pp.1155-1161
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• 2017

This study examines environmental performance of the arcing measurement module according to international standards. The module assesses the collected current performance using a computer system. The module is required to assess environmental impact resulting from electromagnetic waves, shock and temperature change during train operation. The test includes testing EMI/EMC, vibration, shock and temperature cycling for interface between trains and the arcing measurement module. The module test items were determined in compliance with the standards suggested by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and Europaische Norm (EN). This study describes the method of test, test equipment operation and how to choose relevant performance standards. The analysis and test results of environmental performance for the module based on computer system are described in this study.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.318-320
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• 2004

We investigated the basic properties of a superconductive current limiting fuse (SCLF) based on YBCO/Au films. The SCLF consists of meander type YBCO stripes covered with an Au layer for current shunt. The fault current was first limited to a designed value in less than 0.4 msec by resistance development in YBCO/Au upon quenching. This enables the SCLF to transfer small fault power and the suppressed current was sustained for more than 0.5 msec while Au layer melting and arcing. The arcing time was less than 2.5 msec, that is short enough to do self-interruption.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.16-21
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• 1999

The analysis of distribution line faults is essential to the proper protections of the power system. A high impedance fault test, which was carried in Korean electric power systems, it was found that a arcing phenomenon occurred during the high level portion of conductor voltage in each cycle. In this paper, we propose a new method for detection of high impedance faults, which uses the arcing fault current difference during high voltage and low voltage portion of conductor voltage waveform. To extract this difference, we diveded one cycle fault current into equal spanned four data windows according to the magnitude of voltage waveform and applied fast fourier transform(FFT) to each data window. The frequency spectrum of current wavefrom in each portion are used as the inputs of neural network and is trained to detect high impedance faults. The proposed method shows improved accuracy when applied to staged fault data and fault-like load.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.673-677
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• 2004

We present the basic properties of a superconductive fuse (SF) based on YBCO/Au films. The SF consists of YBCO stripes covered with Au layers for current shunt. The fault current was limited to a designed value in less than 0.4 msec by resistance development in YBCO/Au upon quenching. This enabled the SF to transfer small fault power and the suppressed current was sustained for more than 0.5 msec while Au layer melting and arcing. The arcing time was less than 2.5 msec, that is short enough to do self-interruption. Under the source voltage of 100 $V_{rms}$, the longer the duration time of fault current was, the shorter its discharge time was. The duration time of fault current and its discharge time were reduced by increased voltages in the range of 200 - 300 $V_{rms}$. We thought that this was because the quench propagation was limited by local melting generated with higher voltage.age.