• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.73-75
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• 2004

Resistive leakage current following arresters is an important indicator of ageing, but total leakage current and its harmonic analysis are widely used in diagnosing arrester soundness because of difficulties in measuring resistive leakage current. In this paper, we proposed a new method for measuring resistive leakage current, which is quite different from the conventional methods such as a self-cancel method and a synchronous rectification method. The proposed method is based on that the magnitudes of resistive leakage currents are equal at the same voltage level. To confirm the possibility of the proposed method. we fabricated a leakage current measurement device and designed an analysis program that can analyze resistive leakage current. Comparing with other methods. this technique does not need a complex circuitry and is very simple to complete.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.1668-1670
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• 2003

This paper deals with a development of the high precise measuring device of resistive leakage current for the deterioration and diagnosis of ZnO arresters. The resistive leakage current increasing with time leads to a thermally unstable state that may even experience a disaster. So, the resistive leakage current can be used as an indicator to discriminate whether the ZnO arrester blocks is in good state or in bad. The resistive leakage current measuring system with an analysis program operated with micro-processor using the time delay addition method was designed and fabricated. The proposed measuring systems for the resistive leakage current can effectively be used to develop the techniques of forecasting the deterioration of ZnO arresters in electric power systems.⨀ᔌ?؀㔳㤮㈻Ԁ䭃䑎䷗ᜒं6〰Ԁ䭃䑎䴀

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11d
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• pp.1108-1110
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• 1999

This paper describes the comparison results on electrical characteristic changes of ZnO blocks by lightning impulse current. The five types of ZnO blocks used in lightning arrester for distribution lines have been estimated repeatedly till about 400 times by a standard lightning impulse current of 3kA, $8/20{\mu}s$, and changes of the performance characteristics of them to operation times were examined and compared quantitatively every fifty times discharge. It is expected that the result will be useful to diagnose the soundness of ZnO blocks or lightning arresters, and to develope deterioration diagnosis device for them.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.9
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• pp.1306-1313
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• 2012

This paper reports the contamination performance of two distribution arresters (new and used ones) tested under three different contaminant conditions - clean fog, ESDD (equivalent salt deposit density) level (A, B, C, and D), and kaolin contamination conditions, and their leakage current, total leakage current, and component of the resistive leakage current were measured in order to diagnose arrester deterioration. The 3rd harmonics was larger than 5th and 7th ones for the arrester under the clean fog, and as the ESDD contamination level was applied, 5th one became relatively larger than 3rd one. Therefore, these results indicated that the resistive leakage current could be used for the diagnosis of the arresters.

• KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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• v.5C no.3
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• pp.131-137
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• 2005

This paper describes a new approach to the algorithm and fundamental characteristics of the device for monitoring the leakage currents flowing through zinc oxide (ZnO) surge arresters. In order to obtain a technique for a new on-line monitoring device that can be used in the deterioration diagnosis of ZnO surge arresters, the new algorithm and on-line leakage current detection device for extracting the resistive and capacitive currents using the phase shift addition method were proposed. The computer-based on-line monitoring device can sense accurately the power frequency leakage currents flowing through ZnO surge arresters. The on-line leakage current monitoring device of ZnO surge arresters proposed in this work has the high sensitivity compared to the third harmonic leakage current detection devices. As a consequence, it was found that the proposed leakage current monitoring device would be useful for forecasting the defects and degradation of ZnO surge arresters.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.192-197
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• 2004

전국적인 분포를 갖고 있는 배전망에 유일한 과전압 보호 및 절연보호장치인 피뢰기는 배전계통에서의 사고율을 감소시키는 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 이러한 피뢰기의 수명은 동작횟수의 증가에 의해서 서서히 열화되게 된다. 이러한 열화의 과정은 피뢰기의 저항성 전류가 증가하는 현상과 일치한다. 그러나 배전계통에서 저항성 전류를 검출하기 위한 전압요소에 대한 정보를 얻기가 쉽지않다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 피뢰기의 열화현상을 파악하기 위하여 이론적으로 피뢰기의 열화정도가 고조파의 분석만으로 가능하다는 점을 증명하고 특히 3고조파의 증가와 저항성 전류의 증가가 비례함을 현장에서 수집한 피뢰기의 실증을 통해 입증하였다. 이러한 연구결과를 현장에 적용하여 현장의 가혹한 조건의 전자계영향에도 불구하고 정밀한 피뢰기 진단이 가능하다는 결론에 도달하였다. 결론적으로 본 연구의 결과로 현장의 피뢰기 진단이 간편해지고 효율적으로 이루어 질 수 있음을 실증하였고, 앞으로 배전계통에서의 안정적인 전력공급에 기여할 것으로 기대하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.367-370
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• 2001

This paper proposes a new deterioration diagnostic technique for power facilities by analyzing the pulse-height analysis of leakage current. Until now, various deterioration diagnostic techniques to prevent power system failures by deterioration of power facilities are suggested, and most of which measures leakage current amplitude only as a estimation parameter. In this experiment, it is known that the pulse heights of the leakage current are increased according to deterioration progress as well as there comes remarkable changes in pulse height distribution thereto. Therefore, the use of pulse height distribution in deterioration diagnostic technique makes more accurate diagnosis than the conventional method by using only leakage current value. From the application test, it is confirmed that the proposed technique has sufficient performance to diagnose deterioration of power facilities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.515-516
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• 2006

The resistive leakage current is an important parameter for arrester diagnosis. However, the 3rd harmonic leakage current is more widely used than the resistive one because of its easy measurement. In this paper, we studied the correlation between the resistive and the $3^{rd}$ harmonic leakage current of ZnO arresters. The resistive leakage current was measured according to the IEC 60099-5 in AC applied voltage. The $3^{rd}$ harmonic leakage current was analyzed by using a designed band-pass filter having 180 [Hz]-center frequency and 10 [Hz]-bandwidth. The experimental results show that the $3^{rd}$ harmonic leakage current changes proportionally with the resistive leakage current variation under the maximum continuous operating voltage (MCOV).