• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2349-2351
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• 2003

Over the past $2{\sim}3$ years power utilities have shown a marked change in attitude by an ever increasing interest in using relay communication features. As yet there is no accepted international standard for communication protocol in automation systems. Recent work within the UCA work group has resulted in the proposal, UCA 2.0, as the informative interface for automation systems. This proposed standard embodies the generic principles developed and used within generic protocol. This paper describes and analyses various communication protocols for automation systems in electric power companies.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.238-246
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• 2002

Utilities are trying to install the equipment of high quality to avoid deterioration of supply reliability. In addition, many sectionalizing switches which can decrease the total outage value for a fault are installed for the same reason. Therefore, utilities are interested in stun dards and criteria for installing switches to optimize the total cost on distribution systems. The affect of sectionalizing switches installed on distribution feeder is gradually decreased because the failure rate on distribution feeder is decreased. Also the automation for distribution systems is widely applied for the efficient operation. Therefore, the renewal for installation standards of sectionalizing switches Is required to reflect the current operation situation. The variable data is used to consider the KEPCO's real situation of distribution feeder as follows; the feeder capacity, connecting rate, feeder length, failure rate of distribution feeder, the failure rate of switches, perception time of feeder fault, the restoration time for a faulted section, the transfer time to other feeders, and the switching time. In this study, We propose equations which can determine the number of sectionalizing switches for minimizing the outage and switch installation cost.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.497-502
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• 2010

발전회사는 설비 신뢰성과 이용율 저하없이 운영 및 정비비용을 낮추라는 요구를 받고 있다. 설비 운영자는 이러한 요구사항에 부합하기 위하여 현재의 정비기술에 대하여 다시 평가를 하고 있다. 정비비용을 낮추고 효율적인 운영 기간을 늘리기 위하여 설비의 최적 운영상태를 확인할 수 있는 비파괴기술을 이용하여 예측정비 기법을 적용할 수 있다. 예측정비 프로그램에는 내부운영 프로그램과 외부프로그램 그리고 혼용 프로그램이 있으며, 현명한 신뢰 (smart thrust)개념을 사용하면 예측정비 프로그램을 성공적으로 적용할 수 있다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.1276-1282
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• 2013

This paper proposes a stochastic modeling of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) distribution in power systems, and analyzes the corresponding clustering characteristic. It is essential for power utilities to estimate the PEV charging demand as the penetration level of PEV is expected to increase rapidly in the near future. Although the distribution of PEVs in power systems is the primary factor for estimating the PEV charging demand, the data currently available are statistics related to fuel-driven vehicles and to existing electric demands in power systems. In this paper, we calculate the number of households using electricity at individual ending buses of a power system based on the electric demands. Then, we estimate the number of PEVs per household using the probability density function of PEVs derived from the given statistics about fuel-driven vehicles. Finally, we present the clustering characteristic of the PEV distribution via case studies employing the test systems.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.1901-1902
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• 2006

In recent years, it has been a worldwide trend that many power utilities gave their attention to develop and operate their power plants, substation and distribution systems. Following this trend, KEPCO(Korea Electric Power Corporation) has developed many electric automation systems with various communication networks. It has been natural that the automation systems are just focused on to remote devices when they come to be designed. But, we have to shift the focus to the automation system itself. We have developed the Multi-service Optical Transmission System (M-OTS) for electrical power systems. It can be adopt to not only distribution power field but also the transmission power field. The result strongly shows that the system is potentially beneficial in reliability, speed, and expandability. This paper presents some of initial design efforts and results toward a KEPCO's communication system in distribution areas.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.55-57
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• 1998

Molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) power plant is expected to be one of the most promising future power generation system for the electric utilities because of its high efficiency, environmental suitability and capability of using coal as fuel. To get such attractive performance, it is necessary to consider optimizing operation and gas recycling system. This paper describes the simulation results of 7 kW MCFC stack in KEPRI and the effects of the three possible gas recycling operations, i.e. cathode gas recycling, anode gas recycling, anode gas recycling with catalytic burner.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.543-545
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• 1995

The purpose of this paper is to determine the proper reliability criteria used in generation expansion planning of electric utilities. In this paper, we tried to combine long-term generation expansion planning and short-term weekly maintenance scheduling program package. We set two scenarios in which the O&M technology of power plants will be improved or not in the future. We performed LOLP sensitivity analysis for each scenario to determine the optimum reliability criteria in the power system operation aspects.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.83-89
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• 2009

최근 국내 전력산업의 주변 환경, 즉 전기요금의 가격, 환경보호 및 에너지 문제 등으로 인해 전기사업을 보다 능동적으로 운영하기 위한 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 지금까지 대부분의 전력회사에서는 전력계통의 신뢰도에 중점을 두고 전력을 공급하였지만 모든 조건에 일률적으로 적용하는 것은 막대한 비용 상승을 동반하기 때문에 전력회사에서는 전력설비를 설치 또는 운영하는 것에 대해 보다 유연하게 대처하기 위하여 기기 투자비용에 대한 가치 및 이득을 검토하는 것이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 지중배전기기의 설치위치별로 국외 사례 및 국내 환경을 고려하여 그 효과를 분석하였으며, 본 연구결과는 향후 지중배전기기의 현장 적용 시 검토방안과 대책으로써 활용이 기대된다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.1633-1642
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• 2002

Uninterrupted power supply has become indispensable during the maintenance task of active electric power lines as a result of today's highly information-oriented society and increasing demand of electric utilities. The maintenance task has the risk of electric shock and the danger of falling from high place. Therefore it is necessary to realize an autonomous robot system using electro-hydraulic manipulator because hydraulic manipulators have the advantage of electric insulation. Meanwhile it is relatively difficult to realize autonomous assembly tasks particularly in the case of manipulating flexible objects such as electric lines. In this report, a discrete event control system is introduced for automatic assembly task of electric lines into sleeves as one of the typical task of active electric power lines. In the implementation of a discrete event control system, LVQNN (linear vector quantization neural network) is applied to the insertion task of electric lines to sleeves. In order to apply these proposed control system to the unknown environment, virtual learning data for LVQNN is generated by fuzzy inference. By the experimental results of two types of electric lines and sleeves, these proposed discrete event control and neural network learning algorithm are confirmed very effective to the insertion tasks of electric lines to sleeves as a typical task of active electric power maintenance tasks.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2003

Uninterrupted power supply has become indispensable during the maintenance task of active electric power lines as a result of today's highly information-oriented society and increasing demand of electric utilities. The maintenance task has the risk of electric shock and the danger of falling from high place. Therefore it is necessary to realize an autonomous robot system. In order to realize these tasks autonomously, the there dimensional position of target object such as electric line and the stand of insulator must be recognized accurately and rapidly. The insertion task of an electric line into a sleeve is selected as the typical task of the maintenance of active electric power distribution lines in this paper. A modified hough transform is applied to the recognition of the center of electric line and optimal target position calculation method is newly derived in order to recognize the center 3 dimensional position of the electric line. By the proposed method, it is proved that the center position of the electric line can be recognized without respect to the noise of image and the shape of electric lines and the insertion task of an electric tine is realized.