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Insulation Characteristics for a Conduction-Cooled HTS SMES

  • Cheon H.G.;Baek S.M.;Seong K.C.;Kim H.J;Kim S.H.
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.39-43
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    • 2005
  • Toward the practical applications, on operation of conduction-cooled HTS SMES at temperatures well below 77 K should be investigated, in order to take advantage of a greater critical current density of HTS and considerably reduce the size and weight of the system. Recently, research and development concerning application of the conduction-cooled HTS SMES that is easily movement are actively progressing in Korea. Electrical insulation under cryogenic temperature is a key and an important element in the application of this apparatus. However, the behaviors of insulators for cryogenic conditions in air or vacuum are virtually unknown. Therefore, this work focuses on the breakdown and flashover phenomenology of dielectrics exposed in vacuum for temperatures ranging from room temperature to cryogenic temperature. Firstly, we summary the insulation factors of the magnet for HTS SMES. And a surface flashover as well as volume breakdown in air and vacuum has been investigated with two kind insulators. Finally, we will discuss applications for the HTS SMES including aging studies on model coils exposed in vacuum at cryogenic temperature.

A Indication Functional Inspection circuit development for Fluorescent ramp end of life (EOL) (형광램프 수명말기 표시기능 검측회로 개발)

  • Hong, Sa-Keun;Choi, Hong-Kyoo;Lee, Guen-Moo;Yoon, Cheol-Gu;Choi, Dae-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2008
  • The fluorescent lamp is one of a discharge lane that is used by electric discharge to transfer from electrical energy to light The fluorescent lamp needs a ballast stabilizer when turn it on because it has negative resistance. Characters of electric discharge and transformed characters of ballast stabilizer are connected closely. Therefore, bring out best design directive that consider economical efficiency and term of a application is very important for both characters matching. In this case, we will team to develop tester and functions for expression for recognizing the end of fluorescent lamp life to solve fire problem and losing efficiency of light when a fluorescent lamp goes the end of the expected its life span.

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Development of an Earth Leakage Breaker Operating by Resistive Leakage Current using a Resetable Integrator (적분기를 이용한 저항성 누전전류 작동방식 누전차단기 개발)

  • Ham, Seung-Jin;Hahn, Song-Yop;Koh, Chang-Seop
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.917-918
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    • 2007
  • The former earth leakage breaker is operating by total leakage current which is the vector-sum of resistive leakage current and capacitive leakage current. However, the electric disaster like the electric shock and fire is caused mainly by resistive leakage current. Therefore, the earth leakage breaker is ideal when it is operating by resistive leakage current. In this paper, the theory for finding the component of resistive leakage current from total leakage current is suggested and it is embodied to actual circuit. The resistive leakage current can be found by integrating the total leakage current during half cycle of line voltage. Thus, we can simply find resistive leakage current by using OP-AMP integrators, and we can confirm that the resistive leakage current is computed exactly from total leakage current obtained by resistive leakage current and capacitive leakage current. The results that the earth leakage breaker is operating within regular interrupt time are verified when the former earth leakage breaker's controller circuit is replaced by the proposed controller circuit.

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A study on CFRP based lightweight House deck structure design and configuration of Deck body connected IoT sensor data acquisition devices

  • Jaesang Cha;Chang-Jun Ahn;Quoc Cuong Nguyen;Yunsik Lim;Hyejeong Cho;Seung Youn Yang;Juphil Cho
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.250-260
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, we designed a IoT(Internet of Things) sensor block embedded lightweight house deck structures that can be implemented using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer(CFRP). Deck-Sensor interconnection interface block via IoT connectivity Hub that can mount external environmental sensors such as fire sensors on the Deck body itself was also proposed. Additionally we described the configuration of devices for data acquisition and analysis based on IoT environmental detection sensors that can be commonly installed and used on these deck bodies. On the other hand, received sensing data based monitoring user interface(UI) also developed and used for sensing data analysis for remote monitoring center. Through the implementation of such IoT-based sensor data transmission and collection analysis devices and UI software, this paper confirmed the availability of CFRP based lightweight House deck structure and possibility of CFRP deck-based IoT sensor data networking and analysis functions.

An Analytical Study on Composite Beam Performance with Post-Fire Temperature Using ANSYS Program (ANSYS를 이용한 화재 후 온도에 따른 합성보 성능에 관한 해석적 연구)

  • Kwak, Sung-Shin;Choi, Byong-Jeong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.391-400
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    • 2019
  • In the case of fire, a structure loses its original stiffness due to the temperature rise, and the load bearing capacity decreases. The loss of structural strength increases with increasing fire time of the structure. To prevent the collapse of buildings, it is very important to understand whether or not the members are damaged. On the other hand, there is insufficient data to be a guideline for diagnosing and evaluating the residual strength of the members in Korea. Therefore, this study examined the resistance performance by Finite-Element-Analysis of composite beams, which are composite structures among structural members. Composite beam modeling was carried out based on the model used in the Electrical Penetration Room (EPR) in cooperation with KEPCO. The heat transfer analysis and structural analysis of the critical phase were performed using ANSYS, a finite element analysis program. ANSYS was used to perform heat transfer analysis and structural analysis at the static analysis. To analyze the residual performance, the temperature distribution of the composite beam and the maximum displacement result of the heat-affected structure analysis were derived and the experimental data and the structural analysis result data were compared and analyzed.

A Study on the Characteristics of Organic Insulating Materials Carbonized by a Leakage Current (누설전류에 의하여 탄화된 유기절연재료의 특성에 대한연구)

  • Park, Sang-Taek;Roh, Young-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.161-167
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    • 2009
  • Organic insulating materials which are utilized as insulating materials for the low voltage show unique carbonization characteristics when they are carbonized by a leakage current. Therefore the use of the carbonization characteristics makes it possible to examine the electrical fire which is caused by a leakage current flowing on the surface of the organic insulating material. In order to understand such carbonization characteristics, in this paper, experiments have been done to carbonize typical organic insulating materials such as phenol resin, PVC, and acrylic resin, and the carbonization patterns and the IR absorption spectrum of specimens have been analyzed. According to the analysis of the carbonization patterns, the phenol resin shows the so-called 'spider-leg' carbonization pattern due to a thermosetting property. In contrast to the phenol resin, the thermoplastic property makes it difficult to observe a clear carbonization pattern to verify carbonizing causes on the surfaces of PVC and acrylic resins. In this case, the IR absorption spectrum can be analyzed to examine the specimen carbonized by a leakage current. The analysis result shows that absorption peaks appear at the wave numbers of $3,400[cm^{-1}]$ and $1,618[cm^{-1}]$, which can be an important factor to verify the carbonizing causes.

A New Type of Yagi-Uda Antenna for High Terahertz Output Power (고출력 테라헤르츠파 발생을 위한 새로운 구조의 Yagi-Uda 안테나)

  • Han, Kyung-Ho;Park, Yong-Bae;Kim, Sang-In;Park, Ik-Mo;Lim, Han-Jo;Han, Hae-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, a new type of Yagi-Uda antenna that operates in the terahertz frequencies is designed. The proposed Yagi-Uda antenna can obtain high input resistance of approximately $2000{\Omega}$ at the resonance frequency by using a full-wavelength dipole instead of a half-wavelength dipole as the driver element. The current leakage into the bias line was minimized by applying the photonic bandgap structure to the bias line. By designing the antenna on a thin substrate, the impedance lowering of an antenna caused by the relative dielectric constant of the substrate was prevented and the end-fire radiation pattern which is the original radiation characteristic of the Yagi-Uda antenna could be obtained. We expect that the proposed Yagi-Uda antenna can achieve increased terahertz output power by improving the impedance mismatching problem with the photomixer.

A Risk Assessment in According to Spot Measures and Analysis in Dust Generation Area (분진발생지역의 현장실측과 분석을 통한 위험성 평가)

  • Shong, Kil-Mok;Kim, Young-Seok;Kim, Chong-Min
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2008
  • In terms of electrical safety, environmental impact assessment and revision of domestic regulation are needed for the electric facilities. In this paper, risk of electric facilities is assessed by the spot measures and analysis in dust generation area. Adhesion dust in a surface of insulated materials cause electrical accidents. In a mechanism of these accidents, when the dust lie on electric facilities, a leakage current is flowed and the surface of insulated material is carbonized. Hereafter, electrical fire is generated due to Joule's heat. As the results, dusts are found in protection devices or panel board and sampled dusts vary in sampled amounts and conductivity severally. For the most part, sodium is detected but zinc and calcium are detected in case of reclaimed rubber factory by the ICP-AES(Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectroscopy). In a sewerage, the ingredients such as sodium, magnesium, iron, calcium, aluminium, etc are detected uniformly. So that, results of the spot measures and analysis of dusts are become the important data for the assessment of electrical hazard in dust generation area.

A Study on the Properties Analysis of an Iron Fittings Type CSST Damaged by the PCITS (PCITS에 의해 소손된 강이음쇠형 CSST의 특성 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jang-Woo;Choi, Chung-Seog
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.121-127
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    • 2016
  • This study analyzed the structural and electrical characteristics of an iron fittings type Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing (CSST) damaged by the Primary Current Injection Test System (PCITS). CSST consists of cladding, tube, nuts, clamp ring, flare cap, socket, and ball valve. For an evaluation of the dielectric withstand voltage, the area between the live part and non-live part of the CCST shall withstand a voltage of 220 V AC for one minute. For an evaluation of the insulation performance by 500 V DC, it is required that the insulation exceed more than $1M{\Omega}$ before the temperature rise test, $0.3M{\Omega}$ after the test. Although the average resistance of the product was $11.5m{\Omega}$, that of the product damaged at a current of 130 A by the PCITS was $11.50m{\Omega}$. Furthermore, parts of the cladding were melted and black smoke appeared when a current of 130 A applied for 10 s. After 60 s, most parts were heated and turned red. At 120 s, the parts that turned red had widened. Although it did not form a normal distribution because the P value was 0.019 with a confidential interval of 95%, it revealed outstanding characteristics with an AD (Anderson-Darling) value of 0.896 and a standard deviation of 0.5573.

Study of the Risk of Ignition due to Internal Combustion Engines in Areas with Potentially Explosive Gas Atmospheres (잠재적 폭발위험장소에서 내연기관에 의한 점화 위험성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yun Seok;Rie, Dong Ho
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2016
  • Safety management in hazardous areas with potentially explosive gas atmospheres (here in after referred to as hazardous areas) in large scale facilities dealing with combustible or flammable materials at home and abroad is very important (significant) for the coexistence of the company and local society based on business continuity management (BCM) and reliance. For the safety management in hazardous areas, two systems are mainly used: (1) the control system for the prevention of combustible or flammable substances and (2) the explosion proof system for the elimination of ignition sources when flammable gases are leaked to inhibit the transition to fire or explosion accidents. While technology and regulations on explosion proof facilities or devices for electrical ignition sources are well developed and defined, those for thermal ignition sources need to be more developed and established. In this study, the internal combustion engine in hazardous areas was investigated to determine the risk of ignition. For this purpose, document searches were conducted on the relevant international standards and accidents cases and risk analysis reports. In addition, this study assessed the application cases of the diesel engine's safety equipment, such as spark arresters regarding the site of process safety management (PSM) system in central Korea. To practically apply these results to the hydrocarbon industry, the safety management method for explosion prevention in hazardous areas was provided by risk identification for ignition sources of internal combustion engines, such as diesel engines.