• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.05b
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• pp.216-221
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• 2000

This paper describes the analysis results on the PT ferroresonance at 154 kV GIS (gas Insulated substation by EMTP(Electro- magnetic Transient Program). We had simulated the PT ferroresonance between a potential transformer(PT) and an open circuit breaker's grading capacitance. The ferroresonance leads to very large power frequency overvoltages on PT bus and subsequent insulation failure. The large power can be supplied to the PT by the high voltage on the opened circuit due to the grading capacitance and equivalent capacitance of the buses during the ferroresonance. The damping circuit connected on the secondary winding were considered in the model. The actual countermeasure include a saturable inductor and a resistor series-mounted, but the 2 ohms of damping resistance was used in the computationl model.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.1961-1965
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• 2003

The flow analysis is needed to verify the physical phenomena through interruption processes for improving the capacity and the reliability of gas circuit breakers. Moreover the small current interruption performance of GCBs could be predicted by coupling the flow characteristics with the electric field one. In this paper, the unsteady flow characteristics and the traveling trajectory are depicted with a commercial CFD code, PHOENICS, programmed for moving motion of objects. In order to validate computational results, the measured pressure data in cylinder and in front of arcing contact are compared with the test results of small current interruption.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.49-54
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• 2015

Molded Circucit Breaker(MCCB) is a most widely used device to protect loads from the over-current in low power level distribution system. When the MCCB interrupts the over-current, the arc discharge occurred between fixed contact and moving contact to create hot gas. By the Lorentz force due to arc current, the occurred arc is bent to the grids. The grids extend and cool and divide it for arc extinguish. In the majority cases, the MCCB protects loads by interrupting the over-current successfully but in some cases the re-ignition is occurred by hot-gas created during process of interruption. The re-ignition arises when the recovery voltage(RV) is more higher than the recovery strength between contacts and it leads to interruption fault. Therefore to find out the dielectric recovery characteristics of protecting device has a great importance for preventing interruption fault. In this paper, we studies measurement method of the dielectric recovery characteristics considering inherent attribute of the MCCB. To measure the dielectric recovery characteristic of MCCB, we makes an experiment circuit for applying the over-current and the randomly recovery voltage. The measurement methode to find out the dielectric recovery voltage of the MCCB was established and the result was based on experiment results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.808-810
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• 2002

Higher current-rating and improved thermal performance are being sought for existing medium-voltage vacuum circuit breakers(VCB) in order to meet market needs which require to be compact and downsized. In this paper, thermal performance of medium voltage vacuum circuit breaker was investigated through experiments and numerical analysis. We changed several major parameters of current-rating and heat sink affecting on thermal behaviors in the breaker and observed the results. To predict the temperature distribution in complex three-dimensional (3-D) VCB components and gas, the commercial package was used to simulate conjugate heat transfer. Although some assumptions and simplifications were introduced to simulate the model, results from the computational model were in good agreement with actual temperature rise measurements obtained from experiments.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.519-520
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• 2011

In Gas Insulated Substation(GIS), Very Fast Transient Overvoltages(VFTOs) are generated by the switching operation of disconnector or circuit breaker and it is propagated to each component of GIS. Each component of GIS is modeled by lumped line model and distributed line model based on equivalent circuits. The various cases which can be operated and the various closing point-on-wave are considered. In this paper, magnitude and rate-of-rise of VFTO are simulated and analyzed by comparing the simulation results. Measurements are performed at transformer and circuit breaker.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.425-427
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to find the cause of the damage to the GCB(Gas Circuit Breaker), since the GCB of the 154kV power plant at the Hap-Cheon Dam has already been damaged twice. We researched the characteristics of this class of circuit breaker and the possible causes for this type of damage to the GCB using the FTA(Fault Tree Analysis) Method. We studied the optimal maintenance method of the GCB, the stability analysis and power serge protection of Hap-Cheon Dam, and the power serge and fault list of the power transmission line to help prevent a reoccurrence of the problem.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07e
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• pp.1837-1839
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• 1997

This study presents the energy transfer of thermal arc in the circuit breaker with self-generation flow without puffer action. The phenomenon of pressure increase in the cylinder which encloses fixed contact was focused on and rising current stage was considered. Temperature and velocity of arc plasma were calculated by using energy balance equation and the amount of energy transfer due to convective flow was calculated.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07a
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• pp.94-96
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• 1997

A mathematical model (hybrid arc model) for arc behaviour in an $SF_6$ puffer gas-blast circuit-breaker has been developed. It has adopted the advantages of integral method and differential method. The method has been applied to model puffer circuit breaker of Noeske et al and good agreement of critical RRRV(Ratio of Rise of Recovery Voltage) has been obtained. Axial or radial distributions of temperature, electric field and arc radius are also presented and analyzed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07b
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• pp.1385-1387
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• 1994

For the development of the 25.8kV outdoor GCB (Gas - Circuit - Breaker), which have a surge surpression performance in closing & opening of circuit and a high reliability performance, we have developed the 25.8kV gas bushing first of all in KOREA. After manufacturing of 25.8kV/2000A gas bushing, we carried out the dimension & visual test and electrical & mechanical test and we have got the favorable test-results. And it was put together real outdoor GCB, and then we carried out type test at KERI and have confirmed the performance of this bushing.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.53 no.9
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• pp.538-544
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• 2004

This paper presents the interruption capability of serial-hybrid type GCB (gas circuit breaker) compared with that of puffer type. First a puffer type model interrupter which has the stroke length of 80 mm has been designed and manufactured. And also, a serial-hybrid type interrupter which has the same design parameters as the puffer type interrupter except the serially arranged thermal-expansion chamber and puffer cylinder has been fabricated. Using a simplified synthetic test facility, the critical interruption capabilities of the two GCBs have been estimated. The critical di/dt, the critical dV/dt of ITRV (initial transient recovery voltage) and the minimum arcing time of the puffer type model GCB were 10.7 A/${\mu}\textrm{s}$, 5.5 kV/${\mu}\textrm{s}$, and 15.0 ms respectively. In the case of serial-hybrid type model GCB, each of the values was 16.6A/${\mu}\textrm{s}$, 11.5 kV/${\mu}\textrm{s}$ and 13.0 ms. As a conclusion of this work, it has been quantitatively confirmed that the hybrid type interrupter can obtain the sufficient interruption capability at the operating force which is so low that puffer type interrupter has not the interruption capability.