• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.5
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• pp.999-1004
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• 2011

Nowadays, it is becoming difficult to secure a transmission line route when a new transmission line is constructed due to social environment and resident complaints. As existing urban areas are expanded and new cities are constructed, the necessity of high-capacity underground power transmission has been increasing because of load concentration in downtown areas. In North America, Europe and Japan, the research has been carried out for 2nd generation gas insulated transmission lines(GIL) which is more environmentally friendly and economical compared to previous GILs. The new GILs have been applied to real power systems from early 2000s. In South Korea, GIL is being considered as a possible solution for replacing 345kV high-capacity overhead transmission lines with underground transmission ones, so KEPCO is planning to develop and apply a new 362kV rated GIL underground transmission lines instead of overhead transmission lines. In this paper, the overvoltage generated at the combined transmission line adapting GIL was reviewed using EMTP.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.631-636
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• 2010

Gas-insulated transmission lines (GITL) are valued as technological solutions in hydro-power stations due to their enormous power handling capabilities. The performance of GITL is a function of the size of metallic particles inside the gas-insulated chamber. Electrostatic field (E-field) enhancement is a common phenomenon in gas-insulated lines due to these metallic particles. In this study, the E-field enhancement factor is calculated by considering metallic particles at various locations in the gas-insulated line/bus section, such as high-tension (HT) conductor, high-voltage shields, support insulator, and inner surface of grounded enclosure. For this purpose, a two-dimensional model based on finite element (FE) method is developed. The length of the metallic particle is in the range of 1 to 10 mm while the diameter is between 1 to 3 mm. E-field enhancement is also computed for various particle configurations of the gas-insulated system, with focus on dielectric coating made of epoxy on HT conductor and inner surface of grounded enclosure.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.805-810
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• 2011

This paper deals with the method and algorithm used to find fault locations in gas insulated transmission line. The method uses UHF sensors and digital oscilloscope to detect discharge signals emitted to the outside through insulating spacer in the event of breakdown inside GIL. UHF sensors are the external type and installed at outside of insulating spacers of GIL. And we used wavelet signal processing to analyze the discharge signals and confirm the exact fault location findings in the GIL test line. This method can overcome demerit of TDR(Time Domain Reflectometer) method having been applied to detect fault location for conventional underground transmission lines, and Ground Fault Sensors used in conventional GIS systems. TDR method requires high level of specialty and experience in analyzing the measured signals. Ground fault sensors are installed inside GIL and can be destroyed by high transient voltage. This paper's method can simplify the fault location process and minimize the damage of sensors. In addition, this method can estimate the fault location only by the time difference when discharge signals are arrived to detecting sensors at the ends of GIL sections without reasons of breakdown. To test the performance of our method, we installed sensors at the ends of test line of GIL(84m) and sensed discharge signals occurred in GIL, energized with AC voltage generator up to 700kV.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.99-101
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• 2006

As the same concept with GIB, GIL(Gas Insulated Line) has been established and run for the first time in New Jersey, America, in 1972. At the beginning, the installation condition of GIL was complicated and the construction cost was excessive, so it was not economical, but the construction cost was substantially reduced with the use of insulation material which is the mixture of $SF_6$ and $N_2$ Gas in Germany, in 1990s. And also comparing to cable, GIL has lots of advantages, such as being capable of the high voltage transmission, being applied to reclosing and lowering the strength of electromagnetic force, Due to these advantages, GIL is recently accepted in many countries.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.371_372
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• 2009

This paper describes surge characteristics on 345kV combined transmission system mixed overhead line and GIL(Gas Insulated Transmission Line). Then, it is compared with the results of the system mixed overhead line and XLPE power cables. Finally the lightning overvoltages are also discussed according to surge arrester installation in two kinds of combined transmission systems when the lighting strikes on the phase conductor.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07e
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• pp.2120-2122
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• 1999

$SF_6$ gas has been widely used the gas insulated transmission line, gas insulated transformer and gas insulated substation and Polyester film used as the turn insulation with other material. $SF_6$ gas has been actively studied in domestic and foreign countries. In general, when dielectric surface electric field exceed any electric field strength on air, corona discharge is occurred from the dielectric surface. This paper presents the insulation strength of turn insulation of $SF_6$-PET film studied under application of AC voltage, constitute of the plane to plane with PET Film. The results obtained in experimental are summarized that Partial Discharge Initial Voltage(PDIV) of turn insulation depend on gas pressure, but Breakdown Voltage(BDV) did not depend on gas pressure.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.5
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• pp.1062-1067
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• 2011

As the expension of metropolis and increasing of housing site, GIL(Gas Insulated Line) comes to the fore as an alternative to overhead transmission line avoided by local resident. The certification and experimental test for the GIL is now in progress in under ground test lab, Go-chang. For the test, we propose a method of PQ(pre-qualification) test which is essential for development and field application in this paper. The test following this method take about 200 days or 300 days under the circumstances.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.192-199
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• 2016

With changes in insulated defects, the environment, and so on, new partial discharge (PD) data are highly different from the original samples. It leads to a decrease in on-line recognition rate. The UHF signal and pulse current signal of four kinds of typical artificial defect models in gas insulated switchgear (GIS) are obtained simultaneously by experiment. The relationship map of ultra-high frequency (UHF) cumulative energy and its corresponding apparent discharge of four kinds of typical artificial defect models are plotted. UHF cumulative energy and its corresponding apparent discharge are used as inputs. The support vector machine (SVM) incremental method is constructed. Examples show that the PD SVM incremental method based on simulated annealing (SA) effectively speeds up the data update rate and improves the adaptability of the classifier compared with the original method, in that the total sample is constituted by the old and new data. The PD SVM incremental method is a better pattern recognition technology for PD on-line monitoring.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.83-84
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• 2008

인구의 증가로 인한 전력수요의 증가는 가공 및 지중 송진설비의 대용량화로 이어져왔다. 그러나 최근 도시 경관과 전자파로 인한 건강 등에 대한 관심이 급증하면서 주거지 주변 송전선로 실리에 대한 민원이 증가하고 있다 을에 대한 대안으로 대용량 전력송전이 가능하고 가공 및 지중송전의 단점을 보완한 가스결연 송전선로(Gas Insulated Transmission Line, GIL)가 개발되었다. 선진국에서는 가스 절연으로 우수한 절연성능과 안정성을 가지며, 기존 교통용 터널 또는 지하 전력구에 설치함으로써 주변 경관을 해치지 않고 낮은 전계 형성 등의 장점을 가진 가스절연송전선로의 연구와 개발에 많은 노력 기울이고 있다[$1{\sim}5$]. 본 논문에서는 전력기기들의 결함진단에 많이 사용되는 부분방전 측정을 가스절연 송전선로에 적용할 수 있는 최적의 측정용 센서를 개발하여 유사한 구조를 가지는 75kV GIS Mock-up과 Free moving particle 모의 방전 셀을 이용하여 발생시킨 부분방전 신호를 측정하여, 광대역 특성을 보이는 대수주기 패치 안테나와의 성능을 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.776-779
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• 2004

A RF front-end module is designed for GIS(Gas Insulated Substation) which is employed for effective and efficient very high voltage transmission. Major advantage of the unit is improved PO detection sensitivity through minimizing the effect of surrounding interference signals, which is achieved by controlling the gain and the selection of the frequency band, for the precise detection of any UHF PO (Partial Discharge) disturbance occurred in the GIS due to some unwanted problems. For the development of the module, various switches for providing selected signal paths, wideband LNA, 3 BPF for selecting detection frequency band, and video detector are designed, fabricated and measured on 1 mm FR4 substrate with various RF components. The detection sensitivity of the unit was <-60 dBm that is sufficient to detect UHF PO signals as low as 1 pC. It is believed that the value is enough to detect the signal occurred in GIS.