• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.82-88
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• 2014

This paper presents the results of model tests for the attachment process of lightning leader to ground which is one of poorly understood processes of cloud-to-ground lightning discharges. In order to simulate the attachment process of lightning leader to ground, we investigated the discharge characteristics of air gap between the tip of needle-shaped electrode and the soil surface as a parameter of moisture content in soils when the positive and negative $1.2/50{\mu}s$ lightning impulse voltages are applied. The breakdown voltage and the discharge light were observed. As a result, the attachment processes of lightning leader to ground are strongly dependent on the grain size and the moisture content of soils. The time to breakdown was shortened with increasing the magnitude of incident impulse voltages. The delay time from application of the highest voltage to breakdown in sand is shortened with increasing the moisture content. The delay time from application of the voltage to breakdown in gravel varied from about $0.5{\mu}s$ to several ${\mu}s$. As the moisture content in soil increases, the breakdown voltages are decreased and the breakdown voltage versus time to breakdown curves are shifted toward the lower side. The results obtained in this work are similar to those for non-uniform air gap stressed by lightning impulse voltages.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2013

The lightning shielding of different 500 kV HVAC-TL high voltage AC transmission lines was analyzed. The studied transmission lines were horizontal flat single circuit and double circuit transmission lines. The lightning attractive areas were drawn around power conductors and shielding wires. To draw the attractive areas of the high voltage transmission lines, transmission line power conductors, shielding wires and lightning leader were modeled. Different parameters were considered such as lightningslope, ground slope and wind on lightning attractive areas. From the calculated results, the power conductors voltages affected on attractive areas around power conductors and shielding wires. For negative lightning leader, the attractive area around the transmission line power conductor increased around power conductors stressed by positives voltage and decreased around power conductors stressed by negative voltage. In spite of this, the attractivearea of the transmission line shielding wire increasedaround the shielding wire above the power conductor stressed by the positive voltage and decreased around the shielding wire above the power conductor stressed by negative voltage. The attractive areas around power conductors and shielding wires were affected by the surrounding conditions, such as lightning leader slope, ground slope. The AC voltage of the transmission lines made the shielding areas changing with time.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권8호
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• pp.1503-1510
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• 2007

To implement a high-precision lightning tracking system utilizing TDOA measurements, high-speed data acquisition and precise timing synchronization between ground sensors should be achieved. At the same time, considering the size of digitizer's memory, the data memory needs to be managed so that only the sampled data around the occurrence of stepped leader pulse is stored. This paper presents a detection-and-acquisition system for lightning signals that is the main equipment of ground sensor in lightning tracking system. GPS clock module is used to get precise timing synchronization and the 500MHz high speed digitizer is employed. In order to detect the leading edge of the lightning pulse and save the sampled data and its timing, lightning detection module is implemented and multi-record method is employed in the proposed system. Field experiment results show that the proposed system can detect and save the lightning signal efficiently.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2003

In this paper statistics on the radiation field waveforms produced by stepped leaders just prior to lightning return strokes were described. As a parameter of stepped leader pulse characteristics, the time interval between the final leader pulse and return stroke peak, the pause time between stepped leaders, the ratio of the final leader peak to the return stroke peak and the stepped leader pulse width at half maximum were examined. The average time intervals between the final leader pulse and return stroke peak were about 16.2 and 14.8$mutextrm{s}$ for the positive and negative polarities, respectively. When the stepped leader approaches closely to ground, the time interval between leader steps was decreased and the mean value was about 17$mutextrm{s}$, and the present results were in reasonable agreement with the data observed in Florida and Japan. The large fraction of the ratios of the final stepped leader pulse to the lightning return stroke peak were distributed over the range from 5 to 35% and in average the ratio of the final leader pulse to the return stroke peak was 17.4$\pm$11.9% for the positive and 18.5$\pm$9.4% for the negative electric field waveforms. In addition, the mean pulse widths at half maximum of the stepped leaders are 1.4Us with a standard deviation of 0.9 for the positive Polarity and 2.2us with a standard deviation of 1.2 for the negative polarity, respectively.

• International Journal of Safety
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.18-23
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• 2006

Studies have claimed that ESE (Early Streamer Emission) air terminals offer a vastly increased zone of protection over that of traditional lightning rods (Franklin rods) by causing the emission of an upward streamer/leader: The upward streamer/leader will propagate towards the tip of the downward leader at an early stage in the attachment process.. This paper shows the results of a performance evaluation test of a particular type of the ESE air terminal (called "ElecHippo") with a simple rod tested at the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI). The corona emission current of the ElecHippo made by Yong-Jin Enterprise Corp. has also been measured at the Occupational Safety & Health Research Institute (OSHRI). The results show that the ElecHippo meets the French standard of NFC 17-102-1995. The results also verify the ESE performance by measuring the ion emission current generated in the discharge electrode gap as a function of the capacitance and inductance of the equipped devices. Finally, we propose a new method for grounding the system to reduce the lightning damage by combining the ESE air terminal, the early discharge earth plate, the lightning strike recorder and the surge protection device.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.760-768
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• 2011

The performance of transmission lines and its shielding design during a lightning phenomenon are quite essential in the maintenance of a reliable power supply to consumers. The leader progression model, as an advanced approach, has been recently developed to calculate the shielding failure rate (SFR) of transmission lines using geometrical data and physical behavior of upward and downward lightning leaders. However, such method is quite time consuming. In the present paper, an effective method that utilizes artificial neural networks (ANNs) to create a metamodel for calculating the SFR of a transmission line based on shielding angle and height is introduced. The results of investigations on a real case study reveal that, through proper selection of an ANN structure and good training, the ANN prediction is very close to the result of the detailed simulation, whereas the Processing time is by far lower than that of the detailed model.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제31권9호
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• pp.110-120
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• 2003

고공을 운항하는 항공기는 대기중의 자연현상에 의해 낙뢰에 노출되게 된다. 낙뢰 피해는 개발초기에는 목재 항공기의 절연파괴에 의한 손상과 화재등이 있었으며 알루미늄의 보급으로 전금속체 항공기가 개발되었지만 연료탱크의 화재 문제라든지 낙뢰 사고는 계속 발생하였다. 이에 NACA에서는 1938년 문제를 제기하고, 인공 낙뢰에 대한 연구를 시작하였다. 이어 FAA에서는 낙뢰보호에 대한 인증을 위해 감항기준을 제정하고 SAE에 낙뢰에 대한 항공기의 보호를 위한 시험대책 연구를 의뢰하여 낙뢰를 모사한 시험 전류, 전약 파형을 제시하여 항공기의 낙뢰보호, 인증에 활용하고 있다. 이 글에서는 낙뢰의 메커니즘 분석을 통한 항공기에 대한 낙뢰의 영향을 제시하고 특히 항공기 안전사고의 중요한 요인으로 대두되고 있는 항공기에 대한 낙뢰의 직접영향에 대한 사례를 분석하고 인증기준과 시험 전류 및 전압파형, 낙뢰 피격부위를 열거하여 개발항공기 및 비행체에 대한 인증에 활용되도록 하였다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.288-295
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• 2001

Predischarges in nonuniform electric field stressed by lightning impulse voltagesin SF(sub)6-$N_2$mixtures are initiated by streamer coronas. Due to field ehnancement at a protrusion point of electrodes new ionization processes occur and a precursor, which leads to a first leader, is created. The leader proceeds step by step to the opposite electrode and the final jump bridges the test gap. It was found that the predischarge is propagated with a leader mechanism of stepwise expansion from the predischarge current waveforms measured by a shunt. The predischarge current is closely related to the amplitude and polarity of applied voltages, the gas pressure and the gap geometry. The time intervals between step leaders for the positive and negative polarities were inversely proportional to V.P$^2$. When the gas pressure increases in the positive polarity, statistical time lag to statistical time lag to streamer corona inception increase slightly, but the formative time lag to flashover is significantly decreased.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제50권12호
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• pp.627-632
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• 2001

There are claims that ESE(Early streamer emission) Air terminals offer a vastly increased zone of protection over that of traditional lightning rods by causing the emission of an upward streamer/leader that will propagate towards the tip of downward leader at an early stage in the attachment process than would occur for a simple rod in the same geometrical configurations. This paper shows the results of comparing test a particular type of ESE air terminals with a simple rod conducted in the KEH HV laboratory, which are lightning impulse voltage test, flashover direction test and corona emission current measurement. The results from this test show a completely random scattering of flashovers to the conventional and ESE air terminals under identical electrics] and geometrical conditions, and thus shows no advantage of one terminal over the other.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.112-117
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 뇌전자장 펄스에 관한 상세한 정보를 얻기 위한 목적으로 운방전에 의해서 방사되는 전자파 펄스를 측정하고, 이의 특성과 파라미터를 통계적으로 분석하였다. 운방전에 의해서 방사된 전자파 펄스는 낙뢰에 의한 것과는 확연하게 달랐으며, 후속 스토로크로 갈수록 주 방전에 의한 양방성 전자파 펄스의 영점교차시간과 펄스폭은 짧게 나타났다. 또한 주 방전에 의한 양방성 전자파 펄스의 파두부분에는 좁고 빠른 리더펄스가 중첩되어 나타났으며, 이 중첩된 리더펄스의 평균 개수는 정극성에서 61$\pm$0.74, 부극성에서 1.75$\pm$0.73이었다.