• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.48 no.8
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• pp.958-964
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• 1999

The distance in load parameter space to the closest saddle node bifurcation (CSNB) point provides the worst case power margin to voltage instability and the left eigenvector at CSNB identifies the most effective direction to steer the system to maximize voltage stability under contingency. This paper presents an improved direct method for computing CSNB: the order of nonlinear systems equations is reduced to about twice of the size of load flow equations in contrast to about three-times in Dobson's direct method; the initial guess for the direct method is computed efficiently and robustly by combined use of continuation power flow, a pair of multiple load flow solution with Lagrange interpolation. It is also shown that voltage stability may be enhanced significantly with shift of generations in the direction of the left eigenvector at CSNB.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.53 no.8
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• pp.484-489
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• 2004

When the energy resource available to a particular plant (be it coal, oil, gas, water, or nuclear fuel) is a limiting factor in the operation of the plant, the entire economic dispatch calculation must be done differently. Each economic dispatch calculation must account for what happened before and what will happen in the future. This paper presents a formulation and a solution method for the optimization problem with a fuel constraint in a competitive electricity market. Take-or- Pay (TOP) contract for an energy resource is the typical constraint as a limiting factor. Two approaches are proposed in this paper for modeling the dispatch calculation in a market mechanism. The approaches differ in the subject who considers and inserts the fuel-constraint into its optimization problem. Market operator and each power producer having a TOP contract are assumed as such subjects. The two approaches are compared from the viewpoint of profits. surplus. and social welfare on the basis of Nash Equilibrium.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.36-38
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 여러 대의 인버터를 동시에 사용하는 분산전원 환경하에서 Anti-islanding을 효과적으로 할 수 있는 방안을 제안한다. 제안하는 Anti-islanding기법은 SMS(Sliding Mode Frequency Shift)를 근간으로 하면서 공진 Q가 높을 때 검출이 어려운 단점을 해결하는 방법을 제시한다. SMS위상의 변동 값을 판단근거를 사용하지 않고 SMS위상의 적분 값을 판단근거로 사용한다. Run on시간이 0.5초 이내로 국내외 규격을 모두 만족시킨다. 여러 대의 인버터를 병렬로 접속해도 islanding 검출이 탁월하다. 출력전력의 품질 면에 있어서도 다른 Anti-islanding기법에 비해 우수하다. 본 알고리즘의 우수성을 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.55-61
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• 2009

This paper presents a modified Phasor Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization (PDPSO) algorithm to configure Community Energy Systems(CESs) in the distribution system. The CES obtains electric power from its own Distributed Generations(DGs) and purchases insufficient power from the competitive power market, to supply power for customers contracted with the CES. When there are two or more CESs in a network, the CESs will continue the competitive expansion to reduce the total operation cost. The particles of the proposed PDPSO algorithm have magnitude and phase angle values, and move within a circle area. In the case study, the results by PDPSO algorithm was compared with that by the conventional DPSO algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.500_502
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• 2009

한전의 분산전원 연계규정에 따르면 수전고객은 변압기 결선이 ${\triangle}-Yg$ 주로 사용되나 분산전원 연계선로는 변압기 결선이 $Yg-{\triangle}$ 형태로 연계되어 있다. 전원계통 고장시 ${\triangle}-Yg$ 결선 방식은 역조류가 발생되지 않으나, $Yg-{\triangle}$ 결선방식은 중성선을 통해 최대 2000[A]까지 역으로 고장전류를 공급한다[1]. 이때 보호계전기 오동작뿐만 아니라 연계용변압기, 케이블 등 설비보호를 위해서는 고장전류의 크기를 반드시 제한해야 된다. 본 논문은 연계용변압기에 의해서 공급되는 중성선의 과전류 현상을 해석하고, 이론적으로 해석된 결과를 PSCAD/EMTDC로 검증하였으며 고장전류의 크기를 저감하기 위해 NGR 저항 값을 조절하면서 고장전류의 크기를 시뮬레이션 하였다. 분산전원 연계선로에서 영상분 고장전류의 크기를 저감하는 방법으로 연계용 변압기($Yg-{\triangle}$) 1차 측에 중성선에 NGR(Neutral Grounding Reactor; 중성점 접지리액터)을 설치해야 하며 영상임피던스를 조절하는 방법을 제시하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.475-475
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• 2009

Recent alarming acceleration of global warming has made power generations using renewable energy to be in the middle of the spotlight. Korean government has also announced that it will make the related industry to be nation's one of main export items with high investments to low carbon green growth industry. To achieve this goal of exporting the renewable energy power generation system beyond domestic use, internationally acceptable rules should be applied and the three step processes of design, performance assessment and certification should follow international standards. Corresponding this international requests, IEC(International Electrotechnical Commission) is conducting the establishment of rules in TC88 for technical requirements of wind turbines. Design life-time of a wind turbine is required to be at least 20 years. In the meantime, the wind turbine will experience a lot of load cases such as extreme loads and fatigue loads which will include several typhoons per year and extreme gusts with 50 years recurrence period as well as endless turbulence flow. Therefore, IEC 61400-1 specifies design load cases to be considered in the wind turbine design and requires the wind turbine to withstand the load cases in various operational situations. It thus appears that the examination of contents and decisions discussed in the international standard committee will help people in the field of offshore wind energy and ocean energy converters.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.240-241
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• 2006

Islanding operations of DG usually occur when power supply from the main utility is interrupted due to several reasons but the DG keeps supplying power into the distribution networks. These kinds of islanding conditions cause negative impacts on protection, operation, and management of distribution systems. Therefore, it is necessary to effectively detect the islanding conditions and swiftly disconnect DG from distribution network. This paper proposes the islanding detection algorithm for DG using the change of the voltage unbalance and the output power of DG. The proposed method effectively combines the conventional parameters for detecting the islanding conditions. The proposed methods were verified using the radial distribution network of IEEE 34 bus.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.25-27
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• 2002

This paper describes a new economical voltage sag and swell generator suitable to the evaluations of high power custom power devices such as DVR (Dynamic Voltage Restorer) and DSTATCOM (Distribution Static Compensator). This system was designed to generate the several power quality disturbances in MVA power ratings - voltage sag and swell, under voltage, over voltage and harmonic distortions. The basic idea for voltage sag and swell is to use the voltage drop across a reactor, while the voltage swell is to use the step-up transformer and the TCR(Thyristor Controlled Reactor). In this paper, two identical 3 phase TCRs and a step-up transformer with tap changer are used. Additional harmonic filters are added to reduce the voltage distortion when TCRs are operated. Simulation results are given for several cases of voltage sag and swell generations.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.53 no.8
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• pp.509-516
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• 2004

The concerns of distributed generations including photovoltaic(PV) system have been increased around the world since PV system is becoming widespread as a clean and gentle energy source for earth. In the future high density grid-connected PV systems will be interconnected with distribution network. As a result, the stability and long-term reliability of PV systems have become more important issues in this area. Grid-connected PV systems have been installed and monitored at field demonstration test center(FDTC) and also data acquisition system(DAS) has been constructed for measuring and analyzing performance of PV system to observe the overall effect of environmental conditions on their operation characteristics. The performance of PV system has been evaluated and analyzed for component perspective (PV array and power conditioning system) and global perspective (system efficiency, capacity factor, and electrical power energy) by field test and loss factors of PV system.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.846-854
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• 2024

FEMAXI-ATF is being developed for fuel performance modeling of SiC cladded UO2 fuel with focuses on modeling pellet-cladding mechanical interactions (PCMI). The code considers probability distributions of mechanical strengths of monolithic SiC (mSiC) and SiC fiber reinforced SiC matrix composite (SiC/SiC), while it models pseudo-ductility of SiC/SiC and propagation of cladding failures across the wall thickness direction in deterministic manner without explicitly modeling cracks based on finite element method in one-dimensional geometry. Some hypothetical BWR power ramp conditions were used to test sensitivities of different model parameters on the analyzed PCMI behavior. The results showed that propagation of the cladding failure could be modeled by appropriately reducing modulus of elasticities of the failed wall element, so that the mechanical load of the failed element could be re-distributed to other intact elements. The probability threshold for determination of the wall element failure did not have large influence on the predicted power at failure when the threshold was varied between 25 % and 75 %. The current study is still limited with respect to mechanistic modeling of SiC failure as it only models the propagation of the cladding wall element failure across the homogeneous continuum wall without considering generations and propagations of cracks.