• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.167-176
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• 2008

Vulnerability assessment of power systems is important so as to determine their ability to continue to provide service in case of any unforeseen catastrophic contingency such as power system component failures, communication system failures, human operator error, and natural calamity. An approach towards the development of on-line power system vulnerability assessment is by means of using an artificial neural network(ANN), which is being used successfully in many areas of power systems because of its ability to handle the fusion of multiple sources of data and information. An important consideration when applying ANN in power system vulnerability assessment is the proper selection and dimension reduction of training features. This paper aims to investigate the effect of using various feature extraction methods on the performance of ANN as well as to evaluate and compare the efficiency of the proposed feature extraction method named as neural network weight extraction. For assessing vulnerability of power systems, a vulnerability index based on power system loss is used and considered as the ANN output. To illustrate the effectiveness of ANN considering various feature extraction methods for vulnerability assessment on a large sized power system, it is verified on the IEEE 300-bus test system.

• 에너지공학
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.240-246
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• 2014

본 연구는 냉장고의 본체와 냉장고 문 사이에 있는 가스켓 주위에 냉장고 본체와 문의 밀착을 위해 설치하는 고무자석의 재질과 형상을 변경하여 냉장고 열손실을 개선하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 냉동실과 냉장실을 포함한 냉장고 수평 단면에 대하여 가스켓 주위에 대한 열전달 해석을 수행하였다. 본 연구를 통해 가스켓 내부와 Hotline 옆의 고무자석의 열전도율을 기존 10W/mK에서 1W/mK로 변화하면 냉장고 열손실이 약 7% 저감되고 Hotline 옆의 고무자석을 제거하고 대신에 철판을 설치하면 냉장고의 열손실을 약 17% 저감 되는 것을 알 수 있었으며 Hotline 옆의 고무자석을 제거하고 대신에 철판을 설치하는 것이 냉장고 열손실에 큰 효과가 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.132-139
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• 2016

The piston of a marine diesel engine works under severe conditions, including a combustion pressure of over 180 bar, high thermal load, and high speed. Therefore, the analyses of the fatigue strength, thermal load, clamping (bolting) system and lubrication performance are important in achieving a robust piston design. Designing the surface profile and the skirt ovality carefully is important to prevent severe wear and reduce frictional loss for engine efficiency. This study performs flexible multi-body dynamic and elasto-hydrodynamic (EHD) analyses using AVL/EXCITE/PU are performed to evaluate tribological characteristics. The numerical techniques employed to perform the EHD analysis are as follows: (1) averaged Reynolds equation considering the surface roughness; (2) Greenwood_Tripp model considering the solid_to_solid contact using the statistical values of the summit roughness; and (3) flow factor considering the surface topology. This study also compares two cases of skirt shapes with minimum oil film thickness, peak oil film pressure, asperity contact pressure, wear rate using the Archard model and friction power loss (i.e., frictional loss mean effective pressure (FMEP)). Accordingly, the study compares the calculated wear pattern with the field test result of the piston operating for 12,000h to verify the quantitative integrity of the numerical analysis. The results show that the selected profile and the piston skirt ovality reduce friction power loss and peak oil film pressure by 7% and 57%, respectively. They also increase the minimum oil film thickness by 34%.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.336-342
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• 2018

군용으로 사용하는 궤도장비 디젤엔진의 보조동력장치에 대한 소음저감은 소요군의 감성품질을 만족시키는 중요한 요소 중 하나이다. 본 연구에서 이러한 보조동력장치의 소음을 줄이기 위해 구조기인소음을 저감하는 방법과 공기기인소음을 저감하는 방법을 고안하여 시험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 구조기인소음 저감을 위해 소음기를 개선하였을 때 약 22 dB(A)의 소음저감 효과가 있었다. 공기기인소음 저감의 영향을 알아보기 위해 흡음재의 종류와 후방문 그릴의 형상에 따른 소음을 측정하였고 그 영향은 인간이 인지하지 못하는 수준인 3 dB(A) 미만의 소음저감 효과가 나타났다. 또한, 실제차량에 소음저감을 위한 방안들을 적용하여 시험한 결과 구조기인소음을 저감하였을 때 약 9 dB(A)의 소음저감 효과가 나타났으며 공기기인소음의 저감효과는 1 dB(A) 이하로 측정된 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 궤도장비의 APU 소음저감을 위해서는 공기기인소음을 저감하는 방법보다 구조물을 통해 전달되는 소음을 저감하는 방안이 효과적이라는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구결과를 통해 추후 개발하는 타 군용 궤도장비의 소음을 저감하기 위한 기초자료로 사용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2016년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.165-166
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 Common-Mode Noise가 저감된 계통연계형 단상인버터의 파워소자선정에 따른 스위칭 손실 저감을 제안한다. 풀브리지 회로에서 상용전원 레퍼런스 주파수로 상보적인 스위칭 신호를 주는 PWM_1구간에는 비교적 천천히 스위칭하기 때문에 컨덕션 loss가 적은 IGBT를 사용하며, 보다 빠른 스위칭 주파수로 동작하는 PWM_2구간에서는 Switching loss가 적은 MOSFET을 사용하여 전체적인 스위치에서 발생되는 손실을 저감한다.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.26-32
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• 2012

A current compensation method to reduce the mismatch loss in PV systems is proposed as a way to increase the power generation efficiency. A dc-dc converter is used to supply currents to irregular modules in a PV string and is powered from the string output. The converter's voltage conversion ratio is adjusted so that all the modules in the string are operated at the maximum power point. The power rating and size of the converter can be reduced since only the current difference between the regular and irregular module may be supplied. The compensated string shows very little voltage mismatch compared to other regular strings. The validity of the proposed method is verified through a simulation and experiments in a prototype PV system.

• 한국조명전기설비학회지:조명전기설비
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.57-62
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• 1992

In this paper, the reasonable design standard of Demand Factor for large office buildings is introduced that was made by the statistical way considering actual conditions, such as investigated electrical equipment capacity, electrical power consumption, etc. The results are as follows. 1) It is shown that th saving of electrical equipment investment, the decrease of power loss, the improvement of facilities utilization and the decrease of electrical power rates can be contributed by the application of the design standard. 2) The effect of reduction is showed to confirm the practical use of the proposed reference Demand Factor, and also, it is believed that this proposed reference Demand Factor will be useful in electrical equipment operation and planning.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 Proceedings ICPE 98 1998 International Conference on Power Electronics
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• pp.264-269
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• 1998

A proposed soft-switching buck-boost PWM converter has a lot of advantages, Viz., electric isolation, a high power factor, low switching losses, low EMI noise, reduction of the voltage and current stresses, etc. In a new PFC converter, the switching device is replaced by the loss-less snubber circuit to achieve the zero voltage switching (ZVS) at the maximum current. However, the charging current of the capacitor in the loss-less snubber circuit distorts the input current waveforms. To improve the input current waveform, a new duty factor control method is proposed in this paper.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1567-1570
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• 2022

This paper, we presents a RF protection technique of antenna switch by improving the power handling capability in worst case environment mode for mobile phone applications without critical payment of circuit performances such as insertion loss, isolation and ACBV (AC breakdown voltage). By applying a additional capacitive path located in front of the antenna in cell-phone, it performs the effective reduction of input power in high voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) condition. Under the all-path off condition which causes a high VSWR, it achieved 37.7dBm power handling level as high as 5.7dB compared to that of conventional one at 2GHz. In addition, insertion loss and isolation performances were 0.31dB and 42.72dB at 2 GHz, respectively which were almost similar to that of the conventional circuit. The proposed antenna switch was fabricated in 130nm CMOS SOI technology.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.259-267
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• 2019

An active clamp flyback (ACF) converter applies a clamp circuit and circulates the energy of leakage inductance to the input side, thereby achieving a zero-voltage switching (ZVS) operation and greatly reducing switching losses. The switching losses are further reduced by applying a gallium nitride field effect transistor (GaN-FET) with excellent switching characteristics, and ZVS operation can be accomplished under light load with boundary conduction mode (BCM) operation. Optimal design is performed on the basis of loss analysis by selecting magnetization inductance based on BCM operation and a clamp capacitor for loss reduction. Therefore, the size of the reactive element can be reduced through high-frequency operation, and a high-efficiency and high-power-density converter can be achieved. This study proposes an optimal design for a high-efficiency and high-power-density BCM ACF converter based on GaN-FETs and verifies it through experimental results of a 65 W-rated prototype.