• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.36 no.8
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• pp.1036-1042
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• 2012

This paper describes an analysis on exergy efficiency of R744 OTEC power system to optimize the design for the operating parameters of this system. The operating parameters considered in this study include subcooling and superheating degree, evaporation and condensation temperature, and turbine and pump efficiency, respectively. The main results are summarized as follows : As the evaporation temperature, superheating degree, and turbine and pump efficiency of R744 OTEC power system increases, the exergy efficiency of this system increases, respectively. But condensation temperature and subcooling degree of R744 OTEC power system increases, the exergy efficiency of this system decreases, respectively. The effect of evaporation temperature and pump efficiency on R744 OTEC power system is the largest and the lowest among operation parameters, respectively. Therefore, the refrigerant temperature in the evaporator must be closely to the surface seawater temperature to enhance the exergy efficiency of R744 OTEC power system.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.85-90
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• 2010

In this paper the effects of a Static Synchronous Series Compensator, which is constructed with a 48-pulse inverter, on the power demand from the grid are studied. Extensive simulation studies were carried out in the MATLAB simulation environment to observe the compensation achieved by the SSSC and its effects on the line voltage, line current, phase angle and real/reactive power. The designed device is simulated in a power system which is comprised of a three phase power source, a transmission line, line inductance and load. The system parameters such as line voltage, line current, reactive power Q and real power P transmissions are observed both when the SSSC is connected to and disconnected from the power system. The motivation for modeling a SSSC from a multi-pulse inverter is to enhance the voltage waveform of the device and this is observed in the total harmonic distortion (THD) analysis performed at the end of the paper. According to the results, the power flow and phase angle can be controlled successfully by the new device through voltage injection. Finally a THD analysis is performed to see the harmonics content. The effect on the quality of the line voltage and current is acceptable according to international standards.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.643-653
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• 2009

Voltage-controlled voltage source inverter (VCVSI) based distributed generation systems (DGS) using renewable energy sources (RES) is becoming increasingly popular as grid support systems in both remote isolated grids as well as end of rural distribution lines. In VCVSI based DGS for load voltage stabilization, the power angle between the VCVSI output voltage and the grid is an important design parameter because it affects not only the power flow and the power factor of the grid but also the capacity of the grid, the sizing of the decoupling inductor and the VCVSI. In this paper, the steady state modeling and analysis in terms of power flow and power demand of the each component in the system at the different values of maximum power angle is presented. System design considerations are examined for various load and grid conditions. Experimental results conducted on a I KVA VCVSI based DGS prove the analysis and simulation results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.67-72
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• 2005

In conventional small signal stability analysis, system is assumed to be invariant and the state space equations are used to calculate the eigenvalues of state matrix. However, when a system contains switching elements such as FACTS devices, it becomes non-continuous system. In this case, a mathematically rigorous approach to system small signal stability analysis is by means of eigenvalue analysis of the system periodic transition matrix based on discrete system analysis method. In this paper, RCF(Resistive Companion Form) method is used to analyse small signal stability of a non-continuous system including switching elements. Applying the RCF method to the differential and integral equations of power system, generator, controllers and FACTS devices including switching elements should be modeled in the form of state transition equations. From this state transition matrix eigenvalues which are mapped to unit circle can be calculated.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.209-211
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• 1997

This paper describes the TNA(Transient Network Analyzer) modeling/operating methods and the analysis results of expected overvoltages of 765 kV system in 2005 by the TNA. The power system is expressed as the equivalent inductance of power system, power source, transmission line, switch, and etc. in the TNA. We have examined the overvoltages in the ground fault case, the fault clearing case and the closing/re-closing case. The maximum line-to-line overvoltage is 1.87 p.u., which occurs between SS and SA at the fault clearing case.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.12
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• pp.2084-2090
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• 2007

The DGA (Dissolved Gases Analysis) technique has been widely using for fault diagnosis of the power transformers. Some electric power utility company establishes the criteria of DGA to improve reliability, because of difference of operation environment and design of power transformer. In this paper, we introduce intelligent diagnosis system for DGA result of KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Cooperation). This system can classify patterns type of gases ratio that frequently occurs in recent result of gases analysis using Fuzzy Inference. The classification of Patterns let us know that major causes of gases generation based on type of patterns. Finally, Neural Network based on patterns diagnose transformer. NN was trained using result data of DGA of actually faulted transformers recently. Result of intelligent diagnosis system is right well in comparison with actual inner inspection of transformers.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.128-134
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• 2004

This paper presents a result of sound transmitting system with power line communication technique. Sound transmitting system is a transmitter which transmits modulated audio signal to power to power line and receiver which is capable of detecting it with earphone or speaker. It has been evaluated with the frequency characteristics and spectrum analysis. And, from the result of evaluation on the developed system, we confirmed the superior sound transmitting characteristics, and the possibility of application on a language laboratory.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.127-132
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• 2020

In this study, single-phase and three-level boost converters applied to the photovoltaic system were compared and analyzed in terms of efficiency and power density according to the input voltage and load conditions. For accurate analysis of efficiency, the losses in each device of the single-phase and three-level boost converters were derived using mathematical equations and simulations by using the PSIM thermal module. Then, the losses were compared with the efficiency confirmed through the actual experiments. Results confirmed that the efficiency and power density can be improved by applying the three-level boost converter to the system according to the selection of the switching frequency.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.39-40
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• 2016

Power conversion system comes with a twenty-year warranty commonly. Life test requires a long time. The life of power conversion system that especially sensitive to temperature can be expected within a short time by using Arrhenius technique with worst stress condition than actual working condition. This paper researches reliability analysis and environment test of power conversion system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1071-1074
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• 2002

In this paper, power quality analysis system is proposed where voltage or current waveforms are nonsinusoidal. The proposed system relies on the FFT algorithm to compute real and reactive power. The advantage of system is that harmonic analysis is carried out on a period of the input signal. The proposed system is based on FFT processor which is designed using VHDL(Very high-speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language). In the design of FFT processor, radix- $2^2$ is adopted to reduce several complex multipliers for twiddle factor. Complex multiplier is implemented as only shifters and adders. Therefore, the system is able to have both high hardware efficiency and high performance.