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The Development of a Flood Protection System for Pad Transformers Using Pneumatic Pressure in Areas Prone to Floods

  • Kim, Gi-Hyun;Lee, Jae-Yong;Bae, Suk-Myong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2010
  • The inundation of substation and ground power equipment breaks out every summer season in low-lying downtown areas and low-lying shores by torrential rain, typhoons and tsunamis. It has, in turn, caused replacement, social and economic costs for blackouts. For activity management regarding flood damage we produced a flood protection system which using the Pad transformer as a basic frame and is developed using pneumatic pressure. We tested safety concerns including insulation resistance and current leakage first for water tank flooding and, second, by an empirical test through supplying 22.9[kV]. We estimate that costs associated with flooding and power failure can be diminished by these advances toward creating a more reliable system.

An analytical study on the Effect of High impedance Transformer to reduce Distribution Fault Current (변압기 임피던스 증가에 의한 배전계통의 고장전류 저감방안의 영향분석)

  • Lee, Hyun-Chul;Lee, Geun-Joon;Hyun, Ok-Bae;Hwang, Si-Dol
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2009.07a
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    • pp.239_240
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents the brief analytical study on 돋 effects of higher impedance transformer(HIT) to reduce distribution system fault current. With the increase of source and load capacity of power system, fault current of D/L is much more increased and, conventional protection equipment-such as sectionalizer and recloser, have to be replaced higher switching capacity. However, this replacements needs a lot of budget to utility. Increase of transformer impedance is can be a countermeasure in practical basis. This paper compares the voltage and fault current magnitude of both cases -%Zt=20% and %Zt2=33.3%(transformer capacity is 75/100MVA). The simulation results show that the steady state voltage of HIT is dropped 5~6% more in peak load, and fault current was decreased about 5kA by high impedance on transformer.

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Analyses of Transformer Characteristics for Current Differential Protective Relaying (차동전류 보호계전을 위한 변압기 특성분석)

  • Kim, Myeong-Cheol;Kang, Sang-Hee;Lee, Seung-Jae;Kim, Ki-Hwa;Kim, Il-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1996.07b
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    • pp.671-673
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    • 1996
  • Simulation methods using EMTP to analyze power transformer transient characteristics and their interesting results are presented in this paper. Because of the transformer saturation including initial inrush, the conventional current differential relay with harmonic restraint module does not provide a clear distinction between internal faults and other conditions. Providing the bases to develop a new relaying concept for power transformer protection, transformer nonlinear transient characteristics are analyzed.

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Advanced Protective Relaying Algorithm by Flux-Differential Current Slope Characteristic for Power Transformer (전력용 변압기용 자속-차전류 기울기 특성에 의한 개선된 보호계전 알고리즘)

  • 박철원;신명철
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.53 no.7
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    • pp.382-388
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    • 2004
  • The most widely used primary protection for the internal fault detection of power transformers is current percentage differential relaying(PDR). However, the harmonic components could be decreased by magnetizing inrush when there have been changes to the material of iron core or its design methodology. The higher the capacitance of high voltage status and underground distribution, the more differential current includes the second harmonic component during occurrence of an internal fault. Therefore, the conventional harmonic restraint methods need modification. This paper proposes an advanced protective relaying algorithm by fluxt-differential current slope characteristic and trend of voltage and differential current. To evaluate the performance of proposed algorithm, we have made comparative studies of PDR fuzzy relaying, and DWT relaying. The paper is constructed power system model including power transformer, utilizing the WatATP99, and data collection is made through simulation of various internal faults and inrush. As the results of test. the new proposed algorithm was proven to be faster and more reliable.

Digital Relaying Algorithm for Power Transformer Protection using Fuzzy Logic Approach

  • Park, Chul-Won;Shin, Myong-Chul
    • KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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    • v.2A no.4
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    • pp.153-159
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    • 2002
  • Power transformer protective relay should block the tripping during magnetizing inrush and rapidly operate the tripping during internal faults. Recently, the frequency environment of power system has been made more complicated and the quantity of 2nd frequency component in inrush state has been decreased because of the improvement of core steel. And then, traditional approaches will likely be maloperate in the case of magnetizing inrush with low second harmonic component and internal faults with high second harmonic component. This paper proposes a new relaying algorithm to enhance the fault detection sensitivities of conventional techniques by using a fuzzy logic approach. The proposed fuzzy based relaying algorithm consists of flux-differential current derivative curve, harmonic restraint, and percentage differential characteristic curve. The proposed relaying was tested with relaying signals obtained from EMTP simulation package and showed a fast and accurate trip operation.

A basic study on protection system of superconductivity power system (대용량 초전도 신전력계통 보호방식 문제해결을 위한 기본연구)

  • Lee, Seung-Ryul;Kim, Jong-Yul;Yoon, Jae-Young;Lee, Byong-Jun
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.16-20
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    • 2007
  • This paper describes protection system of new distribution power system with superconducting power devices such as HTS cable, HTS transformer, HTS-FCL. First of all, this paper investigates protection systems of Korean power system and then do a basic study on relaying systems in the power system with HTS power devices. For the more detailed results, we did the study using EMTDC relaying system modeling from the viewpoint of superconducting power devices application. Then we proposed some solution for a high resistance fault problem.

Modified Differential Protection for Transformers in Wind Farms

  • George, Sujo P.;Ashok, S
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.78-88
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    • 2018
  • The liberalization of electricity market and environmental concerns are the major driving forces for the development of Distributed Generation (DG). The mode of grid-connected wind power generation is becoming popular and has matured as a reliable DG technology. The voltage generated by the wind generator is stepped up to the higher voltage by the transformers before connecting to the grid. Operating algorithm of the differential relays for transformer protection used in the wind farms need to be modified to take care of the dynamic nature of fault current caused by the intermittent nature of the wind power. An algorithm for the differential relay is proposed in which dual slope characteristics are adjusted with varying fault level situation according to the wind generator in service as well as with the wind speed. A case study conducted for a typical wind farm shows that the proposed method avoids mal-operation of the differential relay in varying wind power conditions.

Examination with Transmission Line Distance Relay Setting Rule Considering Error (오차를 고려한 송전선 보호 거리계전 정정룰에 대한 고찰)

  • Cho, Seong-Jin;Choi, Myeong-Song;Hyun, Seung-Ho;Kim, Joung-Wook;Lee, Joo-Wang;Cho, Bum-Sub;Yoo, Young-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.12-15
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    • 2002
  • Korea Power System Protection Setting Rule was used from the rectify 1990's. Thereafter transmission voltage is raised the voltage into 765kV, and introduction to new technology of Power System, and was many of variation but, it is using. The present is using Digital type distance relay for 765kV transmission line protection. If impedance value of transmission line were to value lower than setting, this would be operating and relay setting rule is for 85% into Zone 1 self section, and Zone 2 is a 125%, Zone 3 is a 225%. Which's $15{\sim}25%$ include current transformer error 5%, potential transformer 5%, relay calculation error 5% and margin factor from the field experience. This paper is discussed transmission protective relay and relay setting rule of high voltage power system and we verify the correctness relay setting rule with distance relay using Matlab simulation.

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The Problems and Solutions for 154kV Power Transformer neutral point Ground (154kV 송수전용 변압기 중성점 접지시 문제점과 해결방안)

  • Jeon, M.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2004.11d
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    • pp.37-39
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    • 2004
  • To restrain abnormal voltage and effective operation in protect system, some of customer in Korea earth their own transformer in 154kV power system. The above ground system has some problems if ground fault occurs in other related area such as ground relay errors, under count register in two element register system. There for most huge customers opens the ground neutral and it causes errors in insulate and protection coordination and register system. In this paper presents the solution for above system.

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Development of 60KV Pulsed Power Supply using IGBT Stacks (IGBT 직렬구동에 의한 60KV 펄스 전원장치 개발)

  • Ryoo, Hong-Je;Kim, Jong-Soo;Rim, Geun-Hie;Goussev, G.I.;Sytykh, D.
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.56 no.1
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    • pp.88-99
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, a novel new pulse power generator based on IGBT stacks is proposed for pulse power application. Because it can generate up to 60kV pulse output voltage without any step- up transformer or pulse forming network, it has advantages of fast rising time, easiness of pulse width variation and rectangular pulse shape. Proposed scheme consists of series connected 9 power stages to generate maximum 60kV output pulse and one series resonant power inverter to charge DC capacitor voltage. Each power stages are configured as 8 series connected power cells and each power cell generates up to 850VDC pulse. Finally pulse output voltage is applied using total 72 series connected IGBTs. To reduce component for gate power supply, a simple and robust gate drive circuit is proposed. For gating signal synchronization, full bridge invertor and pulse transformer generates on-off signals of IGBT gating with gate power simultaneously and it has very good characteristics of short circuit protection.