• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.108-114
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• 2008

Recently, there have been several instances that the nuclear power plants were shut down due to the mechanical faults in the main transformer of the plants. These mechanical faults are primarily originated from the electromagnetically induced mechanical vibrations. Magnetostriction is identified to be the main cause of the mechanical vibration after analyzing the vibration data of the main transformers in nuclear power plants. In this study, we derived a mathematical model of the magnetostriction based on the Jiles-Atherton hysteresis model. The validity of the model is checked by matching the simulations with the experimental observations. The magnetostriction model used in this study will be the first step toward developing a design tool far the transformers that have minimal mechanical vibrations and are robust to mechanical faults.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1006-1009
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• 2015

3상 4선식 배전계통에서 특정 수용가가 어떤 변압기로부터 공급되는지를 결정하기 위한 전력선 통신방식을 활용한 식별 방법이 제안된다. 이러한 배전계통에서 전력선 통신 신호의 전달 특성을 분석하기 위한 변압기, 3상 선로, 부하 등에 대한 수치해석 모델을 기술한다. 배전선로에 고주파 전력신호를 주입하여 분석 한 결과 고주파 신호는 배전선에서 전달 능력에 한계 능력을 갖는다. 보통 배전계통의 전력 변압기는 그러한 고주파 신호의 전달을 차폐하게 된다. 이러한 제안된 전송제한 방법을 사용하여 변압기를 식별하는데 적용한다. 새로운 형태의 전력선 변압기 식별시스템이 설계 및 구현된다. 시스템은 전력선 통신 모듈을 바탕으로 송수신기로 구성된다. 이론적 개념을 검증하기 위해서 일반 상업용 건물에서 실험이 행하여진다. 또한 MATLAB Simulink 시뮬레이터를 사용하여 개념에 대한 이해를 위한 시뮬레이션이 수행된다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권11호
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• pp.1962-1969
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• 2008

According to the increase of power demand and expansion of downtown, it is necessary to install transformers additionally in operating substations and construct substations in residential area. But the public complaint is increased due to the transformer noise of the substation. KEPCO has used a vibration preventing pad, various soundproof walls and an encloser to transformers in outdoor substations, and a soundproof door, shutter and wind-path soundproof equipment in indoor substations to block the sound propagation of the transformers. But these noise reduction methods are not satisfied. It should be considered to reduce transformer noise itself. In this paper, we investigated core noise reduction techniques to develope a low noise transformer. The techniques to reduce core noise of the transformer are application of high permeability grain oriented silicon sheets, decrease of magnetic flux density of core, application of 6step-lap core stacking method, improvement of core binding method(binding addition, band fixing) and application of rubber damper in oder to reduce transmission of core vibration, etc.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권10호
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• pp.1759-1766
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• 2008

According to the increase of power demand and expansion of downtown, it is necessary to install transformers additionally in operating substations and construct substations in residential area. But the public complaint has been increased due to the transformer noise of the substation. KEPCO has used a vibration preventing pad, various soundproof walls and an encloser to transformers in outdoor substations, and a soundproof door, shutter and wind-path soundproof equipment in indoor substations to block the sound propagation from the transformers. But these noise reduction methods are not satisfied. It should be considered to reduce transformer noise itself. In this paper, we investigated tank noise reduction techniques to develope a low noise transformer. According to the mode analysis of transformer tank, we found out characteristics and locations of noise on the tank, and it's nature vibration was also analysed. On the basis of these analysis, reinforcement equipment was installed around transformer tank, and ellipse shape tank was changed to round shape tank. The effect of noise reduction was evaluated using noise generation source.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권9호
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• pp.1335-1342
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• 2013

Subway is electrified railway system nowadays, in which liquid dielectric transformers have been widely used, though mold type transformers are replacing it. The transformers supplies large electric power and have innate hazards causing accidents under operation. A number of researcher have carried out on failures of it and have oriented to identify transformer's failure causes and how to maintain it healthy state. The transformer failures can cause serious accidents which can provoke economic loss and leads persons to kill. In this paper, we carried out a safety activity to reveal hazards and to estimate risk of subway liquid dielectric transformers using FMEA, HAZOP and What-if methods. In case of installing safety devices in oil immersed transformer, we tried to evaluate an effect on a subsystem's failure rate. We proposed how to design subsystem failure rate and safety device failure rates.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 출력 고조파 성분을 억제하기 위한 한 방법으로 변압기의 조합에 의한 멀티 레벨 인버터를 제안한다. 제안된 인버터의 구조는 요구하는 멀티 레벨의 출력 생성을 위한 단상 풀-브리지 인버터 모듈과 이와 동일한 수의 변압기로 구성되며, 변압기의 권수비를 적절히 선택하여 직류 전원에 대한 정수비의 연속적인 전압 레벨의 발생이 가능한 새로운 멀티 레벨 인버터이다. 제안하는 인버터는 변압기의 직렬 운전으로 출력단의 필터용 인덕터가 필요 없다. 제안된 멀티 레벨 인버터의 타당성을 입증하기 위해 24[V] 직류 전원에서 220 [V] 교류 전원을 발생시킬 수 있는 인버터에 대하여 1.5 [kW]급 시작품을 제작하고 실험을 행하였다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.87-96
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• 2004

This paper summarizes the research results of the load management for pole transformers done in 1997-1998 and 2000-2002. The purpose of the research is to enhance the accuracy of peak load estimation in pole transformers. We concentrated our effort on the acquisition of massive actual load data for modifying the load regression coefficients, which related to the peak load estimation of lamp-use customers, and adjusting the demand-factor coefficients, which used for the peak load prediction of motor-use customers. To enhance the load regression equations, the 264 load data acquisition devices are equipped to the sample pole transformers. For the modification of demand factor coefficients, the peak load currents are measured in each customer and pole transformer for 13 KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation) distribution branch offices. Case studies for 50 sample pole transformers show that the proposed coefficients could reduce estimating error of the peak load for pole transformers, compared with the conventional one.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.9
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• pp.53-53
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• 2008

Piezoelectric transformers have been widely used such as DC-DC convertor, invertor, Ballast, etc. Because, the y have some merits compared with electro-magnetic transformers such as step-up ratio, high efficiency, small size and lg hit weight, etc. Piezoelectric transformer require high electromechanical coupling factor kp in order to induce a large out put power in proportional to applied electric field. And also, high mechanical quality factor Qm is required to prevent mechanical loss and heat generation. In general, PZT system ceramics should be sintered at high temperatures between 1200 and $1300^{\circ}C$ in order to obtain complete densification. Accordingly, environmental pollution due to its PbO evaporation. Hence, to reduce its sintering temperature, various kinds of material processing methods such as hot pressing, high energy mill, liquid phase sintering, and using ultra fine powder have been performed. Among these methods, liquid phase sintering is basically an effective method for aiding densification at low temperature. In this study, In order to comparis on low temperature sintering and solid state sintering piezoelectric transformers, rosen type transformers were fabricated u sing two PZT ceramics compositions and their electrical properties were investigated.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.177-185
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• 2013

This paper studies a soft switching DC/DC converter to achieve zero voltage switching (ZVS) for all switches under a wide range of load condition and input voltage. Two three-level PWM circuits with the same power switches are adopted to reduce the voltage stress of MOSFETs at $V_{in}/2$ and achieve load current sharing. Thus, the current stress and power rating of power semiconductors at the secondary side are reduced. The series-connected transformers are adopted in each three-level circuit. Each transformer can be operated as an inductor to smooth the output current or a transformer to achieve the electric isolation and power transfer from the input side to the output side. Therefore, no output inductor is needed at the secondary side. Two center-tapped rectifiers connected in parallel are used at the secondary side to achieve load current sharing. Due to the resonant behavior by the resonant inductance and resonant capacitance at the transition interval, all switches are turned on at ZVS. Experiments based on a 1kW prototype are provided to verify the performance of proposed converter.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제63권2호
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• pp.297-305
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• 2014

Nowadays new water supply projects have been on the decline as the water-power constructions have saturated, which means that the existing power equipment have slowly aged and they require more efforts to maintain the system performance. An effective asset management method of power equipment has become a great necessity from both economical and technical aspects. To be balanced, the asset management should look into all three parts: management, engineering, and information. The purpose of this paper is to study a Risk-Based Maintenance (RBM) matrix method through the deterioration evaluation algorithm for an efficient reliability assessment of oil-immersed power transformers by considering both asset management and technical evaluation. Make use of this result, the equipment will be decided to be replace or repair otherwise on service.