• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권8호
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• pp.785-792
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• 2006

The microwave heating system of KSTAR consists of ECH and LHCD. ECH and LHCD offer the benefits ofa reliable operation at the start of plasma formation and a non-inductive current drive durable steady state operation, respectively. LHCD uses a C-band microwave system with a frequency of 5 GHz. A pulsed power modulator with a power of 3.6 MW, $4{\mu}S$, 200 pps is required to drive the high-powered magnetron. The development of a pulse modulator with 1:4 pulse transformers is the focus of the research in this study. The peak power handling capability is 3.6 MW (45 kV, 90 A at load side with a pulse width of $4{\mu}S$). This paper describes the system overview and test results of the pulsed modulator. In particular, a simulated waveform is compared with the tested waveform.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.34-44
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• 2018

This paper presents a pulse-width adjustment (PWA) strategy for a novel bidirectional DC-DC boost converter to improve the performance of the dynamic inductor current response. This novel converter consists of three main components: a full-bridge converter (FBC), a high-frequency isolated transformer with large leakage inductance, and a three-level voltage-doubler rectifier (VDR). A number of scholars have analyzed the principles, such as the soft-switching performance and high-efficiency characteristic, of this converter based on pulse-width modulation plus phase-shift (PPS) control. It turns out that this converter is suitable for energy storage applications and exhibits good performance. However, the dynamic inductor current response processes of control variable adjustment is not analyzed in this converter. In fact, dc component may occur in the inductor current during its dynamic response process, which can influence the stability and reliability of the converter system. The dynamic responses under different operating modes of a conventional feedforward control are discussed in this paper. And a PWA strategy is proposed to enhance the dynamic inductor current response performance of the converter. This paper gives a detailed design and implementation of the PWA strategy. The proposed strategy is verified through a series of simulation and experimental results.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.464-466
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• 2001

In this paper, we developed the on-line Data Aquisition System(DAS) of distribution transformers using the hardware and monitoring program. The DAS consists of the top oil temperature sensing part, ambient temperature sensing part, load current sensing part, acoustic emission peak-value sensing part, acoustic emission pulse counter part, micro-processor part and wireless communication part. The Monitoring System consists of the communication setting, online monitoring and database construction part. The DAS send the data acquired from the some sensors of the distribution transformers to the host PC. The monitoring program of the host PC stores the data to database. And the monitoring system estimates the loss of life time for distribution transformer from the DB. Thus, it could be managed the career and the functional lifetime of the transformer more efficiently than existing methodologies.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.681-684
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• 2005

본 논문은 (3$^{n-1}$+2) 레벨 형성법에 기반한 멀티레벨 인버터를 제안한다. PWM 인버터, LEVEL 인버터와 다단 변압기로 구성되는 이 회로는 양질의 출력전압을 형성하기 위해서 이차측이 직렬로 결합된 다단 변압기를 이용하게 된다. 변압기 권선비의 적절한 선택을 통해 입력전압의 정수비 형태로 주어지는 출력전압레벨을 형성할 수 있다. 제안된 방식으로 11레벨, 29레벨 시작품을 제작하여 실험을 통해 타당성을 검증한다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2017

This paper aims to develop an SMPS topology for handling a high range of input voltages based on a DC-DC flyback converter circuit. For this purpose, 2 capacitors of the same specifications were serially connected on the input terminal side, with a flyback converter of the same circuit configuration serially connected to each of them, so as to achieve high input voltage and an effect of dividing input voltage. The serially connected flyback converters have the transformer turn ratio of 1:1, so that each coil is used for the winding of a single transformer, which is a characteristic of doubly-fed configuration and enables the correction of input capacitor voltage imbalance. In addition, a pulse transformer was designed and fabricated in a way that can achieve the isolation and noise robustness of the PWM output signal of the PWM controller that applies gate voltage to individual flyback converter switches. PSIM simulation was carried out to verify such a structure and confirm its feasibility, and a 100W class stack was fabricated and used to verify the feasibility of the proposed high voltage SMPS topology.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.553-563
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 UWB 대역에서 최적 임펄스 신호 전송을 위한 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나(Tapered Slot Antenna: TSA) 설계에 대해 연구하였다. UWB 대역에서 동작하는 TSA는 end-fire 특성을 갖는 광대역 안테나로, 펄스 전송을 위한 IR-UWB(Impulse Radio Ultra-Wide Band) 시스템에 적합하다. 지향성 특성을 갖는 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나는 UWB 대역에서 손실이 적고, 임펄스 전송시 최소 에러를 가져야 한다. 전송되는 펄스 왜곡을 최소로 하기 위해 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나 급전부를 구성하는 광대역 임피던스 변환기와 microstrip/slotline 천이부 설계에 대해 연구하였으며, 설계된 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나에 대한 펄스 충실도는 전자기파에 대한 시간 영역 분석이 가능한 CST를 이용한 FDTD(Finite-Difference Time-Domain) 시뮬레이션과 펄스 상관식 유도를 통해 계산하였으며, 제작된 안테나에 대해 두 안테나를 0.5 미터 이격시킨 두 안테나 사이에서 약 93.89 % 정도의 양호한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 chirp Z-변환 알고리즘을 유도를 통해, 나노초 이하의 펄스 신호에 대해 zoom-in 기능을 부여함으로써 펄스 신호에 대한 왜곡, 지연 및 분산 특성 등의 분석이 가능하다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1313-1315
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• 2002

This paper proposes an inverter for the grid-connected photovoltaic system based on the transformer-less inverter. This system consists of a high frequency inverter bridge, high frequency transformer, diode bridge rectifiers, a DC filter, a low frequency inverter bridge, and an AD filter. The high frequency inverter bridge switching at 20kHz is used to generate bipolar PWM pulse, which is subsequently rectified by diode bridge rectifiers to result in a full-wave rectified sine wave. Finally, it is unfolded by a low frequency inverter bridge to result in a 60Hz sine wave power output. In this paper, the control algorithm for synchronous current feedback control method and a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) method using DSP are described. And, the simulation and experimental results are shown to verify the validity of the proposed system.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1021-1023
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• 2002

최근 전력연구원에서 화력 발전소에 설치한 위상 제어 정류기 (PCR : Phasc Controled Rcctifier)에 설치된 동기 변압기 (Synchronous Transformer)의 절연 파괴에 의한 소손이 발생되어 발전소 운용에 신뢰성을 떨어뜨리고 있다. 본 논문에서는 800MW급 발전기용 다중화 정지형 여자시스템을 현장에 적용하여 설치, 운전중인 동기 변압기를 기준으로 1차측(고압측)이 절연 파괴후 소손된 변압기의 설계규격과 1차측과 2차측의 권선배치, 고조파 영향, 권선 굵기에 따른 단락 용량 기타 변압기 제작 방법에 대한 전반적 기술을 검토한 결과를 기술하고자 한다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2009년도 정기총회 및 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.143-145
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• 2009

The method for the current equalization of the rectifier diodes in LLC resonant converter is proposed. The method decreases the current difference between the rectifier diodes using the auxiliary winding of the transformer and asymmetrical pulse width modulation (APWM). The analytical reason of the current unbalance is investigated and the operation principle of the proposed method and APWM control loop are explained. The performance of the proposed method was verified on a 480-W, 400-V/24-V dc/dc converter.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.1812-1820
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• 2017

This paper analyzes a symmetric active cell balancer for a battery management system. The considered cell balancer uses a forward converter in which the circuit structure is symmetric. This cell-balancing method uses fewer switches and is simpler than the previously proposed active cell-balancing circuits. Active power switches of this cell-balancing circuit operate simultaneously with the same pulse width modulation signals. Therefore, this cell-balancing circuit requires less time to be balanced than a previous bidirectional-forward-converter-based cell balancer. This paper analyzes the operational principles and modes of this cell balancer with computer-based circuit simulation results as well as experimental results in which each unbalanced cell is equalized with this cell balancer. The maximum power transfer efficiency of the investigated cell balancer was 87.5% from the experimental results. In addition to the experimental and analytical results, this paper presents the performance of this symmetric active cell-balancing method.