• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.239-254
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• 2017

The world began to search for new energy sources with increasing energy demand. Renewable energy sources are as hydropower important for alternative energy. Countries with high hydroelectric potentials continue to work to utilize hydroelectric power plants in the most efficient way. Pumped storage hydropower plants are an important investment to meet the growing energy needs at peak times and to store energy. Although it produces energy in many countries, pumped storage hydropower plants have not begun to be built in Turkey which has high hydroelectric potential. A new era will be opened for energy production in Turkey where a large number of pumped storage hydropower plants projects are in study phase with the construction of pumped storage hydropower plants and first nuclear power plant.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.209-217
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• 2017

The paper presents two novel concepts of increasing the energy storage capacity at pumped storage power plants, both existing and new projects. The concepts utilize compressed air as a working medium to displace water from a volume originally not available for storage. The concepts are likely to give additional storage volume at a low cost, however, much development and many investigations are needed before the concepts can be shown to be technical and economical feasible solutions for energy storage. The concepts are disclosed so that researchers and utilities can start those investigations, hopefully helping the green transition by providing highly valuable energy storage for a future renewable energy having a much higher share of renewable energies than the current systems.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2015년도 제46회 하계학술대회
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• pp.77-78
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• 2015

For the smooth operation and efficient management of pumped storage power plants, we should be understand a generator, turbine, exciter, governor, and stabilizer and prepare an abnormal accident through an accident simulation by software such as PSCAD, PSS/E. This paper investigates configuration of the generator system of ${\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}$ pumped storage power plant. And describes the modeling and fault simulation studies using PSCAD.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.125-130
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• 2006

양수발전소는 여러 발전소에서 생산되는 전력에너지를 심야시간에 남을 경우 잉여분의 전기를 이용하여 저지대의 물을 양수하여 고지대로 이동하여 필요시 물의 낙차 압력을 이용하여 전기를 재생산하는 발전 설비이다. 전국의 양수발전소는 "전원개발에 의한 특례법 제6조"로 인한 건축물대장에 미 등재로 인하여 건축물이 아닌 구조물로 분류되어 인가와 완공까지 소방행정의 참여가 배제되어 소방시설허가가 필요치 않게 되어 왔다. 따라서 향후 전국에 운영 및 시설 중에 있는 양수발전소에 유사한 화재로 인하여 똑같은 피해가 반복되지 않도록 하기 위하여 "전원 개발에 의한 특례법 제6조"의 적용에 따른 문제점과 시설의 보완 그리고 안전관리의 문제점을 개선하여 유사 피해를 최대한 막고자 한다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제63권7호
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• pp.867-874
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• 2014

The pumped storage power plants have excellent load following characteristics. It can also be committed quickly for synchronous reserve when it is in the generating mode because it can readily increase its generating power and, consequently, increases the overall system reliability. There are strong incentives for standing the system reliability. Additionally, $CO_2$ emission can be typically impacted due to operation of pumped generators. The increase or decrease of $CO_2$ depends on the generation mix. This paper proposes evaluation of reliability, economy and environment of power system considering pumped generator. This paper describes three case studies of the reliability and economy and environment according to capacity factor and storage capacity of pumped generators. The probabilistic production simulation model is used in this paper. The practicality and effectiveness of the proposed approach are demonstrated by simulation studies for a real size power system model on the $5^{th}$ power plan in Korea.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제88권6호
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• pp.569-581
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• 2023

This paper introduces a system to detect and diagnose anomalies in pumped storage hydropower plants. We collect data from various types of sensors, including those monitoring temperature, vibration, and power. The data are classified according to the operation modes (pump and turbine operation modes) and normalized to remove the influence of the external environment. To detect anomalies and diagnose their types, we adopt a multivariate normal distribution analysis by learning the distribution of the normal data. The feasibility of the proposed system is evaluated using actual monitoring data of a pumped storage hydropower plant. The proposed system can be used to implement condition monitoring systems for other plants through modifications.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권9호
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• pp.1331-1338
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• 2010

최근 심야 전기 수요의 증가로 인해 양수 발전 설비의 이용률이 감소하고 있다. 이러한 이용률 감소는 양수 발전 설비를 운용/정비하는 측면에서 경제성을 향상시킬 필요성을 증가시킨다. 양수 발전 설비의 경제성 향상을 위해서는 예방점검 주기, 특히 분해점검 주기를 연장하여야 한다. 그러나, 무조건적인 연장은 불충분한 정비에 기인하는 예기치 못하는 파손을 발생시킬 수 있기 때문에 수행될 수 없다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 양수 발전 설비의 특성을 고려하고 기존 신뢰도 연구들을 검토하여 신뢰도와 경제성을 모두 고려하는 예방점검 주기 최적화 방법론을 제안한다. 최종적으로 실제 양수 발전 설비에 제안된 방법론을 국내 양수발전소에 적용하여 연장된 최적화 분해 점검 주기를 도출한다.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.334-345
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• 2009

Pumped storage power plants are playing a significant role in the contribution to the stabilization of an electrical grid, above all by stable operation and fast reaction to sudden load respectively frequency changes. Optimized efficiency and smooth running characteristics both in pump and turbine operation, improved stability for synchronization in turbine mode, load control in pump mode operation and also short reaction times may be achieved using adjustable speed power units. Such variable speed power plants are applicable for high variations of head (e.g. important for low head pump-turbine projects). Due to the rapid development of power semiconductors and frequency converter technology, feasible solutions can be provided even for large hydro power units. Suitable control strategies as well as clear design criteria contribute significantly to the optimal usage of the pump turbine and motor-generators. The SIMSEN tool for dynamic simulations has been used for comparative investigations of different configurations regarding the power converter topology, types of semiconductors and types of motor-generators including the coupling to the hydraulic system. A brief overview of the advantages & disadvantages of the different solutions can also be found in this paper. Using this approach, a customized solution minimizing cost and exploiting the maximum usage of the pump-turbine unit can be developed in the planning stage of new and modernization pump storage projects.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.39-45
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• 1999

Pumped-storage power plants pumps the water from the lower reservoir to the upper reservoir using the extra electric power at night and generates electric power in the daytime. Currently it tends to be a high-head large-capacity machine. In this paper, we developed the computer programs for vibration analysis of the pump/turbine and generator/motor rotor system considering electromagnetic force, hydrodynamic unbalance force, dynamic characteristics of guide bearings and add mass of water. This program was verified by applying it to the real model and calculating the critical speed, natural mode and unbalance response.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.133-142
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• 2023

The large process plant is currently implementing predictive maintenance technology to transition from the traditional Time-Based Maintenance (TBM) approach to the Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) approach in order to improve equipment maintenance and productivity. The traditional techniques for predictive maintenance involved managing upper/lower thresholds (Set-Point) of equipment signals or identifying anomalies through control charts. Recently, with the development of techniques for big analysis, machine learning-based AAKR (Auto-Associative Kernel Regression) and deep learning-based VAE (Variation Auto-Encoder) techniques are being actively applied for predictive maintenance. However, this predictive maintenance techniques is only effective during steady-state operation of plant equipment, and it is difficult to apply them during start-up and shutdown periods when rises or falls. In addition, unlike processes such as nuclear and thermal power plants, which operate for hundreds of days after a single start-up, because the pumped power plant involves repeated start-ups and shutdowns 4-5 times a day, it is needed the prediction and alarm algorithm suitable for its characteristics. In this study, we aim to propose an approach to apply the optimal predictive alarm algorithm that is suitable for the characteristics of Pumped Storage Power Plant(PSPP) facilities to the system by analyzing the predictive maintenance techniques used in existing nuclear and coal power plants.