• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics Conference
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• 2003.02a
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• pp.242-245
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• 2003

We investigated the quench characteristics of thin film type SFCLs with shunt layers of various thickness. The SFCLs ware based on 2 inch diameter YBa$_2$Cu$_3$3O$_{7}$ thin films coated in-situ with a gold shunt layer. The shunt layer thickness was varied by Ar ion milling. The limiters were tested with simulated fault currents at various source voltages. The thinner the shunt layer was, the slower was the rise of SFCL temperatures. This means SFCLs of thinner shunt layers had higher voltage ratings. The voltage rating was approximately inversely proportional to the square root of the shunt layer thickness. This result could be understood through the concept of heat balance.e.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.226-233
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• 2005

As the power demand has been increasing, a fault current problem is becoming more serious in real power system. Various ways like bus-split operation, transmission line open operation, are used in Korean power system for solving the problem. In this time, superconducting FCL(Fault Current Limiter) has been developed as a vary attractive alternative since HTS(High Temperature Superconductivity) was discovered. Korea, a project developing superconducting FCL to apply to 154kV transmission system is proceeding. Therefore, a power system analysis for SFCL application to power system is necessary, This paper presents the determination of quenching resistance and the selection of optimal cites when 154kV HTS-FCL is applied to Korean power system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.337-342
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• 2000

We fabricated resistive superconducting fault current limiters based on YB $a_{2}$/C $u_{3}$/ $O_{7}$ thin films and investigated their quench propagation characteristics. The YB $a_{2}$/C $u_{3}$/ $O_{7}$ films was coated with a gold layer and patterned into 1 mm wide meander lines by photolithography. The quench was concluded to start locally and propagates until completed. The quench propagation characteristics were explained based on the heat transfer within the film as well as between the film and the surrounding liquid nitrogen. The quench completion time depended strongly on potential fault current amplitude and not significantly on fault angle which indicates that the quench propagation speed is affected more by heat dissipation rate than by fault current increase rate. The quench completion time was 1 msec at the fault current of 65 $A_{peak/{\ak}}$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.16-19
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• 2003

YBCO film을 이용하여 2 stripe-meander 형태의 초전도 한류기를 제작하고 시험하였다. 초전도 film의 hot spot에 의해 발생하는 열을 분산시키기 위해 gold shunt layer를 입혔다. 사고각 $0^{\circ}$에서 사고발생 후 최초 quench 전류값은 $9.56A_{peak}$이었고 약 0.63 msec동안 fast quench 가 진행되고 이후에는 gold층의 열발생에 의한 저항증가가 약 3주기동안 진행된 후 안정되었다. 사고각 $45^{\circ}$와 $90^{\circ}$ 에서는 전류가 상승하는 도중 혹은 최고지점에서 사고가 발생했기 때문에 fast quench time이 각각 0.56 msec와 0.26msec를 보였다. 초전도 한류기를 적용하였을 때 사고전류는 사고직후 약 5배, 3주기후에는 약 8.5배까지 효과적으로 제한함을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07c
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• pp.972-974
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• 1997

Design & Operation of power system for meeting increase of electric Power demand is becoming more difficult and complex. One of reasons is increase of fault current. As one of the most effective methods for suppressing the fault current installation of SFCL is expected. These paper describes a method of fault analyses of power system with SFCLs, and also discusses determination of specification of SFCLs, effects of limiting the fault current due to SFCLs by use of the model system of two - bus electric power system with single transmission lines.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.925-927
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• 2000

We fabricated a resistive superconducting fault current limiter of meander type based on a YBCO film. In order to disperse the heat generated at hot spots in the YBCO film the film was coated with a gold shunt layer. When diodes were inserted in the parallel circuit to restrict the temperature increase in the SFCL element by reducing power supply cycles, the voltage could be increased to $\sqrt{2}$ times with the same quench resistance at a half and full cycles.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.230-233
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• 2003

This paper deals with the fabrication of high temperature superconducting(HTS) solenoid for DC reactor of 6.6㎸/200A inductive superconducting fault current limiter(SFCL). The winding machine which is suitable to wind HTS wire was manufactured. The proper inductance was calculated by circuit simulation and G10-FRP bobbin was fabricated with this inductance, HTS solenoid was wound by using the winding machine. The V-I characteristic of completed DC reactor in sub-cooled nitrogen(65K) was measured. The full quench current of this magnet is about 490A.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.39-43
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• 2019

The breaking of a circuit in DC grid could pose a challenge because of the absence of zero-crossing instant for both current and voltage when a fault occurs. An additional fault current limiting function will be very helpful for reducing the burden of the DC circuit breaker by limiting the fault current to a reasonable value. In this paper, we studied the overcurrent characteristics of several HTS conductors so that we could use the selected conductors for the basic design work of a resistive type fault current limiting module as a part of the circuit breaking system. According to the short-circuit test results, we suggested and compared two different basic design parameters of the HTS fault current limiting module, which will be connected in series to the DC circuit breaker.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.85-88
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• 1999

We fabricated resistive superconducting fault current lmiters based on YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7}$ thin films and investigated their quench propagation characteristics. The YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7}$ film was coated with a gold layer and patterned into 1 mm wide meander lines by photolithography. The limiters were tested with simulated fault currents of various fault angles and amplitudes. The quench propagation characteristics were explained based on the heat transfer within the film as well as between the film and the surrounding liquid nitrogen. The quench completion time strongly depended on the potential fault current. It was 1 msec at the peak fault current of 76 A/peak/ and corresponding quench propagation speed was 43 m/sec (film cross section: 4 x 10$^{-6}$ $\textrm{cm}^2$).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.246-247
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• 2007

최근 KEPRI-LSIS가 공동 개발한 하이브리드형 초전도 한류기 동작 시, 사고 검출을 담당하는 초전도체의 최적 설계에 적용하기 위하여 Au/YBCO 박막의 ��치 회복 특성을 조사하였다. $600\;V_{rms}$, 3 ms의 사고가 초전도 박막에 인가되었을 때, ��치가 종료된 이후 초전도성을 회복하기 위해 142 ms의 시간이 소요되었다. 또한 인가 시간이 증가함에 따라 소요 시간도 비례하여 증가하여 4 ms 동안 인가되었을 때, ��치 회복 시간은 272 ms로 측정되었다.