• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.7
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• pp.937-943
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• 2012

Most of faults occurred in transmission lines are single-phase to ground faults and transient faults. Single-phase auto reclosing is an appropriate scheme to maintain the system stability and restore the system effectively when those faults are occurred. In single-phase auto reclosing scheme, the secondary arc is generated after faulted phase is tripped to eliminate the fault and it is sustained by the capacitive and inductive coupling to the healthy phases. It is important to reclose the faulted phase after fully extinction of secondary arc because of the damage applied to system. Therefore, it is necessary to research on the detection of secondary arc extinction to ensure high success rate of reclosing. In this step, firstly, the accurate modelling of secondary arc should be performed. In this paper, the modelling of secondary arc is performed by using EMTP-RV and the simulation results show that the implemented model is correct and effective.

• 전기의세계
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.59-65
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• 1977

A study on the decreasing method of secondary arc current on single phase reclosing. One of the major problem in case of using the single phase reclosing scheme for long distance UHV transmission line is the time required to deionize secondary arc current. This paper descritbes the way of inducing the formular of secondary arc current originated at the times of opening and closing the ground interrupting switch. The result was investigated by the method of numerical analysis and proved that the secondary arc current was decreasing sufficiently. Application of this method proposed by the authod makes it possible to deduce the dead time and to improve success-rate of reclosing.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.48 no.11
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• pp.1365-1373
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• 1999

In many countries including Korea, in order to transmit the more electric power, the higher transmission line voltage is inevitable. So, a rapid reclosing scheme is important for EHV/UHV transmission lines to ensure requirements for high reliability of main lines. A critical aspect of reclosing operation is the extinction of the secondary arc since it must extinguish before successful reclosure can occur. Therefore the accurate simulation techniques of arcing faults are of importance. And successful reclosing switching can be accomplished by adopting a proper method such as HSGS and hybrid scheme to reduce the secondary arc extinction time. First of all, this paper discusses a suggested arc model, which have time dependent resistance for primary arc and piecewise linear approximated arc model for secondary arc. And this simulation technique is applied to Korean 765 kV transmission lines. Also hybrid scheme is simulated and evaluated for the purpose of shortening dead time. For adaptive reclosing scheme, variable dead time control algorithm is suggested. Two kinds of algorithm are tested. One is max tracking algorithm and the other is rms tracking algorithm. According to simulation results, rms tracking has less errors than max tracking. Therefore rms tracking is applied to Korean 765 kV transmission lines with hybrid scheme.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11b
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• pp.36-38
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• 2004

In many countries, including Korea, in order to transmit the more electric power, the higher transmission line voltage is inevitable. So, a rapid reclosing scheme is important for UHV transmission lines to ensure requirements for high reliability of main lines. But, because of the high voltage and long span of UHV lines, the secondary arc current flows across the fault point even after the interruption of the fault current. i.e. A critical aspect of reclosing operation is the extinction of the secondary arc since it must extinguish before successful reclosure can occur. In Korea transmission lines, it is scheduled to energize 765kV single transmission line(79km) between Sin-Ansung S/S and Sin-Gapyeong S/S at June 2006. Therefore this paper analyzes characteristics of the secondary arc extinction on 765kV single transmission line using EMTP. Simulation results shows that the average value of the secondary arc is $30A_{rms}$ and the auto-extinction time of it is longer at closer point to Sin-Gapyeong S/S.

• 전기의세계
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.401-409
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• 1980

This paper deals with the implementation of forced reclosing the transmission line. Because the ground circuit breaker method decrease the secondary arc current sufficiently, the reclosing time can be reduced. As the secondary arc current is large and its residual time is long in UHV transmission line, this method is more effective in that system. The resistance of ground circuit breaker which minimize the secondary arc current is determined according to the system voltage and the length of transmission line.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07c
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• pp.1217-1219
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• 1998

For the improvement of an adaptive SPAR(Single-Phase Auto-Reclosure) and novel protection schemes, it is important to simulate arc faults. But, it is difficult to reproduce the real arc behaviour, i.e. the extinction phenomenon exactly by computer simulations due to extremely random behavior of secondary arc. This paper proposes a new computer modeling techniques for the primary and the secondary arc separately, which can be implemented with EMTP MODELS routine, and the performance of the proposed model is simulated on a typical 154 [kV] korean transmission line system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07c
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• pp.880-882
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• 1997

The secondary arcing phenomenon can be hardly modeled for computer simulation due to its particularly-nonlinear characteristics. This paper describes a new computer modeling technique for the secondary arc which can be implemented with the EMTP MODELS. The computer model proposed is based on realistic arc conduction behaviors through newly designed variable resistor modules which can be supported in the EMTP. In this Paper, for the variable resister modules, a new variable arc resistance formula is proposed. Simulation results using the proposed technique are compared with some previous studies.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.12-18
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• 1985

In general the impulse sound sources of underwater generated by electric arc discharge had used static energy of the charged capacitors. The author proposed an underwater arc discharge sound source using secondary voltage of high voltage transformer without capacitors. The arc discharge device was composed of a high voltage transformer and a switching system. The impulse current in the primary turn of the high voltage transformer is controlled by the switching system and inductive current of the secondary turn in the high voltage transformer is used in making impulsive arc discharge. A series of experiment have been carried out to observe the acoustic characteristics of the impulse sound source generated by the arc discharge. The results obtained were as follows: 1. Secondary current at the time of arc discharge keeps after ohm's law in the beginning and the maximum current flows out as soon as arc discharge breaks out. 2. A time difference between a start of applied current and a generation of arc discharge sound is the 3msec and it is generated arc sound when breaking down electric insulation at maximum voltage. 3. The sharper the end of electrodes and the higher the secondary voltage, the higher the sound pressure level. 4. Arc discharge sound was generated even at the distance of 100cm between electrodes and was stably reproductive at the gap of 1cm to 100cm. 5. Electric arc discharge sound wave is a shock wave of pulse-width of 0.15msec and spectral distribution of it is plenty of low frequency components less than 10 KHz.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1999.08a
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• pp.132-133
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• 1999

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.340_341
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• 2009

This paper suggests a detection scheme of a secondary arc extinction using the peak value of a fault voltage estimated by correlation algorithms. The system implemented in this paper is based on a Korean 765 kV system and the suggested proposed scheme is tested on the system. The performance of the method is analyzed by using Electro-Magnetic Transients Program (EMTP)/ATPDraw.