• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.113-118
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• 2009

Grounding systems set the reference voltage level of electric circuits and suppress the Ground Potential Rise (GPR) by flowing fault currents to the ground safely. There are several parameters which evaluate the performance of grounding systems as ground resistance, touch voltage and step voltage. The touch and step voltages, which is called "risk voltage", are especially important to ensure the safety of human body. This paper dealt with the influence of current sources with the different frequency components on the touch and the step voltages. Three types of current sources as commercial frequency, square wave, and surge with the fast risetime of $50\;ns{\sim}500\;ns$ were used to analyze the risk voltages in a grounding system. The risk voltages showed remarkable difference in the same current amplitude depending on the current sources, and increased linearly with the current amplitude in the same current source. From the experimental results, it was confirmed that the risk voltages can be evaluated by a small current application in large-scale grounding systems and the possible largest risk voltage can be calculated by a surge current with the risetime of 200 ns or a current source with the same frequency component as the surge current.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.39-45
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• 2015

This paper deals with development of integrity evaluation instrument for the power line surge protective device. A reliable power supply is an essential element in the developed information and communication society by highly advances in IT technology. However, the lightning incidence also increased with the recent extreme weather events. In Korea, in order to protect the electrical system from lightning surge, SPD(Surge Protective Device) has been used for these past 30 years. However, the method of diagnosing the safety of the SPD in the industry is insufficient. In this paper, SPD integrity evaluation system was composed of a variable DC power source unit, voltage-current sensor and the embedded controller. In order to measure V-I characteristics of MOV, 3 type samples were degraded by impulse current generator. After impulse tests, the varistor voltage of all samples and nonlinearity coefficient were decreased. It confirmed the utility of the developed equipment by this experimental test and the reliability of SPD is expected for surge accident prevention when applied to industrial plant.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07e
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• pp.1675-1677
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• 1998

It is currently increasing to use surge protection devices in the protection of various electronic circuits from the transient overvoltages such as lightning strikes and switching surges. For this reason, the simulation methods, which can easily predict the protection performance of the devices, are strongly required in order to design the adequate surge protection circuits in lightning surge cut-off performance and economic aspects. This paper deals with ZnO varistor modeling method for designing a surge protection circuit and suggests the Pspice simulation model which takes the characteristic of varying clamping voltage into consideration during the time-to-crest, in range of $8{\sim}30{\mu}s$, of surge current applied to a ZnO varistor. The ZnO varistor Pspice simulation data introduced in this paper has produced almost same values as the measured results experimentally.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.05b
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• pp.175-179
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• 2005

The main objective of this paper is to module design and pressure relief test a new type of polymer gapless surge arrester for power distribution line. Metal oxide surge arrester for most electric power system applications, power distribution line and electric train are now being used extensively to protect overvoltage due to lightning. Surge arresters with porcelain housing must not have explosive breakage of the housing to minimize damage to other equipment when subjected to internal high short circuit current. When breakdown of gapless elements in a surge arrester occurs due to flashover, fault short current flows through the arrester and internal pressure of the arrester rises. The pressure rise can usually be limited by fitting a pressure relief diaphragm and transferring the arc from the inside to the outside of the housing. However, there is possibility of porcelain fragmentation caused by the thermal shock, pressure rise, etc. Non-fragmenting of the housing is the most desired way to prevent damage to other equipment. The pressure change which is occurred by flashover become discharge energy. This discharge energy raises to damage arrester housing and arrester housing is dispersed as small fragment. Therefore, the pressure relief design is requested to obstruct housing dispersion.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.212-216
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• 2000

ZnO varistors for distribution surge arrester (18kV, 5kA) were developed and tested microstructure and electrical characteristics. Microstructure of ZnO varistor was consisted of ZnO grain, spinel phase and Bi-rich phase. Average grain size of ZnO varistor was $\mu\textrm{m}$ Reference voltage and lightning impulse residual voltage of ZnO varistor exhibited a good haracteristics above 5.5kV and below 11.56kV, respectively. Consequently, discharge capacity which is the most important characteristics of ZnO varistor for surge arrester exhibited excellent properties above 70kA at twice high-current impulse test. Moreover, variation rate of reference voltage and lightning impulse residual voltage showed below 5% and 2% after high-current impulse test, respectively. Leakage current and watt loss of ZnO varistor will not increase during accelerated aging test at stress condition, such as 3.213kV/$115^{\circ}C$/1000h.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.652-659
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• 2008

The nonlinear electrical properties and aging characteristics against surge stress of ZPCCL-based varistors were investigated for different sintering temperatures of the range $1240-1300^{\circ}C$. As the sintering temperature increased, the varistor voltage decreased from 732.2 to 53.8 V/mm, the nonlinear exponent decreased from 58.5 to 4.1, and the leakage current increased from $0.38{\mu}A$ to $46.5{\mu}A$. The varistors sintered at $1250^{\circ}C$ and $1260^{\circ}C$ exhibited the high stability against multiple surge, $150A/cm^2(8{\times}20{\mu}s)$. On the whole, the variation rate of electrical characteristics against impulse current stress was gradually increased in order of varistor voltage$\rightarrow$nonlinear exponent$\rightarrow$dissipation facto$\rightarrow$leakage current.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2183-2184
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• 2006

전력계통의 과도현상 분석용으로 개발된 수치계산 프로그램인 EMTP ( Electromagnetic Transient Program)를 사용하여 건물내에 낙뢰에 의한 뇌서지가 침입했을 때 건물 전체에 surge current가 어떻게 확산되어 가는지를 분석해 본다. 이러한 현상을 분석하기 위해서 건물의 등가회로를 ${\pi}$-회로로 구현하고, ANSI 규격에 맞는 뇌서지를 건물에 유입시켜서 그에 따른 건물 내부의 current 분포를 알아본다. 그리고, 건물 체적을 변화시켜 가면서 뇌 서지가 건물 내부의 전기기기에 미치는 영향을 해석해 본다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.551-552
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• 2006

전력계통의 과도현상 분석용으로 개발된 수치계산 프로그램인 EMTP(Electromagnetic Transient Program)를 사용하여 건물내에 낙뢰에 의한 뇌서지가 침입했을 때 건물 전체에 surge current가 어떻게 확산되어 가는지를 분석해 본다. 이러한 현상을 분석하기 위해서 건물의 등가회로를 ${\pi}$-회로로 구현하고, ANSl 규격에 맞는 뇌서지를 건물에 유입시켜서 그에 따른 건물 내부의 current 분포를 알아본다. 그리고, 건물 체적을 변화시켜 가면서 뇌 서지가 건물 내부의 전기기기에 미치는 영향을 해석해 본다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.1217-1218
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• 2006

전력계통의 과도현상 분석용으로 개발된 수치계산 프로그램인 EMTP(Electromagnetic Transient Program)를 사용하여 건물내에 낙뢰에 의한 뇌서지가 침입했을 때 건물 전체에 surge current가 어떻게 확산되어 가는지를 분석해 본다. 이러한 현상을 분석하기 위해서 건물의 등가회로를 $\pi$-회로로 구현하고 ANSI 규격에 맞는 뇌서지를 건물에 유입시켜서 그에 따른 건물 내부의 current 분포를 알아본다. 그리고, 건물 체적을 변화시켜가면서 뇌 서지가 건물 내부의 전기기기에 미치는 영향을 해석해 본다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.10
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• pp.1861-1868
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• 2009

A ground electrode subjected to lightning surge current shows the transient impedance behaviors. The ground electrode for protection against lightning should be evaluated in view of the transient grounding impedance and conventional grounding impedance, not ground resistance. The transient impedance characteristics of ground electrodes are influenced by the shape of ground electrode and the soil characteristics, as well as the waveform of lightning surge current. In order to propose a simulation method of analyzing the transient impedance characteristics of the grounding system in practical use, this paper suggests a theoretical analysis method of distributed parameter circuit model to simulate the transient impedance characteristics of counterpoise subjected to lightning surge current. EMTP and Matlab programs were employed to compute the transient grounding impedances of three counterpoises with different lengths. As a consequence, the simulated results using the proposed distributed parameter circuit model are in good agreement with the measured results.