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The Analysis of Temperature and Electric Field due to Contact Failure in Power Substation (수변전설비에서 접점 불량에 따른 열 및 전계 분포 해석)

  • Kim, Ki-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.307-311
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    • 2016
  • Although there are existing Residual Current Protective Device (RCD) including detect electric leakage and elements such as short circuit and surge, the occurrence of incidents caused by electric faults, including fire, are still constant. The purpose of this study is to analyze the causes of accidents through the electric field distribution in the interpretation of the fault contact breaker. Simulation results by the arc fault has shown the convergence of temperature and electric field to the defect. Through their simulation results, the main cause of erosion phenomena in circuit breaker bar is the electric arc by concentration of electric field not due to dissolve by temperature.

Introduction of the Intelligent Health Surveillance System for Urban Transit Station (도시철도 정거장의 종합 건전성 감시시스템 개발방향)

  • Shin, Jeong-Ryol;Ahn, Tae-Ki;Park, Kee-Jun;Kim, Jin-Ho;Lee, Woo-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.1248-1253
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    • 2007
  • Urban transit or subway stations generally service for a long period of several decades. And, the urban transit or subway is public transportation which lots of people takes every day. During the service time, they are inevitably damaged from environmental corrosion, material aging, fatigue, and the coupling effects with long-term loads and extreme loads. The included damage accumulates and performance degenerates due to the above factors. They would inevitably reduce the resisting capacity of station against the disaster; even they result in collapse with the structural failure under extreme loads. And, if disaster such as earthquake, fire, etc. happens, it causes huge property damage and threatens the human lives. Because of these above reasons, the intelligent health surveillance system should be researched and developed for ensuring the safety of station. In this paper, the research plans of the intelligent health surveillance system of urban transit station are presented. And also, the development or establishment directions of this system are suggested.

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Study on the Performance Deterioration of Erosion-corrosion Damaged Automotive Water Pump (침식 마모 손상된 차량용 워터펌프의 성능저하 연구)

  • Jeon, Seung-Won;Park, Chan-Seong;Kim, Yoon-Ho;Lee, Kyu-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2009
  • A flow analysis for the erosion-corrosion damaged automotive water pump which causes vehicle fire is numerically performed using the CFX program, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. The blade bending deformation and the blade clearance enlargement are considered in the analysis of performance reduction. For the cavitation analysis, the homogeneous multi phase model is adopted using the Ralyleigh-Plesset model for the rate equation controlling vapor generation and condensation.

A Study on the Algorithm for Fault Discrimination in Transmission Lines using Neural Network and the Variation of Fault Currents (신경회로망과 고장전류의 변화를 이용한 고장판별 알고리즘에 관한 연구)

  • Yeo, Sang-Min;Kim, Cheol-Hwan
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.49 no.8
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    • pp.405-411
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    • 2000
  • When faults occur in transmission lines, the classification of faults is very important. If the fault is HIF(High Impedance Fault), it cannot be detected or removed by conventional overcurrent relays (OCRs), and results in fire hazards and causes damages in electrical equipment or personal threat. The fast discrimination of fault needs to effective protection and treatment and is important problem for power system protection. This paper propolsed the fault detection and discrimination algorithm for LIFs(Low Impedance Faults) and HIFs(High Impedance Faults). This algorithm uses artificial neural networks and variation of 3-phase maximum currents per period while faults. A double lines-to-ground and line-to-line faults can be detected using Neural Network. Also, the other faults can be detected using the value of variation of maximum current. Test results show that the proposed algorithms discriminate LIFs and HIFs accurately within a half cycle.

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Interruption Controller Design of Arc current With Custom Electric Source (아크의 방전에 따른 전기안전에 미치는 영향)

  • Ban, Gi-Jong;Lim, Seung-Ha;Won, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.1283-1286
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    • 2005
  • Arc Fault Current is an electric discharge which is occurred in two opposite electrode. In this paper, arc current control algorithm is designed for the interruption of arc fault current which is occurred in the local electric network. This arc is one of the main causes of electric fire. Arc fault in electrical network has the characteristics of low current, high impedance and high frequency. Conventional arc current controller does not have the arc current interrupt function. Hence, Controller of arc current is designed for the interruption of arc fault current which has the modified arc characteristics.

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A Case Study of Desulphurization by Limestone Adsorbent in an Industrial CFBC Boiler

  • Park, Young-Goo;Kim, Seung-Ho;Jo, Young-Min
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.21 no.E2
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    • pp.67-74
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    • 2005
  • Domestic anthracite contains a large amount of fine particles, which causes to fire the back side of the boiler and to form the clinker deteriorating the combustion efficiency. At this time, the fine limestone adsorbents for a desulphurization agent may be used to facilitate an aggravation of the boiler, so that fine mode of limestone (<0.1mm) has been used no more than $25\%$ in local power stations of Korea. The present test carried out with an in-situ boiler, however, showed that higher content $(up\;to\;50\%)$ of fine limestone particles did not entail any mal-function. In addition, the desulphurization was found to be as good as the old mode of limestone adsorbents.

A Study on Application for Y-Tz Transformer Winding Method to Decrease the Current Unbalance on the Source Side (전원측 전류불평형 감소를 위한 변압기 Y-Tz 결선방식 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-Eun;Song, Young-Joo;Choi, Hong-Kyoo;Kim, Tae-Hoon;Kim, In-Tae
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.63 no.9
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    • pp.1206-1211
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    • 2014
  • Most LV customers have been applying three-phase four-wire electric distribution system which supplies 1-phase and 3-phase load concurrently. Due to its structural simplicity, This system is easy to run. But it can also cause many problems from the unbalance, such as reduced output, increased loss etc. Also the unbalance in the load side causes the unbalance in the source side; it may lower the stability of the whole power system. In this paper, we propose the Y-Tz transformer winding method to reduce the current unbalance in the source side. Efficiency of this method was proven through the simulation and verification experiment.

A Scheme of Facility Construction for Evaluation of Safety on the Railway (철도 안전성 평가를 위한 시험설비 구축 방안)

  • Choi, Kyung-Jin;Kim, Sang-Ahm;Cho, Youn-Ok;Kim, Yun-Mi
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.1858-1863
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    • 2007
  • Railway systems are one of the best mass transit systems and many people have prevented incidents/accidents and reduced fatalities remarkably. Especially we have tried analyzing and finding the measures to prevent catastrophic accidents like train collision, derailment and fire because of their severities. It is important to assess the safety performances of railway systems like crash-worthiness analysis, body, derailment affecting factor analysis and so on for reducing and finding out the reasonable causes of disastrous accidents. In this paper the refined top-level system requirements to build-up national infra for assessing railway safety performance and the procedures and methodology for reviewing, verifying and validating infra requirements are explained. Basically the authors have used system engineering processes to analyze and verify the requirements and installation procedures and have tried maximizing the practicality of the various safety assessment systems.

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A Study of Arc Detection at DC Power System (직류 시스템에서의 아크 검출에 관한 연구)

  • Ban, Gi-Jong;Kim, Jin-Woo;Won, Young-Jin;Lim, Sung-Ha
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.461-462
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    • 2007
  • DC Arc is an electric discharge which is occurred in two oppolsite electrode when system operating with DC current appliance. In this paper, DC arc detection system is designed for the display of DC arc fault current which is occurred in the local electric network with DC Power. This DC arc is one of the main causes of electric fire of dc system. Arc fault in electrical network has the characteristics of low current, high impedance and low frequency. DC Arc current detection device is designed for the display of arc fault current which has the modified arc characteristics.

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A Study on Welding Performance Improvement in $CO_2$ Inverter Arc Welding Machine by Constant Wire Feeding Rate Control ($CO_2$ 인버터 아크용접기의 송급속도 제어에 의한 용접성능향상에 관한 연구)

  • 김길남;고재석;채영민;원충연;김규식;목형수;최규하
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 1999.07a
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    • pp.563-568
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    • 1999
  • Generally the control method of wire feeding motor in welding machine has been used full-wave phase control method. The fire-angle control generates low frequency speed ripple, and it causes the output current ripple. So it results in the variation of welding condition and low welding performances such as spatter generation and bead state. For the purpose of welding performances improvement by speed controller in wire feeding motor, in this paper the constant speed control method for welding machine is proposed. The proposed system is composed of speed control loop and current control loop. As a result of experiment by using proposed constant wire feed experiment by using proposed constant wire feed speed controller, the output voltage and current waveform and metal transfer are maintained stably. And moreover the number of instantaneous short circuit occurrence is reduced remarkably.

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