• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07a
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• pp.240-242
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• 1994

Diode and thyristor-based bridge converter have been used for ac/dc conversion. Comparatively, diode bridges are simpler, more robust, less expensive and have a better power factor. However when voltage regulation is required, the thyristor-based phase-controlled converter have been used. But their use is limited by the low power factor and considerable harmonics in the input and output. An ac/dc power conversion scheme capable of fine output voltage control is investigated in this paper.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.305-312
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• 2010

The protection sequence of an AC/DC converter for an ITER PF coil system is developed in this study. Possible faults in the coil system are simulated and the results reflected in the design of a sequence to protect the coil and converter. The inductances of the current sharing reactors and thyristor numbers in parallel with the bridge arms are optimized with the designed protection sequence.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.1286-1288
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• 2000

Commutation failure can be considered as the severest abnormal operation of thyristor HVDC converter. During the failure, power conversion from DC to AC is stopped until the AC voltage get recovered. The process of thyristor converter is subscribed at normal and abnormal state, respectively. The detection and the protection for Cheju HVDC are explained by computer simulation results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.332-338
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• 2002

High current coil power supply for superconductivity coil of tokamak requires fast dynamics performance of di/dt and smooth change over of current direction. To meet the specification high performance DSP-based controller Is designed for 12-pulse thyristor dual converter with interphase transformer(IPT). Not only the total current of Y and $\Delta$ converter units but also the difference for those should be regulated fast and accurately. Proportional and integral controller is designed for current difference control and the controller output is compensated to $\Delta$ converter. The source voltage phase angle detection and gate pulse generation algorithm are implemented in software for higher reliability of current control. The current error Is reduced by selection of appropriate initial gating angle during the transient of change over of current direction between thyristor converters.

• 전기의세계
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.50-58
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• 1982

As a method for improving the power factor and the waveform of ac line current drawn by ac to dc converters, converters of pulse-width control type with forced commutation circuits have been developed in recent years. However, these converters have rather complex commutation circuits which contain auxiliary thyristors in addition to the main thyristors, and their performance is not satisfactory. This paper proposes a new pulse-width controlled ac to dc converter, and analyses its commutation mechanism and its input and output characteristics. The proposed converter circuit consists of a usual thyristor bridge circuit with series diodes to which reactors and diodes are added. This circuit dose not contain auxiliary thyristors, and in this sense it is simpler than the previous converter circuits of pulse-width control type. Since the main thyristors of the converter can be forcedly turned off several times in a half cycle of source voltage, a pulse-width modulation control is possible in order to improve the current waveform as well as the power factor on ac line side. As to dc output side it is shown that the adjustable range of output voltage is wide and the voltage regulation is good due to a rapid reversal of voltage across the commutating capacitors by LC resonance during commutation period. It is also shown that the regenerative operation of the converter is possible.

• JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL WORLD
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• no.10 s.70
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• pp.22-27
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• 1982

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.179-187
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• 1987

Dual converter using diode bridge and 6-thyristor is discussed and the characteristics of this converter depending on their switching mode is revealed. The switching modes of converter operation are identified on both ac and dc sides. The circuit has the ability to accept or deliver DC current without change of nominal DC voltage magnitude or polarity and has the capability not only to instantaneously change from motoring to generating and vice versa, but to operate cycloconverter.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.294-298
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• 2000

A new pulse multiplication technique based on 6-pulse thyristor converters is proposed in this paper. With the proposed technique 12-pulse 18-pulse and 24-pulse operations have been obtained both on the input current and on the output voltage. A control strategy over the whole range of phase angle is provided along with sophisticated input current and output voltage analysis. Experimental results from a laboratory prototype verify the proposed theory.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.87-88
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• 2014

The paper presents a novel phase locked loop(PLL) control method for robust three-phase thyristor dual converters under sag, notch, and phase loss conditions. This method is applied to three line to line voltages of grid to derive three phase angle errors from three separated single-phase PLLs. They can substitute for abnormal phase to guarantee the synchronization in the various grid fault conditions. The performance of novel PLL with moving average method is verified through simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.280-283
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• 2004

This paper discribes the design concept, fabrication process and measuring result of 2.5kV Gate Commutated Thyristor devices. Integrated gate commutated thyristors(IGCTs) is the new power semiconductor device used for high power inverter, converter, static var compensator(SVC) etc. Most of the ordinary GTOs(gate turn-off thyristors) are designed as non-punch-through(NPT) concept; i.e. the electric field is reduced to zero within the N-base region. In this paper, we propose transparent anode structure for fast turn-off characteristics. And also, to reach high breakdown voltage, we used 2-stage bevel structure. Bevel angle is very important for high power devices, such as thyristor structure devices. For cathode topology, we designed 430 cathode fingers. Each finger has designed $200{\mu}m$ width and $2600{\mu}m$ length. The breakdown voltage between cathode and anode contact of this fabricated GCT device is 2,715V.