• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.103-104
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• 2008

this paper describes the electric field distribution analysis along a shield gap inner vacuum interrupter(VI). The equipotential line and electric field and field vector in a VI are analysed by a finite element method and experiment at shield gap. in result, The equipotential line and electric field distribution was affected to VI shield gap. The reason is as it gets distortion of equipotential line done. finally, this paper recognized whether or not affected, and proposed gap with the most suitable shield length and an external insulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2008

this paper describes the electric field distribution interpretation along a shield form inner vacuum interrupter(VI). The equipotential line and electric field in a VI are analysed by a finite element method at various shield form. in result, The electric potentials of end shield form was increased or decreased because it was various the length of shield and between external insulation and source area or fix._end shield. finally shield is how to electric field affect, and advance, and will achieve the optimum design of VI inside shield.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.126-126
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• 2010

대표적인 친환경 차단부로 Vacuum Interrupter(VI)를 에폭시 수지로 성형한 Embedded VI 의 적용이 확대되고 있다. 이러한 Embedded VI의 제작에 있어, 기존에는 대부분 VI의 Ceramic 표면과 에폭시 성형층의 계면에 고무재질의 완충층을 적용하는 방식으로 제작되었다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 완충층 형성시 발생되는 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 VI외부에 추가적인 완충층을 형성하지 않고, 에폭시 수지를 성형하는 Direct Molding 방안을 제시하고. VI표면과 에폭시간에 화학적 결합 메커니즘을 도출하여 Direct Molding 을 적용한 Embedded VI의 제작기술을 개발하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.333-341
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• 2009

In this paper arc behavior in spiral type vacuum interrupter(VI) was analyzed by means of arc images, arc voltages and finite element method(FEM). As a result of experiment, the difference of arc voltage was observed under different twisting angles. It was found that the reason of the difference was the difference of arc resistance from simultaneous analysis of arc images and arc voltages. and the difference of arc resistance was explained by Lorentz force calculation with FEM. And the results of calculation were sufficient to explain the experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1368-1369
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• 2008

This paper describes the electric field distribution analysis along a shield form inner vacuum interrupter(VI). The equipotential line and electric field and field vector in a VI are analysed by a finite element method at various shield form. in result, The equipotential line and electric field distribution was affected to VI shield gap. The reason is as it gets distortion of equipotential line done. finally, this paper recognized whether or not affected, and proposed gap with the most suitable shield length and an external insulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1197-1198
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• 2008

There have been few papers using finite element method(FEM) to analyze arc driving force for spiral type vacuum interrupter electrode up to date while there have been many papers dealing with AMF type electrode by means of FEM. AMF analysis is very important in AMF type electrode because it has proportional relation with effective area which means the area of magnetic flux density above critical magnetic flux density to diffuse arc. In the same manner, arc driving force is an important factor to drive arc by Lorentz force. In this paper two models were calculated and compared by using commercial FEM software Maxwell 3D.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.50-55
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• 2021

Copper-chromium alloys have been used as contact materials of vacuum interrupters in circuit breakers, but new materials with highly stable performance are required to break the high voltage and high current barrier due to the recent increase in breaking capacity. In this paper, a new contact material was fabricated from a ternary alloy instead of existing Cu-Cr alloys. Its breaking performance and endurance were verified from a synthetic test and compared with that of various contact materials. The test results verified that the breaking performance of the new contact material was excellent.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.480-487
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• 2022

As a process to improve the insulation performance of VIs (Vacuum Interrupters), AC voltage conditioning is generally adopted by many manufacturers. Although the insulation performance is enhanced easily with AC Voltage conditioning, it has limitations when high recovery voltage is required due to high voltage rate or capacitive current switching. In particular, impurities such as oxides segregated on the electrode surface can be removed not by the energy level of the voltage conditioning but by the higher energy level achieved by the current conditioning process In this article, the current conditioning was carried out in various conditions and its validity was examined. The current conditioning was processed by changing the amplitude of applied current, arc time, the number of tests, and frequency. The insulation performance and the status of contact surface were checked as well. We concluded that as the applied charge quantity and the conditioning coverage area increase, the conditioning effect is much higher.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.569-575
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• 2022

This is a research thesis on the development of a monitoring and diagnosis device that prevents the risk of an accident through monitoring and diagnosis of a modular Main Circuit Breaker (MCB) using Vacuum Interrupter (VI) for Korean high-speed rolling stock. In this paper, a comprehensive MCB monitoring and diagnosis was performed by converging vacuum level diagnosis of interrupter, operating coil monitoring of MCB and environmental temperature/humidity monitoring of modular box. In addition, to develop an algorithm that is expected to have a similar data processing before the actual field test of the MCB monitoring and diagnosis device in 2023, the cluster analysis and factor analysis were performed using the WEKA data mining technique on the big data of Korean railroad transformer, which was previously researched by Tae Hee Evolution with KORAIL.

• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.141-148
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• 2015

In this study, the VCB(Vacuum Circuit Breaker) has been developed using the Recurdyn that is widely used on multibody dynamics analysis. The VCB consists of three main circuits with the VI(Vacuum Interrupter) and the main frame with the operating mechanism. This analytic model is validated by comparing the simulation results and the experimental results. Generally, in order to reliably cut off the breaking current, the opening speed of the VCB after contact separation has to be a 0.9~1.1m/s. Therefore, the study of the design parameters of the VCB is needed. To improve the opening velocity, Taguchi design method is applied to optimize the design parameters of a VCB with a lot of linkages. In addition, to evaluate the improvement of the operating characteristics, the simulation results are compared with the Recurdyn and experimental results with improved prototype sample.