• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.212-214
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• 2001

This paper proposes a hi-directional current switch with snubber regeneration using Power MOSFETs and to use a loss-less snubber with switching device to perform soft-switching. It results in not only decreasing switching loss in the device drastically, but also improving input ac current waveform distortion. The computer simulation results show that the input current waveform and show the requirements necessary for the elimination of the 3rd harmonic component. We also show the Procedure to design the parameters of the converter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.492-496
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• 2004

When using a conventional power factor correction circuit, a comparatively huge capacitor is used to boost-up output voltage. It has a large amount of harmonic distortion in the input current waveform. To improve the input current waveform of diode rectifiers, we propose a new operating principle for the power factor correction circuit. Due to the fact that the proposed circuit uses smaller ones and a smaller reactor, the output voltage increases and obtains higher input current waveforms. These are suitable for the harmonics guidelines. The proposed circuit is able to obtain higher power factor and efficiency. Also, it has reduced switching loss and held over-shooting by using an inverter of eliminated dead-time HPWM that has non-linear impedance circuits to make up diodes, capacitance and a reactor. We compared the conventional PWM inverter and proposed HPWM inverters and found that a high input power factor of 97[%] and an efficiency of 98[%] were also obtained.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.07b
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• pp.739-741
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• 1993

This paper deals with the Improvement of inverter output waveform with space vector modulation using the DSP-chip. The proposed scheme can be considered as a alternative of the conventional, subharmonic method. This scheme features a maximum output voltage that is 15% greater. The number of switchings is also 30% less than the one obtained by subharmonic modulation method(SHM) A performance function(PF) which is the time integral function of the inverter output voltage is introduced in this paper. An optimal PWM pattern is obtained by minimizing the distortion factor of performance function. The experiment was carried out with an TMS320C25.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.448-456
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• 2012

This paper presents a multilevel inverter configuration which is designed by insertion of a bidirectional switch between capacitive voltage sources and a conventional H-bridge module. The modified inverter can produce a better sinusoidal waveform by increasing the number of output voltage levels. By serial connection of two modified H-bridge modules, it is possible to produce 9 output voltage levels including zero. There are 24 basic switching patterns with the 9 output voltage levels. Among the patterns, we select the 2 most efficient switching patterns to get a lower switching loss and minimum dv/dt stress. We then analyze characteristics of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the output voltage with variation of input voltage by computer-aided simulations and experiments.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.10
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• pp.1461-1470
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• 2012

This paper reports the contamination performance of transmission line porcelain insulators tested under five different contaminant conditions - clean and ESDD (equivalent salt deposit density) level (A, B, C, and D) through measurement of their leakage current under drop of potential method. To estimate the contamination for transmission line porcelain insulators, leakage current waveform and its maximum value were measured under step-up power test. In the clean insulators test, % distortion factors decreased with increasing step-up power, and as the ESDD level increased, some characteristics such as frequency analysis, harmonics and % distortion facotor could be used for contamination diagnosis of the transmission line porcelain insulators.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.11-14
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• 2007

In recent years, installation of the new and renewable energy system is rapidly increasing. Because the new and renewable energy system is a practical distributed generation system to save energy resources and to keep environments clean. Conventional single-phase utility interactive inverter controls output current by using PI current controller. However, this method is insufficient to suppress harmonic current resulted from nonlinear loads in grid line. In this paper, in order to suppress periodic waveform distortion and improve THD(Total Harmonic Distortion), new type current controller added a parallel repetitive controller is proposed and then performance of the proposed controller was verified with computer simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.18-23
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• 1966

The dynamic analyses of FM discriminators-Slope, Travis, Foster-Seely, and Ratio types-are presented by the method of Fourier Transform. The relationships between the distortion of the output waveform from the discriminator and its input FM wave and circuit constants are clearly shown in this study. According to the results, the Travis, Foster-Seely, and the ratio discriminators contain only odd harmonics, but the slope discriminator contains both even and odd harmonics. The permissible handwidth of travis discriminator for the 2% distortion is about twice those of Foster-Seely and ratio discriminatosr and sixteen times that of slope discriminator.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.495-498
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• 2008

PCC(Point of Common Coupling) is measured by waveform in power system. Analyzing their frequency, it is possible to get various indices such as THD(Total Harmonic Distortion), TDD(Total Demand Distortion), and VF(Voltage Flicker), and then the harmonic can be evaluated from them. In this paper, the harmonic effect on the power supply which is generated by the vehicle is presented by comparing harmonics with the substation and the vehicle.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.50-55
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• 2000

This paper presents the feature extraction of fault currents related to the multi-shot reclosing scheme in the power distribution system. In order to get the fault current waveform, we have measured the fault currents by the fault recorders which have been installed at the secondary side of 154/22.9[kV] substation transformer. These waveforms are classified into temporary and permanent fault. For the classified waveforms, Fourier transform is used to extract the feature of the fault current waveforms. After the waveforms are analyzed by using Fourier transform, the magnitude spectrum and the relative variation of THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) are calculated. And then the relative variation of THD is great in the temporary faults, and is small in the permanent faults.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.343-346
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• 2000

In most inverter/converter applications SVPWM method is the preferred approach for it shows good characteristics in linear modulation range and waveform quality. in this paper we propose a new carrier based SVPWM method for multi-level system. First we survey the conventional carrier based SVPWM method and investigate the problem of the conventional one for the multi-level system with the focus on the switching frequency harmonic flux trajectories. Finally we propose a new carrier based SVPWM method that can reduce harmonic distortion. Simulation and experimental results are given for the verification of the proposed SVPWM method.