• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.187-193
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• 2018

There has been a gradual increase in the demand for the electric power in Korea. In order to meet the demand, power station should have technical functions with increased effectiveness. When accident happens in electric machinery at power stations, huge amount of economic losses and mulfunction of equipments occur. One of the accidents is a deteriorated cables operating power stations. In order to prevent cable accident in advance, we should monitor the insulation status of the cable. Cable accidents are resulting from the junctions. We have developed and installed a device in order to identify the status of junction part of power cable at Korea Western Power Co., Ltd.. We performed an accurate diagnosis for the stable utilization of junctions where the accidents occurs most frequently, and to increase the reliability. In this paper, we present the concepts of our device and the method of monitoring diagnosis for the stable use of junctions at cables predicting the life time of cables by analyzing the data obtained by the device. We also present the hardware aspect of the device we have developed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.14-21
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• 2000

This paper presents the results of performance evaluation of silicone treatment technique which was developed for the insulation rehabilitation of water tree aged XLPE power cables. We treated the water tree aged 325 [$\textrm{mm}^2$] CN/CV cables with silicone, and then analyzed the degree of insulation rehabilitation as a function of time. AC breakdown test was conducted to evaluate insulation rehabilitation. The diagnosis test using relaxation current measurement and the characteristic analysis of insulation were also performed to estimate silicone treated cable. AC breakdown strength of silicone treated cable for one year was increased, resulting from the chemical reaction between silicone fluid and water. This experiment showed that the silicone treatment technique was effective for insulation rehabilitation of the water tree aged cables.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.231-236
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• 2014

With the development of industry these days, the demand for electric power increases and the larger capacity for power transfer is required. The scales of facilities should become larger; and the relative systems are required to operate with a higher degree of reliability. Therefore, stabilization of electric power systems is an important issue. The high degree of reliability required in the process of production and supply of electric power is an essential part of industrial society. Accident such as blackouts causes a hugh amount of economic losses to the high-tech industrial society dependent upon electric power. In this paper, in order to determine a stable operation of high-voltage power cable, used as a unique means of delivering electric power generated at a power station, we figure out the time rate of change of insulation resistance following a decay accelerating factor Arrhenius equation. With the data from the insulation resistance, we can determine the lifetime of power cable in operation.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.247-252
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• 1999

In this paper, in order to investigate availability of the OW-PD measurement method which has been proposed as an alternative of AC-PD measurement method to an after laying test and/or diagnosis for the power cable system, partial discharges owing to the needle-type defect integrated into the cable have been measured using AC and OW(Oscillating Wave) voltages. In the AC-PD measurement, the magnitude, phase and pulse number of partial discharges have been changed with the duration of voltage application, which can be analyzed through the relation with the process of the electrical tree initiation and propagation. In addition, the characteristics of partial discharges using OW voltage are appeared to be similar to those in case of AC-PD measurement and to be different with the shapes of electrical tree. From these results, it is concluded that the OW-PD measurement method is available to the tests for the cable system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.801-807
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• 2008

Recently, CV, CN-CV and CNCV-W cable are used for HVDC transmission and distribution cable. However, XLPE which is used as insulation layer of power cable has thermosetting properties. It is very difficult to recycling. In this paper, we prepared HDPE/EVA film, which the blending ratio are 80:20, 70:30, 60:40, 50;50 respectively for the purpose of recycling. Main factor such as electric field distribution and its resistivity in insulation system affected on insulation performance and reliability for HVDC applications. Therefore, electric field distribution formed by space charge and characteristics of volume resistivity was currently investigated. We suggest the possibility of utilization for HVDC insulation layer from the results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07c
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• pp.1353-1355
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• 1995

While the modern society has been highly diversified and civilized, the demand for the safty of a power transmission has been greatly increased. For the underground cable, the performance of the electrical equipments is being improved by developing a new technology, and the reliability of the power supply is being up graded by impressing the diagnostic and monitoring technology of the system. In this paper the aging procedure of O.F and XLPE cables are described, including the diagnostic and monitoring equipments and the future subject.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.187-189
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• 1997

Thermal and electrical breakdown phenomena in XLPE insulator of power cable were investigated. At high temperature the polymeric insulator was thermally deteriorated. Under the magnified high electric field, electrical tree was initiated at the sharp tip of needle electrode which was inserted to simulate the defects and impurities such as void, crack, metallic particles, dusts, and so on.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1165-1166
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• 2015

현재 가장 널리 사용되고 있는 전력용 지중케이블의 고분자 절연재료인 가교 폴리에틸렌(XLPE)은 전기적, 기계적으로 특성이 우수하다는 장점을 가지고 있지만 열경화성으로 인해 재활용이 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 환경친화적인 전력용 케이블을 개발하기 위해 열경화성인 XLPE를 대체할 수 있는 열가소성의 고분자 절연재료를 개발하는 것이다. 이를 위해 후보군의 재료들에 대한 단기적인 특성인 교류절연파괴 시험을 시행하였다. 또한, 중장기 특성을 평가하기 위해 가속수명시험(accelerated life test: ALT)을 수행하였다. 신뢰성있는 실험결과를 위하여 교류절연파괴시험과 가속수명시험에는 McKeown 전극계를 제작, 사용하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.222-225
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• 1999

Degradation diagnosis of XLPE insulated URD cables was accomplished through out new method. which was to be analyzed non-electrical experiments and synthesized by degradation points. To supplement this method, it was also carried out using several electrical analyses. Breakdown voltages were measured and breakdown lifetimes were Predicted appling for Weibull distribution function. As a result, breakdown lifetime in failure cables was shorted up to 1/3 times than that in general cables. It was very available to estimate cable degradation using above method, but it needs further study on XLPE insulated URD cables in order to improve reliability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.203-204
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• 2007

This paper investigated the influence on partial discharge distribution of various defects at the model power cable joints interface using K-means clustering. As the result of analyzing discharge number distribution of ${\Phi}-n$ cluster, clusters shifted to $0^{\circ}\;and\;180^{\circ}$ with increasing applying voltage. It was confirmed that discharge quantity and euclidean distance between centroids were increased with applying voltage from the analyzing centroid distribution of ${\Phi}-q$ cluster. The degree of dispersion was increased with calculating standard deviation of ${\Phi}-q$ cluster centroid. The tendency both number of discharge and mean value of ${\Phi}-q$ cluster centroid were some different with defect types.