• KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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• v.5A no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2005

In the operation of distribution systems, DGs (Distributed Generations) are installed as an alternative to extension and the establishment of substations, transmission and distribution lines according to the increasing power demand. In the operation planning of DGs, determining optimal capacity and allocation achieves economical profitability and improves the reliability of power distribution systems. This paper proposes a determining method for the optimal number, size and allocation of DGs in order to minimize the operation costs of distribution systems. Capacity and allocation of DGs for economical operation planning duration are determined to minimize total cost composed with power buying cost, operation cost of DGs, loss cost and outage cost using the GA (Genetic Algorithm).

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.479-486
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• 2013

This paper presents a control strategy for distributed systems, which can be used in islanded microgrids. The control strategy is based on the droop method, which uses locally measured feedback to achieve load current sharing. Instead of the traditional droop method, an improved one is implemented. A virtual inductor in the synchronous frame for three-phase inverters is proposed to deal with the coupling of the frequency and the amplitude related to the active and reactive power. Compared with the traditional virtual inductor, the proposed virtual inductor is not affected by high frequency noises because it avoids differential calculations. A model is given for the distributed generation system, which is beneficial for the design of the droop coefficients and the value of the virtual inductor. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified by simulation and experiment results.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.7
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• pp.966-973
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• 2012

In microgrid demonstration site, distributed generations can make bidirectional power flows on the system. If an accident occurs, the fault current from the inverter based distributed generation is small. However, the conventional protection scheme in distribution network is designed to operate at high fault current. This means that the traditional protection of distribution network is no longer applicable and new protection methods must be developed. In this paper, for two cases, algorithms for protection coordination of demonstration site is proposed and verified through PSCAD/EMTDC simulation. In first case, protection devices are assumed to have the abilities of directional relaying and communication. In second case, protection devices do not have those abilities. Proposed protection coordination algorithms detect the fault locations and protect the microgrid fairly well.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.37-50
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• 2016

In recent years, the development and application of green energy resources have attracted more and more /$^*$ 'tention of people. The training room presented here is focused on the terminal applications of a photovoltaic power generation system (PPGS). Through introducing the composition and the general design principles, we aimed at leading the students to master the fundamental skills required for its design, installation and construction. The training room consists of numerous platforms, such as: PPGS, Wind and Photovoltaic Hybrid Power Generation Systems, Wind Power Generation Equipments, Simulative Grid-Connected Power Generation System, Electronic Technology Application of New Energy, etc. This enables the students to obtain their project and professional skills training via assembling, adjusting, maintaining and inspecting, etc., various component parts of the photovoltaic and new energy power generation systems, to further grasp the fundamental and related theoretical knowledge, and to further reinforce their practical and operational skills, so as to improve their problem-analyzing and problem-solving abilities.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.232-239
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• 2007

There is an increasing concern to interconnect DG(Distributed Generation) units into a distribution system and operate and maintain the system power quality within a proper level to distribution companies, regional electricity utilities and industrial customers. Recently, this situation makes many experts estimate a next generation of distribution system which is composed of some micro-grids. But the proposed micro-grid is only mentioned as a small grid with some DG units, some power quality compensators, communication and control equipments. In this paper, a topology and an operation/control algorithm of the micro-grid which is able to supply the electricity with high reliability and quality, are proposed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1989.10a
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• pp.17-21
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• 1989

6-DOE simulator system is designed to real-time processing for motion control, data acquisition, image generation and image processing etc.. In this paper, we introduce hardware and software design technologies for distributed processing, event-trapping, system monitoring and time scheduling procedure in 6-DOF simulator system design.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.19-28
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• 2007

The paper discussed various techniques for islanding detection and described in detail the working principles of ROCOF and vector shift relays. A simulator was used to investigate why the stability of both types of relays maybe affected by network and load switching, short-circuit faults and in the case of a ROCOF relay the loss of bulk generation or the tripping of a transmission feeder. Finally, to enhance the reliability of Loss of Mains protection, a new islanding detection technique based on a GPS synchronized phasor measurement system was proposed.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.105-110
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• 2019

This study proposed a reactive power variation (RPV) method equipped with positive feedback (PF) for detecting the islanding operation of distributed generation systems. The proposed RPV consists of the constant reactive power component and a certain reactive power term and uses the frequency deviation between the rated and the measured frequencies. The constant reactive power is injected from distributed generation system and power factor is to 0.9975 in grid-connected operation. PF is activated from generation of the frequency deviation and the injected reactive power is continuously increased due to PF when islanding occurs. Consequently, the increasing reactive power causes the point of common coupling frequency to deviate from the maximum/minimum threshold level. Performance of the proposed RPV is verified in a 1.7 kW T-type inverter, and the detection times are 53 and 150 ms.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

The massive growth of the internet and the world-wide-web leads us to research the programming languages for the development of applications in heterogeneous, network-wide distributed environments. Java is an object-oriented language for such a environment and the Java programming language environment provides a portable, interpreted, high-performance, simple programming language. Bytecode is an intermediate code for Java language and it enables the development of applications on multiple platform in heterogeneous, distributed networks. But it takes much time to execute Bytecode because of using an interpretation method. In this paper, we design and implement a retargetable code generation system which can be systematically reconfigured to generate code for a variety of distinct target computers. From the system, we realize the code generation system which translates the Bytecode being produced by Java compiler into Pentium target code. We use ACK code generation system to do the work easily.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.12
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• pp.2157-2164
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• 2010

Microgrid is generally defined as cluster of small distributed generators, energy storages and loads. Through monitoring and coordinated control, microgrid can provide various benefits such as reduction of energy cost, peak shaving and power quality improvement. In design stage of microgrid, system dynamic simulation is necessary for optimizing of sizing and siting of DER(distributed energy resources). As number of the system components increases, simulation time will be longer. This problem can restrict optimal design. So we used simplified modeling on energy sources and average switching model on power converters to reduce simulation time. The effectiveness of this method is verified by applying to prototype microgrid system, which is consist of photovoltaic, wind power, diesel engine generators, battery energy storage system and loads installed in laboratory. Simulation by Matlab/Simulink and measurements on prototype microgrid show that the proposed method can reduce simulation time not sacrificing dynamic characteristics.