• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1345-1356
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• 2014

The thermal behavior of power modules is an important criterion for the design of cooling systems and optimum thermal structure of these modules. An important consideration for high power and high frequency design is the spacing between semiconductor devices, substrate structure and influence of the boundary condition in the case. This study focuses on the thermal behavior of hybrid power modules to establish a simplified method that allows temperature estimation in different module components without decapsulation. This study resulted in a correction of the junction temperature values estimated from the transient thermal impedance of each component operating alone. The corrections depend on mutual thermal coupling between different chips of the hybrid structure. A new experimental technique for thermal mutual evaluation is presented. Notably, the classic analysis of thermal phenomena in these structures, which was independent of dissipated power magnitude and boundary conditions in the case, is incorrect.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.12-17
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• 1976

구논문은 ULM(Universal Logic Modules)의 구성과 특징에 관하여 고찰하고 TULM, QULM 및 SULM에 관하여 분석하였으며 대칭함수를 도입하여 ULM 회로의 간소화를 시도하였다. 대칭함수에 의한 간소화결과를 ULM으로 실현시키기 위하여 54/74류 집적회로를 써서 10KHz의 발진회로를 구성하여 이론적 결과와 대응함을 관찰하였다. This paper deals with characteristics and analysis of the Universal Logic Modules as well as TULM, QULM and SULM. Studies are made on minimization in Storms of symmetric circuits and theoretical stuides are made by using the symmetric functions The symmetric circuits of the ULM are realized by employing 54/74 ICs, An oscillator circuit of 10KHz. is constructed based on the ULM. The experimental results gave a good agreement with the theoretical Minimization.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.45-50
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• 2011

The efficiency of solar cell was about 4[%] in initial stage of photovoltaic industry, but it has quite a lot of efficiency through technology advances. Today, the efficiency of c-Si solar cells is about 17 to 19[%] and the efficiency of PV modules is about 14 to 15 [%]. We called that electrical losses occurred in the Conversion of solar cells to PV modules are CTM loss(Cell To Module loss), the CTM loss typically has a value of about3~5[%]. The more efficiency of solar cell increase, differences are larger because the efficiency decrease owing to physical or technical problems occurred in the Conversion of solar cells to PV modules. In this study, the power loss factors occurred in the Conversion of solar cells to PV modules are analyzed and it is proposed that how to reduce losses of the PV module. The types of power loss factor are (1)losses of front glass and encapsulant(generally EVA sheet), (2)losses by sorting miss, (3)losses by interconnection, (4)losses by the field aging of PV modules. In further study, experimental and evaluation will be conducted to make demonstrate for proposed solutions.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권7호
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• pp.754-759
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• 2015

오늘날 선박 내 승선자의 위치인식과, 이를 모니터링을 하는 데 저 전력 근거리 통신시스템이 많이 개발되고 있으며, 이러한 저 전력 근거리 통신을 위해서 BLE, Zigbee 등과 같은 저 전력 통신 모듈이 이용되고 있다. 저 전력 통신 모듈은 1:N 통신이 가능하고, 휴대폰, 인체 등의 이동 물체에 탑재할 수 있어 각광을 받고 있다. 저 전력 통신모듈을 사용하는 데 있어서, 배터리의 용량이나 크기가 각각 시스템의 작동시간이나 통신모듈의 디자인에 중요한 요소가 된다. 따라서 모듈은 가급적 작게 만들어져야 하고, 배터리는 모듈의 크기보다 더 작게 선정되는 것이 바람직하다. 본 논문에서는 전송률 1/250 조건에서 데이터 시트와 방전특성 그래프를 참조하여 SIVCP용 BLE 모듈에 사용되고 있는 배터리의 이론 수명을 산출하고, 위와 동일한 전송률과 1/5000 전송률의 조건에서 각각 송전전류와 저속모드 전류를 검출하여 실험수명을 산출하며, 전송률을 1/25로 하여 수일 동안 고속 방전 장기 실험수명을 측정한다. 이와 같은 실험을 통하여, 배터리의 수명예측과 수명연장 방법을 실험적으로 검증하고, 이를 선박의 용도와 승객의 유형에 따른 적절한 배터리 선정에 활용하고자 한다. 모듈의 전송률과 배터리 크기 선정은 모듈의 설계비용의 감소, 배터리 유지관리 및 승객의 편의 등에 중요한 영향을 미치는 요소가 된다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.310-317
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• 2013

To reduce vehicle fuel consumption due to not only driving but also air conditioning, battery-operated non-starting conditioning systems with thermoelectric modules and without mechanical elements like compressors are being manufactured for use by hybrid heavy trucks in the near future. In this study, the voltage and current consumed by a thermoelectric module were measured to determine the required battery power, and the performance of the conditioning system with air temperature, and humidity of the inlet/outlet modules and inside/outside the cabin for a truck, was evaluated using experimental apparatus under actual conditions. The results showed that, the thermoelectric module can be continously operated for about 1.5 h using existing 24 V batteries. The coefficent of performance(COP) of the cooling and heating modes was calculated to be an average 0.8-1.32. As expected, the heating performance was 30% more efficient than the cooling performance, which is general characteristic of thermoelectric modules.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2010

임베디드 시스템 과목을 위한 실습 과제는 주로 임베디드 보드와 소프트웨어 개발 도구를 사용한 하드웨어 실습 키트로 진행된다. 하드웨어 실습 키트는 높은 초기 설치비용, 유지보수의 어려움, 산업계 발전에 비적응적 대처, 교육적 성과의 한계와 같은 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문은 임베디드 시스템 하드웨어 실습 키트의 단점을 극복할 수 있는 시뮬레이션 기반의 가상 실습 환경의 사용을 제안하고 가상 실습 키트의 설계 및 구축에 대하여 기술한다. 구축된 가상 실습 키트는 ARM 사의 ARMulator 환경에 기반을 두어 마이크로프로세서 시스템의 주요 하드웨어 IP들을 추가하고 주변장치들을 위한 사용자 인터페이스 모듈을 개발하여 구축되었다. 검증용 예제 프로그램을 이용하여 동작의 정확성을 확인하였으며 실시간 운영체제 실습도 가능하도록 MicroC/OS-II를 이식하였다.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2009

Photovoltaic-thermal(PVT) collectors are a combination of photovoltaic modules with solar thermal collectors, forming one device that receives solar radiation and produces electricity and heat simultaneously. The PVT collectors can produce more energy per unit surface area than side by side PV modules and solar thermal collectors. There are two types of water type PVT collectors, depending on the existence of glass cover over PV module; glass-covered(glazed) PVT module, which produces relatively more thermal energy but has lower electrical yield, and uncovered(unglazed) PVT module, which has relatively lower thermal energy with somewhat higher electrical performance. In this paper, the experimental performance of two types of the water-based PVT combined collectors, glazed and unglazed, was analyzed. The electrical and thermal performances of the PVT combined collectors were measured in outdoor conditions, and the results were compared.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.130-135
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• 2010

In this paper, the shading ratio about to output the minimum critical power of a photovoltaic panel was determined by experiment and simulation. A 2.475[kW] poly-crystalline photovoltaic panel consisting of 11 modules was used in the experiment and its surface was covered with shading curtains, thus the amount of light incident to the modules were controlled. In order to compare with the experimental results, the experimental circuits were modelled with the CASPOC (power electronics electrical drives simulator) and module parameters were applied to it, by which the minimum critical power was calculated. As a result, the photovoltaic panel was about to generate the power when the 5th shading curtains were removed from the module surface, after then the output power linearly increased by removing the shading curtains. In addition, the CASPOC simulation results were similar to the experimental results in the abrupt decreasing pattern of power.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.296-303
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• 2013

This paper proposes a high efficiency three-phase cascaded phase shifted H-bridge multi-level inverter without DC/DC converters for grid-tied multi string photovoltaic (PV) applications. The cascaded H-bridge topology is suitable for PV applications since each PV module can act as a separate DC source for each cascaded H-bridge module. The proposed phase shifted H-bridge multi-level topology offers advantages such as operation at a lower switching frequency and a lower current ripple when compared to conventional two level topologies. It is also shown that low ripple sinusoidal current waveforms are generated with a unity power factor. The control algorithm permits the independent control of each DC link voltage with a maximum power point for each string of PV modules. The use of the controller area network (CAN) communication protocol for H-bridge multi-level inverters, along with localized PWM generation and PV voltage regulation are implemented. It is also shown that the expansion and modularization capabilities of the H-bridge modules are improved since the individual inverter modules operate more independently. The proposed topology is implemented for a three phase 240kW multi-level PV power conditioning system (PCS) which has 40kW H-bridge modules. The experimental results show that the proposed topology has good performance.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.514-521
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• 2017

This paper proposes a shadowing compensation method for the solar modules of grid-connected photovoltaic generation systems. The shadowing compensator (SC) implemented by the proposed shadowing compensation method is used only for the solar modules that can be shaded by predictable sources of shading. The proposed SC can simplify both the power circuit and the control circuit as well as improve power efficiency and utilizes a voltage equalizer configured by a modified multi-winding fly-back converter. The proposed SC harvests energy from the entire solar cell array to compensate for the shaded sub-modules of the solar cell array, producing near-identical voltages of all shaded and un-shaded sub-modules in the solar cell array. This setup prevents the formation of multiple peaks in the P-V curve under shaded conditions. Hardware prototypes are developed for the SCs implemented by the conventional and modified multi-winding fly-back converters, and their performance is verified through testing. The experimental results show that both SCs can overcome the multiple peaks in the P-V curve. The proposed SC is superior to the SC implemented by the conventional multi-winding fly-back converter.