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Neural Network Based Dissolved Gas Analysis Using Gas Composition Patterns Against Fault Causes

  • J. H. Sun;Kim, K. H.;P. B. Ha
    • KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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    • v.3C no.4
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    • pp.130-135
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    • 2003
  • This study describes neural network based dissolved gas analysis using composition patterns of gas concentrations for transformer fault diagnosis. DGA samples were gathered from related literatures and classified into six types of faults and then a neural network was trained using the DGA samples. Diagnosis tests were performed by the trained neural network with DGA samples of serviced transformers, fault causes of which were identified by actual inspection. Diagnosis results by the neural network were in good agreement with actual faults.

Seismic Performance of Bridge with Pile Bent Structures in Soft Ground against Near-Fault Ground Motions (연약지반에 건설된 단일형 현장타설말뚝 교량의 근단층지반운동에 대한 내진성능)

  • Sun, Chang-Ho;An, Sung-Min;Kim, Jung-Han;Kim, Ick-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 2019
  • For the structures near the seismogenic fault, the evaluation of seismic performance against near-fault ground motions is important as well as for design ground motions. In this study, characteristics of seismic behaviors and seismic performance of the pile-bent bridge constructed on the thick soft soil site with various weak soil layers were analyzed. The input ground motions were synthesized by the directivity pulse parameters for intra-plate regions. The ground motion acceleration histories of each layer were obtained by one-dimensional site response analysis. Each soil layer was modeled by equivalent linear springs, and multi-support excitations with different input ground motions at each soil spring were applied for nonlinear seismic analyses. The analysis result by the near-fault ground motions and ground motions matched to design spectra were compared. In case of the near fault ground motion input, the bridge behaved within the elastic range but the location of the maximum moment occurred was different from the result of design ground motion input.

A Development of the Fault Detection System of Wire Rope using Magnetic Flux Leakage Inspection Method and Noise Filter (누설자속 탐상법 및 노이즈 필터를 이용한 와이어로프의 결함진단시스템 개발)

  • Lee, Young Jin;A, Mi Na;Lee, Kwon Soon
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.63 no.3
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    • pp.418-424
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    • 2014
  • A large number of wire rope has been used in various industries such as cranes and elevators. When wire used for a long time, wire defects occur such as disconnection and wear. It leads to an accident and damage to life and property. To prevent this accident, we proposed a wire rope fault detection system in this paper. We constructed the whole system choosing the leakage fault detection method using hall sensors and the method is simple and easy maintenance characteristics. Fault diagnosis and analysis were available through analog filter and amplification process. The amplified signal is transmitted to the computer through the data acquisition system. This signal could be obtained improved results through the digital filter process.

Performance inspection of smart superconducting fault current controller in radial distribution substation through PSCAD/EMTDC simulation

  • MassoudiFarid, Mehrdad;Shim, Jae Woong;Lee, Jiho;Ko, Tae Kuk
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.21-25
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    • 2013
  • In power grid, in order to level out the generation with demand, up-gradation of the system is occasionally required. This will lead to more fault current levels. However, upgrading all the protection instruments of the system is both costly and extravagant. This issue could be dominated by using Smart Fault Current Controller (SFCC). While the impact of Fault current Limiters (FCL) in various locations has been studied in different situations for years, the performance of SFCC has not been investigated extensively. In this research, SFCC which has adopted the characteristics of a full bridge thyristor rectifier with a superconducting coil is applied to three main locations such as load feeder, Bus-tie position and main feeder location and its behavior is investigated through simulation in presence and absence of small Distributed Generation unit (DG). The results show a huge difference in limiting the fault current when using SFCC.

Healthy Assessment of Generator Stator Cores using EL-CID (ELectromagnetic Core Imperfection Detector) (EL-CID를 이용한 발전기 고정자 철심의 건전성 평가)

  • Kim, Byeong-Rae;Kim, Hee-Dong
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.58 no.2
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    • pp.356-362
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    • 2009
  • The ELectromagnetic Core Imperfection Detector (EL-CID) test was performed on a small generator in the laboratory and a gas turbine generator in the field to assess the fault condition of generator stator core. Artificial defects with six different sizes were introduced in the small generator. The scan results on six defects show a very large increase in the magnitude of fault current compared to that obtained with a healthy core. After the stator core heats up, a thermal imaging camera was used to detect hot spot on the inner surface of the core for comparison. Several faults were found during inspection of the gas turbine generator with the EL-CID. It has been shown that the existence of a fault can be determined by monitoring the magnitude of fault current.

Malfunction Detection of High Voltage Equipment Using Microphone Array and Infrared Thermal Imaging Camera (Microphone Array와 열화상 카메라를 이용한 고압설비 고장검출)

  • Han, Sun-Sin;Choi, Jae-Young;Lee, Jang-Myung
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 2010
  • The paper proposes a hierarchical fault detection method for the high voltage equipment using a microphone array which detects the location of fault and the thermal imaging and CCD cameras which verifies the fault and stores the image, respectively. There are partial arc discharges on the faulty insulators, which generates a specific pattern of sound. Detecting the signal using the microphone array, the location of the faulty insulator can be estimated. The 6th band-pass filter was applied to remove noise signal from wind or external influence. When the mobile robot carries the thermal and CCD cameras to the possible place of the fault insulator, the fault insulators or power transmission wires can be detected by the thermal images, which are caused by the aging or natural erosion. Finally, the CCD camera captures the image of the fault insulator for the record. The detection scheme of fault location using the microphone array and the thermal images have been proved to be effective through the real experiments. As a result of this research, it becomes possible to use a mobile robot with the integrated sensors to detect the fault insulators instead of a human being.

Decision of Maintenance Priority Order for Substation Facility through Structural Importance and Fault Analysis (변전설비의 구조적 중요도와 고장 분석을 통한 유지보수 우선순위 선정)

  • Lee, Sung-Hun;Lee, Yun-Seong;Kim, Jin-O
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2013
  • Reliability Centered Maintenance(RCM) is one of most widely used methods in the modern power system to schedule a maintenance cycle and determine the priority of inspection. A precedence study for the new structure of rearranged system should be performed due to introduction of additional installation. This paper proposes a new method to evaluate the priority of maintenance and inspection of the power system facilities. In order to calculate that risk index, it is required that the reliability block diagram should be analyzed for the power system. Additionally, a fault cause analysis is also performed through the event-tree analysis.

Stability Evaluation for a riverbed tunnel in the Han River at the Fault Zone Crossing (한강 단층대를 통과하는 하저터널의 안정성 확보에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Jong-Tae;Lee, Song
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.225-231
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    • 2001
  • When building tunnels beneath riverbeds where very large quantities of groundwater inflow exist, added to high water head the soil supporting conditions are very poor because the soil consists of sand and silt, etc. It is necessary to have grouting and mini pipe roof installed in the region for ground reinforcement to decrease permeability. According to this result of horizontal boring and laboratory soil testing, ground reinforcement was achieved by L.W grouting for range of 3.0 times the tunnel radius, to increase stability of the tunnel we used the ling-cut method, 0.8m for one step excavation, shotcrete with 25cm thick, steel lib with H-$125{\times}125$. and a temporary shotcrete invert 20cm thick was installed to prevent deformation of the tunnel.

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Development of Inspection Tool for 154kV Live-line Insulator string (154kV 활선 애자련의 불량애자를 검출하는 활선애자 점검기 개발)

  • Lee, Jae-Kyung;Park, Joon-Young;Oh, Ki-Yong;Jo, Byeong-Hak
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2008.10b
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    • pp.373-374
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    • 2008
  • To prevent an insulator failure, a new inspection system is presented for 154kV insulator strings. The inspection system detects fault insulators by measuring resistance and voltage of each insulators in the 154kV insulator string. The inspection instrument obtains autonomously insulation resistance and assigned voltage along the insulator string. The insulator inspection instrument is manipulated by two operators. In addition, a set of mechanism is applied to prevent the system from being reset under live-line condition. We confirmed its effectiveness through experiments.

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