• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.105-112
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• 2006

The main function of a reactor protection system is to maintain the reactor core integrity and the reactor coolant system pressure boundary. Generally, the reactor protection system adopts the 2-out-of-m redundant architecture to assure a reliable operation. This paper describes the safety assessment of a digital reactor protection system using the fault tree analysis technique. The fault tree technique can be expressed in terms of combinations of the basic event failures such as the random hardware failures, common cause failures, operator errors, and the fault tolerance mechanisms implemented in the reactor protection system. In this paper, a prediction method of the hardware failure rate is suggested for a digital reactor protection system, and applied to the reactor protection system being developed in Korea to identify design weak points from a safety point of view.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.1171-1176
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• 2004

To develop and improve a switchgear, the prediction of the pressure rising within the switchgear is very important. This study investigates the pressure rising characteristics of switchgear in order to evaluate the result of arc fault test. The pressure rising time at the four points of measurement calculated by CFD is well accord with the experimental results. The maximum pressure within the switchgear estimated by CFD is about 1.0bar, the pressure from experiment is 0.7 bar. The results of this study are able to be used to improve the performance of existing switchgear and to develop a new type switchgear.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.283-286
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• 2003

본 연구는 기존의 고장진단 기법들을 토대로 주어진 자동화 시스템에 실제 적용이 가능한 고장예측 알고리즘을 제시한다. 고장예측은 시스템이 운용되는 도중에 제한된 정보와 컴퓨터 자원을 이용하여 수행되어야 하므로 실시간 적용을 위하여 2단계로 구분하여 수행된다. 첫 번째는 실시간 고장예측 단계로서 시스템 운용 중에 시스템의 고장 징후를 탐지하는 역할을 하며, 두 번째는 오프라인 고장예측 단계로서 실시간으로 고장 징후가 탐지되면 시스템의 작동을 멈춘 후 고장의 징후를 분류하고 식별하는 역할을 수행한다 원활한 고장예측 알고리즘을 도출하기 위해 자동화 시스템의 이산사건 모델과 연속시간 모델을 수립하였으며, 이들을 통합한 공정모델에 대하여 하이브리드 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하였다. 제안된 기법은 자동화 시스템의 공정모델에 기구부, 모터부에 대한 고장모델을 부가하여 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 타당성을 검증하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.481-485
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• 2016

When analyzing economic feasibility for installing a PV generation plant at a certain location, the prediction of possible annual power production at the site using the target PV panels should be conducted on the basis of the local weather data provided by a local weather forecasting office. In addition, the prediction of PV generating power under certain weather conditions is useful for fault diagnosis and performance evaluation of PV generation plants during actual operation. This study analyzes PV cell characteristics according to a variety of weather conditions, including ambient temperature and irradiance level. From the analysis and simulation results, this work establishes a proper model that can predict the output characteristics of PV cells under changes in weather conditions.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.197-205
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• 2013

Real time transient stability assessment mainly depends on real-time prediction. Unfortunately, conventional techniques based on offline analysis are too slow and unreliable in complex power systems. Hence, fast and reliable stability prediction methods and simple stability criterions must be developed for real time purposes. In this paper, two new methods for real time determining critical clearing time based on clustering identification are proposed. This article is covering three main sections: (i) clustering generators and recognizing critical group; (ii) replacing the multi-machine system by a two-machine dynamic equivalent and eventually, to a one-machine-infinite-bus system; (iii) presenting a new method to predict post-fault trajectory and two simple algorithms for calculating critical clearing time, respectively established upon two different transient stability criterions. The performance is expected to figure out critical clearing time within 100ms-150ms and with an acceptable accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.763-766
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• 2000

In this paper, stator form-winding sample coils based on silicone resin and polyimide were made for fault prediction and reliability estimation on the 200 Class insulation system of traction motors. The complex accelerative degradation was performed by periods during 10 cycles, which was composed of thermal stress, fast rising surge voltage, vibration, water immersion and overvoltage applying. After aging of 10 cycles, condition diagnosis test such as insulation resistance & polarization index, capacitance & dielectric loss and partial discharge properties were investigated in the temperature range of 20∼160$^{\circ}C$. Relationship among condition diagnosis test was analyzed to find an dominative degradation factor and an insulation state at end-life point.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.825-833
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• 2020

Currently, the K-Water uses various valves that can be remotely controlled for optimal water management. Valve system fault can be classified into rotor defects, stator defects, bearing defects, and gear defects of induction motors. If the valve cannot be operated due to a gear fault, the water management operation can be greatly affected. For effective water management, there is an urgent need for preemptive repairs to determine whether gear is damaged through failure prediction diagnosis.. Recently, deep learning algorithms are being applied for valve failure diagnosis. However, the method currently applied has a disadvantage of attaching a vibration sensor to the valve. In this paper, propose a new algorithm to determine whether a fault exists using a convolutional neural network (CNN) based on the voltage and current information of the valve without additional sensor mounting. In particular, a normalized Lisasjous diagram was used to maximize the fault classification performance in the CNN-based diagnostic system.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1811-1819
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• 2017

As the induction motor is the core production equipment of the industry, it is necessary to construct a fault prediction and diagnosis system through continuous monitoring. Many researches have been conducted on motor fault diagnosis algorithm based on signal processing techniques using Fourier transform, neural networks, and fuzzy inference techniques. In this paper, we propose a fault diagnosis method of induction motor using LPC and DNN. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, the fault diagnosis was carried out using the vibration data of the induction motor in steady state and simulated various fault conditions. Experimental results show that the learning time of our proposed method and the conventional spectrum+DNN method is 139 seconds and 974 seconds each executed on the experimental PC, and our method reduces execution time by 1/8 compared with conventional method. And the success rate of the proposed method is 98.08%, which is similar to 99.54% of the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.415-416
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• 2014

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.185-192
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• 2018

Participants in the Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2017 (PHMAP 2017) Data Challenge were given measured vibration signals from motor-driven gearboxes used in pulverizers. Using this information, participants were requested to predict failure dates and the faulty components. The measured signals were affected by significant noise and disturbance, as the pulverizers in the provided data worked under actual operating conditions. This paper thus presents a fault prediction method for a motor-driven gearbox in a pulverizer system that can perform under external noise and disturbance conditions. First, two fault features, an RMS value in the higher frequency zones (HRMS) and an amplitude of a period for high-speed shaft in the quefrency domain ($QA_{HSS}$), were extracted based on frequency analysis using the higher and lower sampling rate data. The two features were then applied to each pulverizer based on results of frequency responses to impact loadings. Then, a regression analysis was used to predict the failure date using the two extracted features. A weighted regression analysis was used to compensate for the imbalance of the features in the given period. In addition, the faulty components in the motor-driven gearboxes were predicted based on the modulated frequency components. The score predicted by the proposed approach was ranked first in the PHMAP 2017 Data Challenge.