• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1081-1082
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• 2008

Photovoltaic (PV) power generation system has been widely studied as a clean and renewable power source. The purpose of this study is to keep the output power of photovoltaic cells maximum under any weather conditions. There are so many MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) methods. P&O method has been used as a key MPPT method, both voltage and current coming out from PV array have to be feedback in the method. Thus, the system has a complex structure, and may fail to track MPP of PV array when unexpected weather conditions happen. In order to reduce the feedback components, POS MPPT control method was proposed by the authors. In this paper, the authors apply the POS MPPT control method to three phase PCS system. And the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is demonstrated through PSCAD/EMTDC simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.70-76
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• 2012

In general, the unidirectional power flow is normal in distribution feeders before activation of distributed power source such as PV. However, the interactive power flow is likely to occur in case of the power system under distributed generation. This interactive power flow can cause an unexpected effect on convectional protection coordination systems designed based only on the unidirectional power flow system. When the power line system encounters a problem, the interactive power flow can be a contributed current source and this makes the fault current bigger or smaller compared to the unidirectional case. The effect of interactive power flow is varied depending on the location of the point to ground fault, relative location of the PV, and connection method. Therefore it is important to analyse characteristics of fault current and interactive flow for various transformer connection and location of the PV. This paper proposes a method of improved protection coordination which can be adopted in the protective device for customers in distribution feeders interconnected with the PV. The proposed method is simulated and analysed using PSCAD/EMTDC under various conditions.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2000

In general, FDM(finite difference method) and FVM(finite volume method) are used for analyzing the fluid flow numerically. However it is difficult to apply them to problems involving complex geometries, multi-connected domains, and complex boundary conditions. On the contrary, FEM(finite element method) with coordinates transformation for the unstructured grid is effective for the complex geometries. Most of previous studies have used commercial codes such as KIVA or STAR-CD for the flow analyses in the engine cylinder, and these codes are mostly based on the FVM. In the present study, using the FEM for three-dimensional, unsteady, and incompressible Navier-Stokes equation, the velocity and pressure fields in the engine cylinder have been numerically analyzed. As a numerical algorithm, 4-step time-splitting method is used and ALE(arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) method is adopted for moving grids. In the Piston-Cylinder, the calculated results show good agreement in comparison with those by the FVM and the experimental results by the LDA.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.188-190
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 국내최초로 개발에 성공한 단일용량의120kW급 계통연계형 태양광발전용 PCS에 관한 내용을 설명하고 있다. 120kW급 계통연계형 태양광발전시스템은 22.9kV의 특고압 계통전원에 연계되도록 설계되었으며, 삼상 380V를 22.9kV로 승압 연계하는 2단 절연방식을 채택하였다. 120kW급 PCS는 상용주파수 변압기 절연방식으로 3상4선식 380v 60H2 출력을 가지고 있으며, PCS 내부에 120kVA급 변압기와 리액터를 포함하고 있다. 최대출력점추종(MPPT)제어 기법으로 P&O 알고리즘을 적용하였으며, 3상 IGBT 인버터를 DSP로 제어하였다. 본 논문에서는 120kW급 단일용량 PC를 개발함에 있어, 계통연계 시험, 유,무효 전류제어 시험, 단독운전 검출 및 방지시험, 출력전류의 THD 측정 등의 결과를 보이고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.707-710
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• 2002

A 120kV/70A high voltage switch has been installed at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute in Taejon to supply power with Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) system. NBI system requires fast cutoff of the power supply voltage for protection of the grid when arc detected and fast turn-on the voltage for sustaining the beam current. Therefore the high voltage switch and arc current detection circuit are important part of the NBI power supply and there are much need for high voltage solid state switches in NBI system and a broad area of applications. This switch consisted of 100 series connected MOSFETs and adopted the proposed simple and reliable gate drive circuit without bias supply, Various results taken during the commissioning phase with a 100kW resistive load and NBI source are shown. This paper presents the detailed design of 120kV/70A high voltage MOSFETs switch and simple gate drive circuit. Problems with the high voltage switch and gate driver and solutions are also presented.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.299-301
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• 2006

계통연계형 태양광 시스템을 구성하고 있는 전력변환장치인 PCS(power conditioning system)는 일반적으로 그 내부에 입력전력 평활용 Capacitor, DC-DC Converter, DC link Capacitor, DC-AC Inverter 및 L-C Filter 등으로 구성된다. 이러한 태양광 시스템의 구성은 주로 태양광 어레이와 PCS의 DC-DC Converter 및 DC-AC Inverter의 수와 연결 방법에 따라 여러 가지로 구성할 수가 있다. 본 논문에서 제안할 시스템의 구성은 하나의 태양광 어레이를 다수의 계통연계형 태양광 PCS가 공유하는 형태인데, 이러한 시스템의 주요 장점은 첫째, 일사량에 따라 각각의 PCS가 모두 정격에서 운전하도록 하여 변환효율을 개선할 수 있다는 점과 둘째, 태양광 어레이의 용량 확장에 따른 PCS 장치의 용이한 확장성 그리고 셋째, 연결되어 있는 다수의 PCS 중 하나의 태양광 PCS가 고장으로 인하여 유지 및 보수가 필요할 때에도 그 외의 다른 정상적인 태양광 PCS는 지속적인 발전이 가능한 장점 등을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 태양광 어레이의 출력을 공유하는 병렬운전용 태양광 PCS의 구성에 대하여 연구하고, 그 병렬운전기법을 제시하여 이에 대한 타당성을 시뮬레이션으로 검증하고자 한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1918-1927
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• 2016

This paper proposes active frequency drift (AFD) as an anti-islanding method applied to micro-inverters with uncontrollable reactive power. When using ordinary inverter topologies, such as full bridge inverters in photovoltaic systems, the islanding phenomenon can be detected with reactive power-based methods, such as reactive power variation. However, when the inverter topology cannot control the reactive power, conventional anti-islanding methods with reactive power cannot be utilized. In this work, the topology used in this paper cannot control the reactive power. Thus, an anti-islanding method that can be used in topologies that cannot control the reactive power is proposed. The conventional anti-islanding method of the topology that cannot control reactive power is introduced and analyzed. Unlike the conventional AFD method, the proposed method extends a zero current interval every predetermined cycle. The proposed method offers certain advantages over conventional AFD methods, such as total harmonic distortion. The proposed method is validated through simulation and experiment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.235-238
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• 2007

This paper presents an efficient data storage and reconstruction method in data acquisition and processing of monitoring system. The proposed method extracts minimum data using an interpolation from raw data which are acquired from a target system. The algorithm for data acquisition and reconstruction is based on Cubic Hermite interpolation. To verify the validity of the proposed scheme, we presents simulation results and it is applied to a monitoring system for grid-connected photovoltaic power generation system to prove the high-performance of the proposed method.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.511-521
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• 2014

This study proposes an electric vehicle (EV) smart panel board and its control method on the basis of charging scheduling. The proposed system consists of batteries, a three-phase battery charger, three single-phase inverters, transfer switches for electric power distribution, and a controller. The three-phase battery charger usually charges the batteries at midnight when electric rates are cheap and in light load. When the electric power consumption of the EV standard chargers connected to one phase of the power line is relatively large or when a blackout occurs, the electric power stored in the battery is supplied by discharging through the inverters to the EV standard chargers. As a result, the value of peak load and the charging electric power quantity supplied from a utility grid are reduced, and the current unbalance is improved. The usefulness of the proposed system is confirmed through simulations, experiments, and case studies.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.65-68
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• 2002

Distributed Generators (DG) are rapidly increasing and most of them are interconnected with distribution network to supply power into the network. Therefore, DG may make significant impacts on distribution system operation. protection, and control with respect to the voltage regulation, voltage flicker, harmonics, fault current levels, the losses of the network, etc. These impacts would be demerits for both of DG and distribution networks. And the operation of DG may be influenced by the abnormal grid condition such as disturbances occurred in the neighboring distribution feeders as well as the feeder directly connected with DG. This paper describes the influence of fault occurred in the interconnected power network on the DG operation and the impact of DG on the network load during the interruptions of utility power.