• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2023

Background: The association between exposure to extremely low frequency-magnetic fields (ELF-MF) and childhood leukemia has been controversial. There is a need to clarify this relationship by summarizing key conclusions from systematic review articles. Objectives: The major aim of this study is to summarize key conclusions from systematic review articles on the association between exposure to ELF-MF and childhood leukemia based on childhood exposure to ELF-MF, proximity from childhood household to high voltage cables, and parental occupational exposure to ELF-MF. Methods: This study was conducted through a brief literature review focusing on systematic, meta-analysis, and pooled analysis methods. We conducted a literature search in PubMed using the key words "ELF-MF" and "childhood leukemia" singly or combined. Results: In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO)'s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reviewed two manuscripts to conduct pooled analysis and concluded that there is a significant association between exposure to >0.3 μT or 0.4 μT and childhood leukemia. We found a total of four manuscripts for systematic or pool analysis that have been published since the IARC's conclusion. They consistently concluded that there was a significant association between exposure to >0.4 μT and childhood leukemia compared to ELF-MF exposure to below 0.1 μT. The proximity of children's households to high voltage cable lines and occupational exposure by their parents to ELF-MF during certain periods prior to or during pregnancy were inconsistently associated with childhood leukemia. The study found that many EU countries have implemented precautionary policies to prevent potential childhood leukemia due to exposure to ELF-MF. Conclusions: This study recommends implementing a precautionary policy that includes legal exposure limits for ELF-MF to minimize exposure to ELF-MF.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.42-47
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• 2010

Polymer insulating materials such as cross linked polyethylene (XLPE) are employed in electric cables used for extra high voltage. These materials can degrade due to chemical, mechanical and electric stress, possibly caused by voids, the presence of extrinsic materials and protrusions. Therefore, this study measured discharge patterns, discharge phase angle, quantity and occurrence frequency as well as changes in XLPE under different temperatures and applied voltages. To quantitatively analyze the irregular partial discharge patterns measured, the discharge patterns were examined using a statistical program. A three layer sample was fabricated, wherein the upper and lower layers were composed of non-void XLPE, while the middle layer was composed of an air void and copper particles. After heating to room temperature and $50^{\circ}C$ and $80^{\circ}C$ in silicone oil, partial discharge characteristics were studied by increasing the voltage from the inception voltage to the breakdown voltage. Partial discharge statistical analysis showed that when the K-means clustering was carried out at 9 kV to determine the void discharge characteristics, the amount discharged at low temperatures was small but when the temperature was increased to $80^{\circ}C$, the discharge amount increased to be 5.7 times more than that at room temperature because electric charge injection became easier. An analysis of the kurtosis and the skewness confirmed that positive and negative polarity had counterclockwise and clockwise clustering distribution, respectively. When 5 kV was applied to copper particles, the K-means was conducted as the temperature changed from $50^{\circ}C$ to $80^{\circ}C$. The amount of charge at a positive polarity increased 20.3% and the amount of charge at a negative polarity increased 54.9%. The clustering distribution of a positive polarity and negative polarity showed a straight line in the kurtosis and skewness analyses.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.158-165
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• 2022

Eco-friendly policies proposed by the government of The Republic of Korea have encouraged the use of eco-friendly vehicles. Hydrogen vehicles have exhibited the highest growth rate, although the current number of registered vehicles is low. In hydrogen vehicles, a thermally activated pressure relief device (TPRD) is installed to prevent explosions in the hydrogen gas cylinder. When discharged due to low ignition energy, hydrogen gas readily forms a jet flame. The risks induced by such jet flames were analyzed through a numerical analysis. Jet flames can activate TPRDs installed in nearby hydrogen gas cylinders. As a result, high-voltage cables exposed in the lower area of a vehicle can ignite within seconds. There was a 9.5-kW/m2 area around the vehicle (which can result in casualties) at a distance of ~5 m from the hydrogen gas cylinder, and a 37.5-kW/m2 area (which can cause significant damage) in the form of an inverted triangle toward the lower section of the vehicle. We believe that the risk factors analyzed herein should be considered for addressing accidents in hydrogen vehicles.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권9호
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• pp.1583-1589
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• 2016

This paper proposes an improved spread spectrum time domain reflectometry (ISSTDR) using time-frequency correlation and reference signal elimination method in order to have more accurate fault determination and location detection than conventional (SSTDR) despite increased signal attenuation due to the long distance to cable fault location. The proposed method has a two-step process: the first step is to detect a peak location of the reference signal using time-frequency correlation analysis, and the second step is to detect a peak location of the correlation coefficient of the reflected signal by removing the reference signal. The proposed method was validated through comparison with existing SSTDR methods in open-and short-circuit fault detection experiments of low voltage power cables. The experimental results showed that the proposed method can detect correlation coefficients at fault locations accurately despite reflected signal attenuation so that cable faults can be detected more accurately and clearly in comparison to existing methods.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.34-38
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• 2002

In this paper, efficiency estimation of toxicity fee fire resistance cable experiments was measured smoke density of toxicity free fire resistance polyolefin insulation material and electric field dependence of tree shape in low density polyethylene (LDPE). One of the most serious causes of failure in high-voltage cables, can be an electrical discharge across an internal gab or void in the insulating material. Treeing due to partial discharge is one of the main causes of breakdown in the insulating materials and reduction of the insulation life. Therefore the necessity for establishing a method to diagnose the aging of insulation materials and to predict the breakdown of insulation and research of the fire resistance character has become important. First, we have studied on electric field dependence of tree shape in LDPE about treeing phenomena occurring on the high electrical field. Second, the measurement method is the attenuation quantity of irradiation by smoke accumulating with in a closed chamber due to non-flaming heat decomposition and flaming combustion. A main cause of fire-growth and generating toxic gas when, it bums, should be dealt with great care in life. safety design. The fire gases were occurred carbon monoxide and decomposition than in polyolefin due to incomplete combustion of PVC, which has high content of carbon in chemical compound.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.239-245
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• 2013

발전소 내 고압 단자대 및 전력구 케이블 인입부에서 주변 전력기기들의 지속적인 진동 및 순간적인 충격의 발생으로 케이블 단자 또는 접속부 접촉점에 열화가 발생하는 사고가 일어난다. 접촉점에서의 열화 발생은 큰 사고로 이어질 수 있으며 안정적으로 전력을 공급해야 하는 발전소에서는 열화 발생을 예측하기 위한 다양한 연구가 시도되고 있다. 이에 비접촉식 적외선 센서를 이용하여 온도를 측정하는 방식이 있으며 이러한 방식의 궁극적인 목적은 측정하고자 하는 대상체를 최적의 거리에서 감시함으로 접촉점의 열화 발생뿐 아니라 센서 측정범위 내의 열화의 상태도 감시하는 데 있다. 연결부 온도를 측정하고 열화 상태를 실시간 감시하여 사용자에게 가시, 가청 알람을 주어 사용자가 열화사고를 인지하여 미연에 방지할 수 있게 한다. 그러나 이러한 시스템을 구축하기 위해서는 감시 장치를 설치, 운영해야 하는 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 설치 용이성을 고려하여 소출력 배터리 동작모듈로 접속부의 온도를 측정하고 이를 감시할 수 있는 적외선센서를 이용한 무선감시시스템을 개발하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.626-630
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• 2007

The AC loss is an important issue in the design of the high temperature superconductor (HTS) power cables and fault current limiters. In these applications, a cylindrical HTS conductor is often used. In commercialization of these apparatuses, AC loss is a critical factor but not elucidated completely because of complexities in its measurement, e.g. non-uniform current distribution and phase difference between currents flowing in an individual HTS tape. We have prepared two cylindrical conductors composed of a Bi-2223 tape with different critical current density. In this paper, the AC loss characteristics of the conductors have been experimentally investigated and numerically analyzed. The result show that the measured losses for two conductors are not dependent on both arrangements and contact positions of a voltage lead. This implies that most of loss flux is only in the conductors. The loss for the Bi-2223 conductor with low critical current density is in good agreement with the calculated loss from Monoblock model, whereas the loss measured for the Bi-2223 conductor with high critical current density doesn't coincide with the loss calculated from the Monoblock model. The measured loss is also different from numerically calculated one based on the polygon model especially in low transport current.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.798-804
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 고주파 회로 모델링을 이용하여 전기자동차의 LDC로부터 방출되는 전도성 전자파 잡음을 시스템-레벨에서 분석하였다. 관련 전도 방출의 주요 원인은 LDC에서 사용하는 펄스폭 변조 방식의 100 kHz 스위칭 동작에 기인하며, 이러한 전도 방출은 공통-임피던스 결합 및 유도성 결합을 통해 AM/FM 주파수 대역에서의 무선주파수 간섭을 유발한다. 이러한 문제를 분석하기 위해 LDC를 구성하고 있는 MOSFET과 고압 커패시터, 고전압 케이블과 버스 바에 대한 기본 회로는 물론, 각 부분에서 존재하는 기생 성분 및 비선형 특성을 해석하여 LDC 전체를 포함한 시스템-레벨의 고주파 등가회로 모델을 제안하였다. 이러한 모델을 이용하여 시뮬레이션과 측정을 비교하여 유사성을 검증하였다. 향후 이러한 접근 방법이 전기자동차의 전자파 적합성 설계에 효과적으로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국결정학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.141-148
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• 2005

It is well known that the general metals have a lot of grain boundaries. The grain boundaries play a negative role to increase the resistivity and to decrease the conductivity. The small resistivity and the large conductivity have been a goal of the material scientists, and no signal noise, perfect signal transfer, and the realization of the real sound are the dream of electronic engineers and audio manias. Generally, oxygen free copper (OFC) and Ohno continuous casting (OCC) copper cables have been used for the purpose of the precise signal transfer and low noise. However they still include a lot of grain boundaries. In our study, we have grown the single crystal by the Czochralski method and succeeded to produce single crystal wires from the crystal in the dimension of $0.5{\times}0.5{\times}2500mm$. The produced wire still possesses very good single crystal properties. We observed the structure of the wire, and measured the resistance and impedance. Glow Discharge Spectrometer (GDS) was used for analyzing the compositions of copper single crystals and commercial copper. Current-Voltage curve, resistance, total harmonic distortion and speaker frequency response were measured for comparing electrical and acoustic properties of two samples.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 270/540/750/1500-Mb/s 동작속도를 갖는 영상신호 전송용 시리얼 송신기 칩을 $0.13-{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 이용하여 구현하였다. 전송 채널은 저가형 RG-58 계열의 5C-HFBT-RG6T 동축 케이블로서, 싱글 BNC 커넥터로 연결되어 있으며, 1.5-GHz 주파수에서 케이블 손실은 최대 45 dB이다. 이를 RLGC 모델링을 통해 SPICE용 회로로 구현하였고, 케이블 손실측정결과와 매우 유사한 특성을 갖는다. 신호감쇄의 보상은 송신기 회로의 프리앰퍼시스 기능 및 수신단의 이퀄라이저 기능을 통해 복원하며, 송신기 칩의 측정 결과 270-Mb/s, 540-Mb/s, 750-Mb/s 및 1.5-Gb/s 동작속도를 모두 만족하며, 프리앰퍼시스 기능을 OFF 했을 때에도 1.5 Gb/s에서 $370-mV_{pp}$ 출력전압을 갖는다. 칩의 전력소모는 1.2/3.3-V 전원전압으로부터 104 mW, 칩 면적은 I/O 패드를 포함하여 $1.65{\times}0.9mm^2$ 이다.