• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.272-276
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• 2010

Renewable energy sources are considered to be environment-friendly alternatives those are increasingly introduced in the power systems. Microgrid is one of the systems in which renewable sources have a main role as a energy suppliers. Decision of constitution rates of renewable energy sources is very important for the economical and stable operation of microgird systems. In this paper, we present a method to assess an optimal constitution rate of renewable sources especially of windturbine and photovoltaic systems.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.1
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• pp.36-42
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• 2011

This paper mainly proposes the protective coordination scheme of the microgrid system. The microgrid protection is identical to the conventional protection system separating the normal part and contingency part to reduce damage when the contingency occur at power cables, facilities. But they are different in the protection type. The conventional protection system only considers unidirectional current. However the microgrid protection should be considered not only unidirectional current but also backfeed current because various microsources and loads are installed in the microgrid system. In case the contingency occurs in microsource, when microgrid is interconnected to grid, the protection system should be configured to not separate microgrid from grid before the microsource is isolated to microgrid. And in case of fault occur in power system, the microsources should not isolated to microgrid before the static switch at PCC is tripped to separate from power system. Considering these characteristic of microgird, this paper proposes the protective coordination scheme of microgrid and implemented the on-line real time monitoring system. Especially in case the microgrid is connected to low voltage distribution system with 220/380V voltage level, the proposed protection method with power IT technology can solve the problems when the existing protective devices only applied to the microgrid system.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.290-291
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• 2010

도통손실이 작고 경제적인 SCR을 이용하여 마이크로그리드에 적용이 가능한 25 [kVA]급 SSCB(Solid-State Circuit Breaker)를 설계하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 3상 단락 사고시의 SSCB 동작특성을 살펴보았고 계통의 용량에 따른 커패시터의 설계값을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.207-208
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 DC 마이크로그리드(MG) 동작의 신뢰성 및 안정성을 향상시키기 위하여, 주파수 변동을 이용한 새로운 DC bus signaling (DBS) 전략을 제안하고자 한다. 제안한 DBS의 경우 스위칭 리플을 사용하여, DC 버스를 통해 연결된 컨버터 등의 소자가 현재 DC bus의 전력에 대한 정보를 얻을 수 있다. DC bus의 전력의 정보는 소비와 생산에 대한 DC bus의 밸런스를 맞추기 위해 사용되고, 이를 통해 각각의 컨버터 동작 영역이 상황에 따라 자동적으로 결정되고, 궁극적으로 자율화 시스템을 구현할 수 있게 된다. 본 논문에서는 DC bus에 나타나는 주파수 성분의 분석 및 변동 전략에 대해 기술하고, 시뮬레이션 및 실험 결과를 통해 제안하고자 하는 알고리즘이 Power Line Communication (PLC) 으로의 가능성과 타당성을 점검하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.516-517
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• 2011

마이크로그리드는 분산전원 또는 계통의 Sag/Swell 및 단락사고, 지락사고 등으로 인한 정전 발생 시에 사고 지점을 제외한 독립운전이 가능해야 한다. 따라서 사고 발생지점을 신속하게 분리할 수 있는 기술이 필요하다. 이러한 배경으로 본 연구에서는 신속하게 사고지점을 차단하는 고속차단 시스템(TCB :Thyristor Circuit Breaker)을 제안한다. 도통손실이 작고 경제적인 Thyristor를 이용하여 25 [kVA]급 TCB 시스템을 제작하고 사고를 모의하여 사고 발생 시의 TCB 시스템 동작특성에 대해 연구한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.5
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• pp.596-603
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• 2013

The increase of distributed power generation is closely related to interest in microgird including renuable energy sources such as photovoltaic (PV) systems and fuel cell. By the growing interest of microgrid all over the world, many studies on microgrid operation are being carried out. Especially operation technique which is core technology of microgrid is to supply heat and electricity energy simultaneously. Optimal microgrid scheduling can be established by considering CHP (Combined Heat and Power) generation because it produce both heat and electricity energy and its total efficiency is high. For this reason, CHP generation in microgrid is being spotlighted. In the near future, wide application of microgrid is also anticipated. This paper proposes a mathematical model for optimal operation of microgrid considering both heat and power. To validate the proposed model, the case study is performed and its results are analyzed.

• Journal of Advanced Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.237-243
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to develop a vertical wind turbine with antenna structure in microgird environment. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to calculate the basic aerodynamic performance. The pressure resulted from CFD analysis has been mapped on the surface of wind turbine as load condition and the Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) was applied. The stability of the wind turbine was confirmed by checking the deformation and internal stress of wind turbine by wind force.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.233-239
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• 2014

This paper proposes that each converter supplies the power using the proposed droop control for the parallel operation of the converters. The proposed method is easy to increase the power as parallel system in DC distribution. By improving conventional droop-control method used in AC grid newly, a droop controller is designed to apply droop control in DC grid. And the control method of the proposed droop controller is explained particularly. In this paper, by applying the proposed control method to DC distribution system, propriety is verified through the simulation and the experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.26 no.6_3
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• pp.1269-1278
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• 2023

This paper presents an operational technique that can secure the stability of DC-Grid centering on MG operated based on ESS in multiple MG where three DC-based microgrid(MG) are interconnected. MG1(PV 600kWp, ESS 1.5MWh) has an 830Vdc grid voltage, MG2(PV 300kWp, ESS 1.1MWh) and MG3(PV 100kWp, ESS 500kWh) are DC-based MG with a 750Vdc grid voltage, and MG1 and MG2, 3 are linked by separate DC/DC converters (BTB). In order to keep different grid voltages stable, the power transmission capacity between MG1 and two MG(MG2, MG3) connected with an independent BTB converter was adjusted to secure the overall stability of the system, and this was verified by confirming that the surplus capacity of ESS was maintained in actual operation.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2024

In order to increase the use of electric vehicles (EVs) and minimize grid strain, microgrid using renewable energy must take an important role. Microgrid may use fossil fuels such as small diesel power, but in many cases, they can be supplied with energy from renewable energy, which is an eco-friendly energy source. However, renewable energy such as solar and wind power have variable output characteristics. Therefore, in order to meet the charging and discharging energy demands of electric vehicles and at the same time supply load power stably, it is necessary to review the configuration of electric vehicle charging infrastructure that utilizes diesel power or electric vehicle-to-grid (V2G) as a parallel energy source in the microgrid. Against this background, this study modelized a microgrid that can stably supply power to loads using solar power, wind power, diesel power, and V2G. The proposed microgrid uses solar power and wind power generation as the primary supply energy source to respond to power demand, and determines the operation type of the load's electric vehicles and the rotation speed of the load synchronous machine to provide stable power from diesel power for insufficient generations. In order to verify the system performance of the proposed model, we studied the stable operation plan of the microgrid by simulating it with MATLAB /Simulink.