• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.14-20
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• 2011

The end of design lifetime for Wolsong unit 1 will be reached on 20th November in 2012. So the license renewal documents for the continuous operation of Wolsong unit 1 is under reviewing now. Major components of primary system such as pressure tubes, feeder pipes including delayed neutron monitoring system tubing are being replaced and many components of secondary system are also being repaired. In this paper, the assessment on the wear degradation of delayed neutron monitoring system tubing(on the other hand, DN tube was called) was performed for the ageing management of the same component. The wear defects of this component was one of causes that resulted in heavy water leakage accidents. Therefore design specifications of Wolsong uint 1 and heavy water leakage accidents of pressurized heavy water reactors were reviewed and causes of wear defect for DN tubes were analyzed. Wear propagation equations based on the heavy water leakage history were made and the proper repairing time was possible to be expected if the continued operation was considered. Finally design change items of DN tubes that were conducted for the long term operation of Wolsong unit 1 are introduced.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.04c
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• pp.231-233
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• 2007

본 논문은 신 발전방식 중 하나인 용융탄산염형 연료전지(Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell, 이하 MCFC) 발전시스템에서 생성된 전력을 계통에 안정적으로 변환, 주입하기 위한 계통연계형 전력변환기를 설계, 제작하고 성능 시험을 수행한 결과이다. 250kW급 MCFC 시스템의 정격 사양 및 스택의 운전 형태를 기반으로 250kW급 전력변환기 구조 및 단위기기를 설계하였고 전력변환기는 크게 DC/DC 컨버터부와 DC/AC 인버터부로 구성된다. 본 논문은 MCFC 발전 시스템에 적용되는 전력변환기(Power Conditioning System, 이하 PCS)를 제작하고 성능을 확인하는데 목적이 있다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.341-344
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• 2009

In this paper, protective function evaluation was conducted to determine the performance and safety of a power conditioning system(PCS) for 1kW residential fuel cell system. It is essential to have a power quality, grid-connection and safety of PCS. Even though it is under 500ms by KGS-A410 standard, it is shown a rapid response time of 25ms from input under-voltage test. In terms of output over/under-voltage test, it is shown 29.15 and 79.4ms. Especially using anti-islanding test, it is shown all times under 100ms for combination cases of real and reactive power. We confirmed a rapid response characteristics and safety of PCS. The results of this evaluation are being used to develop a new test protocols of PCS.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.129-136
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• 1997

This paper presents a new economic load dispatch considering atmospheric emissions such as NOx and SO$_2$caused by the operation of fossil-fueled thermal generation in power systems. The proposed method is described for scheduling their output of thermal power units so as to comply with total emission constraint, area emission constraint and the both of those constraints. Also, by using a trade-off curve, representing all dispatch alternatives and conflict between the emission and the fuel cost, the sensitivity analysis of the emission and the fuel cost is applied to this algorithm. By the way, this proposed method is analyzed how dispatch changes as a function of the total environmental cost, and as a function of the relative weighting of individual environmental insults, e.g, NOx and SO$_2$. By applying the proposed method to the system, the usefulness of this method is verified.

• Plant Journal
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.45-51
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• 2014

This study performs several experiments on a newly developed temperature safety system that can be used for residential building heating systems, the heat source of which is derived from a conventional fuel cell. Prior to this, the hot water made from a fuel cell was not used in residential housing but just went to waste. The present safety system is installed in the current underfloor heating system. At first we used the CFD technique to develop a new heat exchanger. The fuel cell must satisfy the thermal conditions of the inlet temperature being $55^{\circ}C$ and the outlet temperature being $60^{\circ}C$. But variations in weather cause fluctuations in the heating water temperature. The experimental results show our new system capable of maintaining the temperature difference within a ${\pm}0.5^{\circ}C$ range. So we believe that our new PFMFC fuel cell stack array is a good candidate for being used in residential heating systems.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.7-20
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• 2014

The optimal woodchip production system was developed and the production cost of a forest woodchip fuel was calculated for utilizing the pitch pine, which covers around 480,000ha nationwide. the marginal price of the woodchip fuel considering the factor of supply price, electricity and heat selling price as well as capacity factor were suggested and the economic sensitivity analysis was conducted for various scenario. The most important variable which determine economic feasibility was a fuel cost for the power generation facility. If the electricity price is higher than the current SMP(System Marginal Price) or the capacity factor is higher than 80%, there fully is a benefit to consume the woodchip fuels produced in the suggested production system in this study. In addition, the additional benefit becomes more obvious when considering REC(Renewable Energy Certificate) and CDM(Clean Development Mechanism). Therefore, it is strongly suggested for domestic power generation sector to utilize the forest biomass fuel to achieve the obligatory target of RPS.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.405-414
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• 2011

Recently, the development of several hundreds of kW scale PCS for fuel cell generation is required as commercialization process of distributed generation systems using high temperature fuel cells such as MCFC begins. This paper proposes and optimized topology suitable for MCFC fuel cell generation system and LCL filter design method considering voltage quality of local loads such as MBOP. An interleaving technique is applied to step-up DC-DC converter, optimized number of phases is determined considering efficiency and volume. Also, a LCL filter design method is proposed considering quality of current injected to the grid as well as that of voltage across the local load. The proposed PCS system is validated through reduced 1kW prototype.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.216-223
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• 2002

Generation facilities of the power system are mainly classified into large-scale concentrated generation and small-scale dispersed generation, but generation planning of the Korea power system has been focusing on the large-scale generation so far. Recently, however, applications of dispersed generation sources including solar cell, fuel cell, wind power, etc. have been rapidly increasing and being strongly promoted, and such generation sources should be comprehensively considered in both planning and operating. Since it is not always possible that the dispersed generation alone meets all the load interconnected to it is especially when a fault occurs, interconnection into the existing utility is desirable and recommended. In relation to wind power generation systems interconnected at the low and extra high voltage levels, this paper performs the simulation and analysis of the system protection and suggests protection coordination plans on various faults which possibly occur.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.696-697
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• 2011

신재생에너지는 기후변화협약 및 화석연료의 고갈 등으로 인해 전력계통으로의 도입 필요성은 증가하고 있으나 경제성 부재로 인해 도입 시 많은 제약이 있었다. 그러나 최근 풍력발전기의 경제성이 확보되고 있는 추세이며 일부 유럽 국가를 중심으로 전력계통에 연계하여 운전하고 있다. 특히 스페인의 경우 풍력발전기의 발전량을 예측하는 시스템을 개발하여 풍력발전량의 간헐적인 출력 특성을 보완하고 이용 효율을 향상시킬 수 있도록 다른 발전설비와 연계하여 전력계통을 운영하고 있으며, 풍력발전량을 고려한 예비력을 산정함으로써 경제적이고 안정적인 전력계통을 유지하고 있다. 또한 풍력발전기의 간헐적인 출력 특성을 보완하기 위해 에너지저장장치와의 협조 운영 가능한 시스템을 구축하는 사례가 증가하고 있으며 우리나라의 제주 스마트그리드 실증사업의 Smart Renewable이 이와 같은 경우라 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 기계학습이론 중 하나인 SVR을 이용한 풍력발전량 예측 시스템을 개발에 대해 기술하였으며, 행원14호기의 풍력발전량 이력데이터를 이용하여 풍력발전량 예측을 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.2253-2260
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• 2009

The typical distribution systems have the power flow from distribution substations (sources) to customers (load) only as one direction. However, in the case where new energy power sources are connected to distribution systems, the output variations of new energy sources to distribution systems, which is so called reverse power flow, may cause the bi-directional power flow. So, the reverse power flow has severe impacts on typical power system, for example power quality problems, protection coordination problems, and so on. Therefore, this paper proposes the algorithm for Multi-functional protection devices in distribution systems in the case where new energy sources are interconnected. The proposed algorithm is verified to show the effectiveness by simulating and experimenting the prototype systems.