• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.148-153
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• 2009

As the increasing of non-linear load, we have a growing interest in power quality. Power quality has come to the voltage quality. Voltage harmonics consist in at the PCC by the non-linear load. Capacitor is generally used for the power compensation and as the passive filter by the serial connection with reactor. Capacitor has low impedance as the frequency increases, so easily fall down by the harmonic component of non-linear load. Small voltage of low-order acts on quite a few at the capacitor by the current increase. In this paper, we measured the magnitude and angle of voltage at the PCC and calculated under the same condition. we checked out that lower voltage of higher order produces current magnification.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권9호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2010

The existing capacitor-testers could only judge the condition of capacitor is normal or abnormal, and could not inform the real characteristics of the tested capacitors. In this research, it has designed the real-time observation of the new capacitor in charge and discharge tester for showing capacitor conditions and classification through wide voltages by regular cycle-tests. And proposed the quality classification algorithm of capacitors for more simple and practical, and approve them by test.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제23권10호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2009

전력용 커패시터는 유도성 부하의 갖은 역율을 보상하기 위해 사용되지만, 전력변환장치 등에 의해 발생하는 고조파를 저감하기 위해 리액터와 함께 사용하기도 한다. 전기품질은 대부분이 전압품질에 관련된 것으로서 부하의 안정적인 동작에 매우 중요하지만, 순간적인 전압강하 또는 순간 전압 융기 발생시와 같이 전압의 크기가 일시적으로 변할 경우 커패시터에 전기적인 스트레스로 작용할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 순간적인 전압강하 및 순간 전압 융기 발생시 커패시터에서의 전압, 전류 및 용량의 변화를 해석하였으며, 커패시터에 리액터를 설치할 경우 순간적인 전압 강하시는 문제가 되지 않지만, 순간 전압 융기 발생 영역에서는 커패시터에 상당한 스트레스를 줄 수 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.763-769
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• 2009

A series voltage compensation(SVC) system is a power-electronics controller that can protect sensitive loads from disturbance in the supply system. Especially, voltage sags are considered the dominant disturbances affecting the power quality. This paper dealt with a system of off-line type voltage sag compensation by using a bi-directional DC/DC converter of environmentally friendly ultra-capacitor. This capacitor is attached to the DC link of SVC through the high-efficiency DC/DC converter in order to compensate the DC link voltage drop during short-term power interruption as voltage sags. Therefore, in this paper, a DC/DC converter to control high-efficiency energy of ultra-capacitor and voltage sag detection algorithm of off-line type SVC systems are newly introduced. According to the results of experimental of prototype system, it is verified that the proposed system has effectiveness of voltage sag compensation using an ultra-capacitor.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제59권4호
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• pp.372-376
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• 2010

Electrolytic capacitors have been widely used in power electronics system because of the features of large capacitance, small size, high-voltage, and low-cost. Electrolytic capacitors, which is most of the time affected by aging effect, plays a very important role for the power electronics system quality and reliability. Therefore it is important to estimate the parameter of an electrolytic capacitor to predict the failure. The estimation of the equivalent series resistance(ESR) is important parameter in life condition monitoring of electrolytic capacitor. This paper proposes a simple technique to measure the ESR of an electrolytic capacitor. This method uses a switching DC/DC boost converter to measure the DC Bus capacitor ESR of power converter. Main advantage of the proposed method is very simple in technique, consumes very little time and requires only simple instruments. Simulation results are shown to verify the performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.386-395
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• 2009

In this paper, a new control algorithm for the dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is proposed to regulate the load terminal voltage during various power quality problems that include sag, swell, harmonics and unbalance in the voltage at the point of common coupling (PCC). The proposed control strategy is an Adaline (Adaptive linear element) Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and is used to control a capacitor supported DVR for power quality improvement. A capacitor supported DVR does not need any active power during steady state because the voltage injected is in quadrature with the feeder current. The control of the DVR is implemented through derived reference load terminal voltages. The proposed control strategy is validated through extensive simulation studies using the MATLAB software with its Simulink and SimPower System (SPS) toolboxes. The DVR is found suitable to support its dc bus voltage through the control under various disturbances.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.207-213
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• 2009

Electrolytic capacitors have been widely used in power electronics system because of the features of large capacitance, small size, high-voltage, and low-cost. Electrolytic capacitors, which is most of the time affected by aging effect, plays a very important role for the power electronics system quality and reliability. Therefore it is important to estimate the parameter of an electrolytic capacitor to predict the failure. This paper proposed a novel fault diagnosis method of an electrolytic capacitor used for voltage smoothing in boost DC converter. The equivalent series resistance(ESR) of electrolytic capacitor estimated from FFT result of filtered waveform of capacitor voltage/current. Main advantage of the proposed method include circuit simplicity and easy implementation. Simulation and experimental results are shown to verify the performance of the proposed method.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.483-489
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• 2009

Electrolytic capacitors are used in variety of equipments as smoothening element of the power converters because it has high capacitance for its size and low price. Electrolytic capacitors, which is most of the time affected by aging effect, plays a very important role for the power electronics system quality and reliability. Therefore it is important to estimate the parameter of an electrolytic capacitor to predict the failure. This objective of this paper is to propose a new method to detect the rise of equivalent series resistor(ESR) in order to realize the online failure prediction of electrolytic capacitor for DC output filter of power converter. The ESR of electrolytic capacitor estimated from RMS result of filtered waveform(BPF) of the ripple capacitor voltage/current. Therefore, the preposed online failure prediction method has the merits of easy ESR computation and circuit simplicity. Simulation and experimental results are shown to verify the performance of the proposed on-line method.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제59권4호
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• pp.378-383
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• 2010

Due to the large capacity and low cost, DC link electrolytic capacitors with of energy storage and voltage regulation are used for almost all types of power converter as the DC/AC inverter or DC/DC converter. Electrolytic capacitor, which is the most of the time affected by the aging effect, plays very important role for the power converter system quality and reliability. Therefore, this paper proposes a simple method to estimate the capacitance variation of an electrolytic capacitor in order to analyze the internal characteristic decrease and worn-out state of an electrolytic capacitor. Simulation results by using capacitor storage energy computation show the validity of the proposed capacitance estimation method.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.313-319
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• 2014

전력계통운영의 목표는 전력시스템의 안정성과 신뢰성을 유지하여 원활한 전력을 공급하는 것이다. 안정적인 전력 공급을 위하여 무효전력과 모선 전압에 대한 고려를 해야 하는데, 모선의 전압을 일정 범위 이내로 유지하기 위하여 커패시터 뱅크를 비롯한 다양한 방안이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 계통 안정도와 전력공급 신뢰도를 상시키기 위한 하이브리드 타입의 커패시터 뱅크 설계 과정에 대하여 기술하였다. 설계 과정에는 커패시터 뱅크의 용량 산정, 리액터 타입 결정 및 리액터 용량 산정과정이 포함된다. 기존의 커패시터 뱅크의 설계과정과 같이 정상상태 Q-V 해석이나 상정사고 분석과 같은 방법을 통하여 무효전력 마진을 계산하여 저전압이 발생하는 모선에 무효전력 보상량을 산정한다. 그리고 고조파 실측을 통해 산출된 개별 고조파의 성분 크기를 기반으로 직렬 리액터의 크기를 산정하는 방식으로 설계과정을 제안하였다. 논문에서는 제안된 방법을 통하여 고조파의 크기가 감소함을 증명하였으며, 특히 5차와 7차 고조파의 저감에 효율적임을 보여주었다.