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Performance Improvement Strategy for Parallel-operated Virtual Synchronous Generators in Microgrids

  • Zhang, Hui;Zhang, Ruixue;Sun, Kai;Feng, Wei
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.580-590
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    • 2019
  • The concept of virtual synchronous generators (VSGs) is a valuable means for improving the frequency stability of microgrids (MGs). However, a great virtual inertia in a VSG's controller may cause power oscillation, thereby deteriorating system stability. In this study, a small-signal model of an MG with two paralleled VSGs is established, and a control strategy for maintaining a constant inertial time with an increasing active-frequency droop coefficient (m) is proposed on the basis of a root locus analysis. The power oscillation is suppressed by adjusting virtual synchronous reactance, damping coefficient, and load frequency coefficient under the same inertial time constant. In addition, the dynamic load distribution is sensitive to the controller parameters, especially under the parallel operation of VSGs with different capacities. Therefore, an active power increment method is introduced to improve the precision of active power sharing in dynamic response. Simulation and experimental is used to verify the theoretical analysis findings.

A Study on the Management System and Participatory Self-Management of the Recreational Fishing in Korea (유어낚시의 관리유형과 자율적 관리진흥에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Go;Park, Jeong-Seok
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.36 no.2 s.68
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    • pp.71-95
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    • 2005
  • As one of the most popular outdoor leisure activities in the world, recreational fishing has a lof of significant meaning in terms of social, economic, and cultural views. However, both not considering an indiscreet fishing activity and environment and not thinking our next generation, fishing circumstance has been deteriorating more and more. Unlike Korea, most advanced countries enact various recreational fishing management and support policies in order to keep sustainable recreational fishing and develop eco-tourism through cooperation with government, fishing industries and civil organizations. This paper consist of the following contents. First, the study attempted to investigate how to operate management system of the recreational fishing dividing into in - land fishing and sea fishing respectively. And it exhibits issues and troubles of the realities of recreational fishing management and related fishing laws and ordinances in Korea. And then, it examines various fishing management schemes in representative advanced nations; U.S., Germany, and Japan. Also, it analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of respective recreational fishing management systems; market - based license system, qualification - based management system, and self- regulatory based management system. In addition, after these three systems are adopted to Korea's recreational fishing condition, we analyzes whether respective management systems fit or not. As a result of this, the optimal management for recreational fishing is the participatory self - management scheme in Korea. Finally, in order to support recreational fishing promotion and encouragement, issues and complementary policies with respect to recreational fishing are introduced.

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A Study of Global Manufacturing Education and Training for Chinese Company Manager

  • Sun, Jing;Tamaki, Kin'ya;Yeh, Shihshui;Takiuti, Noboru
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.252-257
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    • 2014
  • Global economic recession, global market reduction, and the deteriorating economic recession are forcing the industry to reconsider the business plan and strategy related to supply chain regardless of the size of the companies. During the economic recession caused by financial anxiety, development of international collaborative producer is the key theme for a manufacturing industry to get over the situation. Especially, development of high-skilled people who are capable of handling global manufacturing management is the key factor in China which shifted from a world factory to a world market. In this background, we started the international project of global manufacturing education and training for Chinese company managers from 2009. In this paper, based on the research conducted by the universities and companies in China, a design of global manufacturing education and training is proposed. This presented design is based on the theory of Japanese production strategy and investigation of actual conditions for Chinese companies and the research methodology of business management practice with efficiency and productive for international level management organization. The effectiveness of the education design is evaluated by applying the international education and training project of Aoyama Gakuin Human Innovation Consulting Inc. and Vigor Management Technology Association.

Emissions Limits and Measures for Reducing Exhaust Emissions in Marine Diesel Engines (박용 디젤기관의 배기규제 및 배기 배출물 저감 대책)

  • 배명환
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.471-486
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    • 2001
  • The principal trends in the course of emission control legislation are reviewed in this paper. In order to keep such a regulation, moreover, an inquiry ito the concrete technical possibility is conducted through review articles, Also, the composition of exhaust gases emitted from a marine diesel engine are investigated as several samples and the measures that can satisfy the value of regulation are handled with laying stress on the control methods discussed to date. It was concluded that various combined systems can be made to reduce NOx emissions without deteriorating substantially navigation costs since many technologies for reducing NOx emissions are being developed. All heat engines suffer from SOx emissions. There are two methods for reducing SOx emissions: desulfurization from exhaust gas and removal of sulfur composition from fuel oil. However it is necessary to watch the development of these technologies to evaluate which method is more favorable. Heat engines have a big problem in the regulation of environmental pollution from exhaust emissions. In the near future, however, diesel engines may be superior to other heat engines, owing to the high thermal efficiency, although the sales of individual models in dises engines may be prosperous and declining.

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Diagonal bracing of steel frames with multi-cable arrangements

  • Husem, Metin;Demir, Serhat;Park, Hong G.;Cosgun, Suleyman I.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.59 no.6
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    • pp.1121-1137
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    • 2016
  • A large number of structure in the world were build with poor seismic details, with or without any lateral load resisting system like concentrically braced frames and steel plate shear walls. These structures can reveal deteriorating hysteretic behaviors with stiffness and strength degradation. Therefore, seismic retrofitting of such structures for drift control has vital importance. In this study a retrofit methodology has been developed, which involves diagonal bracing of steel frames with different cable arrangements. In the experimental and numerical program 5 different lateral load resisting system were tested and results compared with each other. The results indicated that multi-cable arrangements suggested in this study showed stable ductile behavior without any sudden decrease in strength. Due to the usage of more than one diagonal cable, fracture of any cable did not significantly affect the overall strength and deformation capacity of the system. In cable braced systems damages concentrated in the boundary zones of the cables and beams. That is why boundary zone must have enough stiffness and strength to resist tension field action of cables.

Optimum maintenance scenario generation for existing steel-girder bridges based on lifetime performance and cost

  • Park, Kyung Hoon;Lee, Sang Yoon;Yoon, Jung Hyun;Cho, Hyo Nam;Kong, Jung Sik
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.4 no.5
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    • pp.641-653
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    • 2008
  • This paper proposes a practical and realistic method to establish an optimal lifetime maintenance strategy for deteriorating bridges by considering the life-cycle performance as well as the life-cycle cost. The proposed method offers a set of optimal tradeoff maintenance scenarios among other conflicting objectives, such as minimizing cost and maximizing performance. A genetic algorithm is used to generate a set of maintenance scenarios that is a multi-objective combinatorial optimization problem related to the lifetime performance and the life-cycle cost as separate objective functions. A computer program, which generates optimal maintenance scenarios, was developed based on the proposed method using the life-cycle costs and the performance of bridges. The subordinate relation between bridge members has been considered to decide optimal maintenance sequence and a corresponding algorithm has been implemented into the program. The developed program has been used to present a procedure for finding an optimal maintenance scenario for steel-girder bridges on the Korean National Road. Through this bridge maintenance scenario analysis, it is expected that the developed method and program can be effectively used to allow bridge managers an optimal maintenance strategy satisfying various constraints and requirements.

Optimal Control Policy for Replacements Involving Two Machines and One Repairman

  • Noh, Jang-Kab
    • Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.61-83
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    • 1991
  • There has been a great deal of research dealing with the optimal replacement of stochastically deteriorating equipment and research in queueing systems with a finite calling population. However. there has been a lack of research which combines these two areas to deal with optimal replacement for a fixed number of machines and a limited number of repairmen. In this research, an optimal control policy for replacement involving two machines and one repairman is developed by investigating a class of age replacement policies in the context of controlling a G/M/1 queueing system with a finite calling population. The control policy to be imposed on this problem is an age-dependent control policy, described by the control limit $t^{\ast}$. The control limit is operational only when the repairman is idle; that is. if both machines are working, as soon as a machine reaches the age $t^{\ast}$ it is taken out of service for replacememt. We obtain the ${\epsilon}$-optimal control age which will minimize the long-run average system cost. An algorithm is developed that is applicable to general failure time distributions and cost functions. The algorithm does not require the condition of unimodality for implementation.

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Tensile response of steel/CFRP adhesive bonds for the rehabilitation of civil structures

  • Matta, F.;Karbhari, Vistasp M.;Vitaliani, Renato
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.589-608
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    • 2005
  • There is a growing need for the development and implementation of new methods for the rapid and cost-effective rehabilitation of deteriorating steel structural components to offset the drawbacks related to welding and/or bolting in the field. Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites provide a potential alternative as externally bonded patches for strengthening and repair of metallic structural members for building and bridge systems. This paper describes results of an investigation of tensile and fatigue response of steel/CFRP joints simulating scenarios of strengthening and crack-patching. It is shown that appropriately designed schemes, even when fabricated with levels of inaccuracy as could be expected in the field, can provide significant strain relief and load transfer capability. A simplified elasto-plastic closed form solution for stress analysis is presented, and validated experimentally. It is shown that the bond development length remains constant in the linear range, whereas it increases as the adhesive is deformed plastically. Fatigue resistance is shown to be at least comparable with the requirements for welded cover plates without attendant decreases in stiffness and strength.

Analysis of Monitored Insulation Data Using Standard Deviation of Leakage Current Data in High-Power Cables at a Thermoelectric Power Station (화력발전소 고전력 케이블의 누설 전류 측정 데이터의 표준 편차값을 사용한 절연감시 데이터 분석)

  • Kim, Bo-Kyeong;Um, Kee-Hong
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.245-250
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    • 2017
  • From the instant of installation and operation, power cables start deteriorating. Cable systems can be maintained not only by monitoring the insulation status of the insulation layer and oversheath, but also the insulation status of the terminal and junction in high-voltage power cables. When the cable system (the cable itself and cable junctions combined) deteriorates, fire accidents happen due to dielectric breakdowns. We have invented a device to monitor the deteriorating status of cables, and installed it at Korea Western Power Co. Ltd. located in Taean, Chungcheongnam-do Province. In this paper, we present the results obtained using our device, through analysing and calculating the standard deviation of leakage current from cable insulators attached to the cables. When the standard deviation of analysed leakage current falls below a critical value, a cable system is deemed to be operating safely. But when the standard deviation of analysed leakage current is larger than the critical value, the insulation status of the terminal and junction in the cable system is considered to have seriously deteriorated. The terminal and junction in the relevant system should then be replaced preemptively in order to prevent blackout accidents of cables caused by the suspension of power supply.

Improved Initial Costs Expectation Model based on FPA for Internet Banking System (인터넷 뱅킹 시스템을 위한 개선된 FP 기반 초기 규모 예측 모델)

  • Yun, Gwang Yeul;Yoo, Hae Young
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.139-148
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    • 2014
  • With the development of IT, the financial sector has grown dramatically in Non face-to-face channel. However, because the initial costs calculation model which reflects the characteristics of the financial system does not exist, deteriorating reliability of budget establishment and low-price booking competition appeared. This negative situation leads to degradation of Internet Banking systems and customers who use these financial products have many troubles. Therefore, this paper improves the Initial Costs Expectation Model based on FPA & Expert Judgement Model. And it verified the effectiveness of this model through the regression analysis. As a result, we developed the Initial Costs Expectation Model for Internet Banking systems based on FPA, which is increased in accuracy than existing Cost Expectation Models.