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A Study on application of load cutting in emergency (아크로 긴급시 부하차단 적용성 검토)

  • Park Hyun Taek;Kim Jae Chul;Im Sang Gug;Hur Dong Ryol
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.298-300
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    • 2004
  • Arc-furnace facilities consume 9,895,165(MWh) which is about 69.6 Percent of electronic furnace power consumption. and interior of a country demand power have inclosed annual. but becaused of the problem of cost, power plant location, and environment have faced difficulty to electric power supply. In this paper, Examining Load cutting of Arc-furnace that is dominating high weight of industry electric power use. and it is expected to solve easily electric power supply and demand problem by highest Priority load cutting examination of Arc-furnace when electric power supply and demand problem happens to area electric power system when is urgent.

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Operating Characteristics of Arc-induction Type DC Circuit Breaker (아크유도형 DC 차단기의 동작 특성)

  • Park, Sang-Yong;Choi, Hyo-Sang
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.7
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    • pp.981-986
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    • 2018
  • AC(alternating current) CB(circuit breaker) at the fault occurred in the existing AC distribution system is limiting the fault current through zero cross-point. However, DC(direct current) CB does not have zero cross-point. Therefore, arc occurred by on-off operation of DC CB is very huge. Nowadays, many research team are studying the way to decrease breaking time, which is one of the essential conditions in DC CB. We suggested novel arc-induction type DC CB in this paper. The proposed arc-induction type DC CB is composed of the mechanical Arc ring and DC CB. We confirmed the operation of arc-induction type DC CB through the HFSS(High Frequency Structure Simulator) 3D simulation program and performed the experiment for operation characteristics. Results showed that arcing time of the arc-induction type DC CB by using induction ring was faster than existing mechanical DC CB. On the transient system, we confirmed stable operation characteristics of the arc-induction type DC CB through the simulation and experimental results. We expect that the proposed arc-induction type DC CB technology is will go to stay ahead of the existing DC CB technology.

Experimental Investigations Into Low Current Steady State Arcs In A Dual-Airflow Model Interrupter

  • Shin, Young-June;Cho, Yun-Ok;Kim, Jin-Gi;Lee, Jeong-Rim
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1992.07b
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    • pp.961-965
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    • 1992
  • It is well-known that shock waves frequently occur inside the nozzle of the interrupter, and that they play important roles in the arc interruption. A model interrupter with two-dimensional dual-airflow nozzles was used for this experiment. The arc was ignited with 1.4 mil copper wire stretched between the electrodes which were spaced out 56 mm. The arc current of 60 to 230 A was achieved by adjusting the external resistance from 5.5 to 1.6 ohms. The arc tests have been conducted for investigating the air arc characteristics, and the effects of shock waves and nozzle pressure ratios on the arc voltage, the arc resistance, the arc power, and average electric field. The results of these tests have been analyzed to provide insights into the arc characteristics for gas circuit breakers. The average electric field is represented by the function of the arc current to show the negative E-I characteristic explicitly. The effects of shock waves and nozzle pressure ratios are shown to be significant for a circuit breaker performance.

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A Study on the Series Arc Detection in Low-voltage Wiring Systems (저압배선계통에서 직렬아크의 검출에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Il-Kwon;Park, Dae-Won;Choi, Su-Yeon;Park, Chan-Yong;Kim, Hwang-Kuk;Kil, Gyung-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.182-187
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    • 2008
  • This paper dealt with the detection algorithm of series arcing, which is a cause of electric fires in low-voltage wiring systems. To find the distinguished electrical features of series arc, we simulated series arcing by the arc generator specified in UL1699. An electric heater, an inverter-controlled vacuum cleaner, and a phase-controlled incandescent lamp were used as loads to generate series arcing. A high-pass filter (HPF) with the low cut-off frequency of 3 kHz at -3 dB was fabricated and applied to separate the series arc signal from the AC voltage source. The experiment showed that the high frequency signal generates randomly during series arcing, and the phase-controlled incandescent lamp produces high frequency pulses even in normal state. In this case, the magnitude, the width, and the randomness of high frequency signal should be analyzed to estimate series arcing precisely.

Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Columns Using Electric Arc Furnace Oxidizing Slag Aggregates (전기로 산화슬래그 골재를 사용한 철근콘크리트 기둥의 휨 거동)

  • Jung, You-Jin;Lee, Young-Hyun;Kim, Sang-Woo;Kim, Kil-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.267-273
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    • 2012
  • This study is performed to evaluate the flexural performance of reinforced concrete columns with electric arc furnace oxidizing slag aggregates. Electric arc furnace slag is a by-product obtained from the process of refining scrap steel. The electric arc furnace slag can be used as a concrete aggregate, because it mainly consists of CaO and $SiO_2$, similar to natural rocks and minerals. Three rectangular columns with various types of aggregate were cast to test in flexure. All of the test specimens had a cross-section of $250{\times}250$mm and a height of 1,500 mm in test region. The specimens were designed to apply reversed cyclic antisymmetric moment and constant axial force. The experimental results showed that the specimens with electronic arc furnace oxidizing slag aggregates had superior flexural performance than the specimen with natural aggregates.

A Study on Circuit Topology Design for Alarm System Development of Series Arc Fault (직렬 아크사고 경보시스템 개발을 위한 회로 토플로지 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, M.S.;Kwak, D.K.;Choi, J.K.;Kim, K.S.;Park, Y.J.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2016.07a
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    • pp.38-39
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    • 2016
  • Most of fires are electric fires and 78.65% of those fires are caused by electric arc fault. This series arc fault can be caused not only by decrepit wire, pressed wire or contact badness etc. anywhere we use electricity. There are signs of heat release and flame discharge before the arc fire accident happens. This paper proposes a circuit topology for alarm system of series arc fault. We also verify the qualification of system through various arc fault simulator.

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Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of a Vacuum Interrupter (진공 인터럽터의 3차원 유한요소해석)

  • Choi, Seung-Kil;Kang, Hyung-Boo
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.48 no.10
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    • pp.693-698
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    • 1999
  • Vacuum interrupters have a special asymmetric electrode structure to generate an magnetic field and consequently to increase the interrupting ability. Accordingly 2-dimensional analysis has a large analysis error because radial flux can not be considered. In this paper, in order to analyse the electric field distribution of a vacuum interrupter with arc shield more accurately, 3-dimensional finite element method(FEM) is used. The induced electric potentials of floating shield was increased with the gap distance, which is because the relative position of shield is closer to the fixed contact so that the capacitance distribution inside interrupter is varied. The calculated results also show that the induced potential of shield causes electric field distortion so that the maximum value of electric field in a vacuum interrupter with arc shield is higher than that without one.

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Early Traffic Opening-Capable Continuous Multi-Layer Asphalt Pavement Maintenance Method Using Electric Arc Furnace Slag Aggregate and Emulsified Asphalt (전기로슬래그 혼합골재를 이용한 조기교통개방이 가능한 연속 적층식 상온 아스팔트포장 유지보수 공법)

  • Kim, Wan-Sang;Lee, Suck-Hong;Kwon, Mun-Hyun;Choi, Do-Sun
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.117-120
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    • 2007
  • The main purpose of this paper is to introduce the early traffic opening-capable continuous multi-layer asphalt pavement maintenance method using electric arc furnace slag aggregate and emulsified asphalt to the actual construction sites. As well known, the previous surface treatment method of emulsified asphalt mixture have various shortcomings such as long work-time, traffic congestions, plastic deformation and poor evenness. Thus, the proposed method has enabled tile early traffic opening by utilizing the optimized emulsified asphalt after consideration of the climate and road conditions in Korea. The application of the electric furnace slag with $6\;{\sim}\;18\;mm$ thickness is helpful to become a environment-friendly construction method. And also, it has been improved enough to accommodate night-time works of mechanized construction activities for wearing course and control course.

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A Study on Protection Device for Electrical Fire Prevention on Joint/Contact Badness Faults (접속·접촉불량 사고에 의한 전기화재 방지용 보호장치에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Jung-Kyu;Kwak, Dong-Kurl;Lee, Seung-Chul;Lee, Bong-Seob;Park, Young-Jic
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2014.07a
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    • pp.5-6
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    • 2014
  • According to 2013 fire statistical yearbook in the National Emergency Management Agency, the main cause of an electrical fire are classified to short circuit fault, overload fault, electric leakage, partial disconnection, and joint/contact badness. The occurrence factor of fire is electric arc or spark accompanied with electrical faults. Residual Current Protective Devices(RCDs) of high sensitivity type used at single phase (220V) cut off earth leakage and overload but the RCDs can not cut off electric arc or spark to be a main cause of electrical fire. To be improved on such problem, this thesis is proposed to a auxiliary control device for RCD cut off electric arc or spark.

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A Study on Causes and Measures Against Occurrence of Circulating Current in catenary (전차선로 순환전류 발생원인과 대책에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Hag-Su;Min, Kyung-Yun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.816-823
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    • 2007
  • Electric car tract plays the role of supply high electric power to the electric car from the substation by using Pantograph of the electric car. It is always exposed to the external atmosphere, which results in quite substantial fluctuations in current and voltage during operation of electric car. This generates possibility of occurrence of accident at all times. Since range of wiring metallic globe installed on the catenary cannot achieve complete electrical contact, accidents are occurring due to circulating current caused by arc caused by incomplete contact due to occurrence of hairline fracture of Pantograph due to pressure or vibration of wiring. Furthermore, rapid increase in the operational current due to increase in the operational frequency of the electric car is causing erosion and short circuit of the metallic globe at the contact points. This study on arc is generated as current transmitted out of the substation courses through power line or wiring metallic globe other than the main circuit as the current is being collected at the electric car through feeder and feeder divergence device. Accordingly, since heat generated by the arc becomes the cause for generation of circulating current due to melting of metal or softening of metal due to increase in temperature accompanying increase in contact resistance, this research shall describe causes and measures against occurrence of circulation current.

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