• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1181-1187
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• 2015

Sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆) gas is used widely in electric power equipment such as Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS), Gas Insulation transmission Line (GIL), and Gas Circuit Breaker (GCB). But applications of SF₆ should be restricted because SF6 gas is one of the greenhouse effect gases. To reduce use of SF₆ gas, a study on eco-friendly alternative insulation medium is needed. In this paper, we investigated lightning impulse (LI) breakdown of dry-air which is attracting attention as an ecofriendly alternative gas and the LI breakdown of hybrid insulation combined with dry-air and solid insulation (Room-Temperature Vulcanizing Silicone Rubber-RTV SIR) and dry-air in inhomogeneous fields according to gap distance and pressure. The experiment results showed that the LI breakdown strength of hybrid insulation system was higher than that of dry-air insulation system. It was verified that the development of technology related to eco-friendly power apparatus compact such GIS, GCB and GIL can be used as basic research data.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.285-286
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• 2008

The Gas Circuit Breaker for the Main Transformer of voltage, 154kV at the ist Hapcheon hydraulic power station, break down by the falling of a thunderbolt from now, let's improve the efficiency on the maintenance of generating equipment by studying about the cause and the method for this problem.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.1677-1681
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• 2002

A computational approach of the arc quenching process in GCB was developed. it is capable to calculates the thermodynamic quantities of the gas as a function of time taking into account of all spaces concerned with the arc quenching. Basically using so-called FLIC method, this program adoptes 'Simplified Enthalpy Arc Model', which is somewhat modified. And, to examine whether our works were done properly, it was simulated the whole process of the arc quenching that is based on self-flow generation phenomena/current interruption in a thermal expansion type circuit breaker. This program was verified by experiments, both showed fairly good agreement.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.345-348
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• 1999

An arc model based on the N-S equations modified by adding an energy source term to take account of the arc is developed and solved using Taylor-Garlerkin FEM in the present paper. The numerical method is applied to the simulation of the opening procedure of a puffer type GCB. Moving boundary conditions of the arc chamber during operation is taken into account. Numerical predictions of the temperature profiles at different strokes are presented.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07a
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• pp.37-39
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• 1998

This paper presents the pressure-rise of the puffer cylinder in a model gas circuit breaker and the analyzed results of thermal interruption capability in SLF(short line fault) to the diameter of the puffer cylinder. This paper can be applied to the design of the EHV interrupter.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.233-240
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• 1999

The current carrying conductor and the tank which consist of GIS must be properly designed to withstand the electrical, thermal and mechanical stresses that arise during normal service and during short-circuit conditions. In order to design the current carrying conductor for EHV GIS, it is important to consider temperature-rise when rated current flows. In this paper, we analyze magnetic field distribution and power-loss, according to the change of materials when AC current flows into single-phase and three-phase bus bar, respectively. These results will be used as the basic design data when determining dimensions and materials for the current carrying conductor of EHV GIS.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.60-62
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• 2003

본 연구는, 초고압 GIS(Gas Insulated Switchgear)용 GCB(Gas Circuit Breaker)의 3상 배치구조를 설계 하기 위한 상간, 대지간의 절연성능을 평가하였다. 피임펄스 전압과 상용주파 전압인가시 상간, 대지간의 절연설계 기준과 비교하여 절연설계 안전율을 고려하여 설계에 적용하였다. 수치적 전계 해석법으로 3차원 전계 해석법과 2차원 축대칭 전계 해석법을 통해 전계 강도를 비교하였으며 3차원 전계 해석법으로는 경계 요소법(Boundary Element Method)을 사용하는 상용프로그램인 coulomb을 사용하였으며, 2차원 전계 해석법으로는 유한요소법(Finite Element Method)을 사용하는 Maxwell을 통해 절연성능 평가를 하였다. 마지막으로, 전계 해석을 통해 절연설계 기준에 적합한 상배치 구조 설계를 하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• summer
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• pp.971-973
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• 2004

본 논문에서는, 초고압 GIS(Gas Insulated Switchgear)용 GCB(Gas Circuit Breaker)의 3상 배치구조 설계를 위한 상간, 극간, 대지간의 절연성능을 평가하였다. 뇌임펄스 전압과 상용주파 전압인가 시 상간, 극간, 대지간의 절연설계 기준을 근거로 절연설계 안전율을 고려하여 설계에 적용하였다. 수치적 전계 해석법으로 3차원 전계 해석법과 2차원 축대칭 해석법을 이용하였으며 절연설계 여유율과 현장에서의 절연파괴 시험을 통한 데이타와 비교 분석하였으며, 분석한 결과 절연설계 기준에 적합한 상배치 구조 설계임을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.480-480
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• 2008

Vacuum circuit breaker(VCB) is now emerging as an alternative of gas circuit breaker(GCB) which uses SF6 gas as insulating material whose dielectric strength is outstanding. But we have to reduce SF6 gas because SF6 gas is one of greenhouse gas and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas are now trend of the world. Therefore, we can say VCB is the optimal alternative of GCB because vacuum is environmentally friendly. The vacuum interrupter is the core part of VCB to interrupt arcing current. There are mainly two methods to extinguish arc. One is radial magnetic field (RMF) method and the other is axial magnetic field (AMF) method. We deals with RMF method in this paper. Compared with AMP, RMF arc quenching method has different principle to extinguish arc. In case of RMF method, pinch effect is much larger than AMF method. Because of pinch effect RMF type contact electrodes have the single large spot which is severly damaged and melted while AMF type contact electrodes have small and multiple spots which are slightly damaged and melted. To prevent contact electrode being damaged and melted from high temperature-arc, RMF method uses Lorentz force to move arc. In this paper we calculated and compared the arc driving force of two cases and we analyzed the force acting on each part of arc by means of commercial finite element method software Maxwell 3D. They have 3petals and we considered two cases. One is the case when fixed(upper) and movable(lower) contacts are in mirror arrangement (Case 1). The other is the case when one of two contacts (movable contact) is revolved at maximum angle as possible as it can be (Case 2). And at each case above, we analyzed arc driving force at two positions, position 1 is the closest to the center of contact and position 2 is near the edge of petal on fixed contact. As a result we could find that Case 2 generated stronger arc driving force than Case 1 at position 1. But at position 2 Case 1 generated stronger arc driving force than Case 2. This simulation method can contribute to optimizing spiral-type electrode designs in a view of arc driving force.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.495-496
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• 2011

기존에 사용되고 있는 초고압 가스차단기(GCB : gas circuit breaker)는 대부분 퍼퍼형(puffer type) 소호방식의 가스 차단기를 사용하였다. 퍼퍼형 소호방식은 차단동작에 있어서 대단히 큰 조작력이 요구되고 소호부 size가 큰 단점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 아크 자체의 에너지를 아크 소호에 필요한 압력상승을 일으키는 데 이용하는 자력소호방식(self-extingishing type)에 작은 체적의 퍼퍼 실린더를 병용하는 복합소호방식(hybrid extingishing type) 차단부가 개발되어 사용이 확대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 차단기의 소호방식별 특성을 비교 분석하고 최근 사용이 확대되고 있는 복합소호방식 차단기의 고장사례 분석을 통해 개선대책을 제시하였다.