• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 모의 GIS 내부에 도전성 파티클, 미소돌기, 연면방전을 모의함으로 전하의 축적과 전계의 집중이 용이하도록 하여 부분방전을 모의하였다. 이때 부분방전 발생과 진전에 따른 방사전자파를 스펙트럼 분석기와 EMI EMC 측정용 안테나($30{\sim}2,000[MHz]$)를 사용하여 측정 분석하였다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 0.3[GHz]에서 1.7[GHz]대역에서 UHF법을 활용한 절연진단이 가능한 UHF 구형 센서를 설계하였다. 이러한 연구결과는 $SF_6$를 사용하는 실제 GIS 및 전력설비의 UHF 절연진단 시스템에 적용 가능한 UHF 진단센서로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권8호
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• pp.1632-1638
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• 2011

Electric cables are one of the most important components in a nuclear power plant since they provide the power needed to operate electrical equipment. Despite their importance, cables typically receive little attention since they are considered passive, long-lived components that have been very reliable over the years when subjected to the environmental conditions for which they were designed. The operating experience reveals that a defect of the insulator or poor construction causes the initial failure of cable. However, the number of cable failures increase with plant aging, and these cable failures are occurring within the plants' 40-year licensed period. These cable failures have resulted in plant transients, shutdown, loss of safety functions or redundancy, entries into limiting conditions for operation, and challenges for plant operators. Therefore, diagnosis of MV cable installed in NPPs has become one of the most urgent issues in recent years. In accordance with PSR, condition maintenance for cables is also continuously required. Recently, HFPD tests have been widely performed to diagnose cable in the transmission and distribution cable system. However, on-line HFPD wasn't used in the NPPs because of the danger of plant shutdown, measurement sensitivity and application problems, etc. In this paper, HFPD measurement with portable device was performed to evaluate the integrity of the 4.16kV & 13.8kV cable lines. The test results show that HFPD is highly attractive to the diagnosis of MV cables in NPP by high detection sensitivity on-site.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1686-1693
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• 2014

In this paper, oil-paper samples composed of transformer windings were used to investigate the insulation degradation process subjected to partial discharge (PD), with artificial defects inside to simulate the PD induced insulation degradation. To determine appropriate test voltages, the breakdown time obtained through a group of accelerated electrical degradation tests under high voltages was firstly fitted by two-parameter Weibull model to acquire the average breakdown time, which was then applied to establish the inverse power law life model to choose advisable test voltages. During the electrical degradation process, PD signals were synchronously detected by an ultra-high frequency (UHF) sensor from inception to breakdown. For PD analysis, the whole degradation process was divided into ten stages, and chaos theory was introduced to analyze the variation of three chaotic parameters with the development of electrical degradation, namely the largest Lyapunov exponent, correlation dimension and Komogorov entropy of PD amplitude time series. It is shown that deterministic chaos of PD is confirmed during the oil-paper degradation process, and the obtained results provide a new effective tool for the diagnosis of degradation of oil-paper insulation subjected to PD.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기물성,응용부문
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• pp.173-175
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• 2002

In general, CT and Shunt have been traditionally used as a sensor for detecting the partial discharges in order to diagnose the present insulation state of the electric power apparatus. The former is very convenient for the practical application since it is not only non-contact method but its frequency bandwidth and resonance frequency could be designed for its specific application. However, it has been proved to have poor linearity and low sensitivity. For the latter, even though it is an ideal sensor, noise from the power source and the ground could flow into the system. Furthermore, the surge current could be easily come into the measuring systems giving rise to a severe breakdown. In this respect, a hybrid sensor has been designed and fabricated in order to overcome the shortcoming of these two types of sensors. For this purpose, the experimental comparison with commercialized products has been also carried out. In this concept of the hybrid sensor, two different impedances could provide the passage of the signals. In this way, the discrimination of the noise could be accomplished very effectively with high ratio of signal over noise(S/N) under the little influence from the external noises and the breakdown.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.858-864
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• 2017

This study aims to restrain free conducting wire-type particles which are commonly and dangerously existing within DC gas-insulated transmission lines. A realistic platform of a coaxial cylindrical electrode was established by using a high-speed camera and a partial discharge (PD) monitor to observe the motion, PD, and breakdown of these particles. The probabilities of standing or bouncing, which can be affected by the length of the particles, were also quantitatively examined. The corona images of the particles were recorded, and particle-triggered PD signals were monitored and extracted. Breakdown images were also obtained. The air-gap breakdown with the particles was subjected to mechanism analysis on the basis of stream theory. Results reveal that the lifting voltage of the wire particles is almost irrelevant to their length but is proportional to the square root of their radius. Short particles correspond to high bouncing probability. The intensity and frequency of PD and the micro-discharge gap increase as the length of the particles increases. The breakdown voltage decreases as the length of the particles decreases.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 E
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• pp.2290-2292
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• 1999

The Ultra-High Frequency(UHF) method for detecting a partial discharge in Gas-Insulated Substation(GIS) has some advantages compared to a conventional method(IEC 270) but there is a shortage in view of a quantitative analysis. Therefore, this paper describes the implementation of a calibrator and the calibration process based on it. And its characteristics are confirmed through the experiment using the 362kV GIS chamber.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1726-1728
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• 2003

The aging diagnosis method using partial discharge measurement detects discharge signals that critical cause of failure in insulation material operated a long time and can diagnose aging state of insulation materials with an aging analysis algorithm. The HFPD measurement method is a technique to analyze aging state of high voltage insulation materials and detect higher frequency signals than conventional PD measurement method therefore it takes less noise effect and could execute active line measurement. It is possible to analyze main discharge phenomena and obtain access to aging progress occurred in insulation materials through accumulation of HFPD signals during determined interval and expression of fractal dimension using statistical process of accumulated signals. The HFPD signals that occurred in each applied voltages are measured during 180 cycles and accumulated to the same phase of one cycle. These patterns that made by previous method are normalized with logarithm function and than inputted to neural networks. The aging diagnosis of insulation material was possible and the recognition ratio of neural network appeared very high.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2011년도 제42회 하계학술대회
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• pp.2061-2062
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• 2011

국내 원자력발전소에 설치되어 있는 고압케이블은 장기운전에 따라 열화진단 및 유지보수의 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 주기적 안전성 평가(Periodic Safety Review) 및 계속운전과 관련하여서도 고압케이블의 관리방안이 지속적으로 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 원자력발전소에 설치되어 있는 13.8kV급 고압케이블의 건전성을 확인하기 위하여 원자력발전소 계획예방정비 중 열화진단을 수행한 결과를 소개하고 있다. 특히 미국 NRC(Nuclear Regulatory Commission)에서는 케이블 진단 기법 11가지를 권고하고 있는데 본 논문에서는 그 중 국내 원자력발전소에 적용이 가능한 최신 케이블 진단 기술인 HFCT(High Frequency Current Transformer)를 이용한 부분방전(Partial Discharge ; PD) 측정, VLF(Very Low Frequency) 장치를 이용한 $Tan{\delta}$ 측정 및 열화상카메라를 이용한 케이블 온도 측정을 사용하여 고압 케이블 진단을 실시하였고, 그 결과를 서술하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2011년도 제42회 하계학술대회
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• pp.2067-2068
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• 2011

국내 원자력발전소에 설치되어 있는 고압케이블은 장기 운전에 따라 열화진단 및 유지보수의 필요성이 증대되고 있으며, 주기적 안전성 평가(Periodic Safety Review) 및 계속운전과 관련하여서도 고압케이블의 관리방안이 지속적으로 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 원자력발전소에서 경년열화로 진단되어 철거된 케이블을 수거하여 VLF(Very Low Frequency) 장비를 사용하여 가압을 한 후 HFCT(High Frequency Current Transformer)를 이용한 부분방전(Partial Discharge ; PD) 측정을 수행하여 향후 원자력발전소 계획예방정비 시 케이블을 대상으로 Off-line 부분 방전 진단이 가능한지를 검토하였고, 그 결과를 기술하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.7
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• pp.503-504
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• 2006

This paper describes a low-level partial discharge(PD) testing that has been accepted as a non-destructive test method on insulation performance of electronic components. A comparative PD analysis combined with the Withstand Voltage Test (WVT) specified in IEC standards is carried out on high frequency switching transformers. The analysis shows that insulation degradation of the transformers under test progresses during the WVT. To avoid insulation degradation of the specimen, PD test has to be carried out at as low voltage as possible. In this study, the PD test on the transformers is performed in ranges from 50% to 70% of the test voltage specified in the WVT by measuring apparent charges below 1 pC. From the experimental results, it is expects that the low-level PD test is applicable for electronic components as a replacement of the WVT.