• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.522-529
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• 2002

In this paper, computer simulations of the physical Phenomena occurring in the arc region before and after current zero were carried out to evaluate the thermal recovery characteristics of a Laval nozzle. A commercial CFD program "PHOENICS" is used for the simulation and the user-coded subroutines to consider the arcing phenomena were added to this program by the authors. The computed results were verified by the comparison with the test results presented by the research group of GE Co.(General Electric Company). In order to investigate the state of the arc region after current zero, the simulation was carried out with three steps. They are steady state arc simulation, transient arc simulation before current zero, and transient hot-gas flow simulation after current zero. The semi-experimental arc radiation model is adapted to consider the radiation energy transport and Prandtl's mixing length model is employed as the turbulence model. The electric field and the magnetic field were calculated with the same grid structure used for the simulation of the flow field. The post-arc current was calculated to evaluate the thermal recovery characteristics after current zero. Compared with the results obtained by GE Co., it has been found that the critical RRRV(ratio of rise of recovery voltage) will be determined previously by this study.his study.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.7-13
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• 2008

The computational investigation is performed to find out the interaction of arc plasmas with surrounding materials and the thermal flow characteristics in a PASB (Puffer-Assisted Self-Blast) chamber, which is one of new breaking concepts in $SF_6$ switchgears. It is very important to define the flow and mass transfer happened during the full arcing history for further understanding complex physics inside the chamber. In this study, we have considered two diffusion processes by the hot arc plasma, one is PTFE nozzle ablation and the other is Cu electrode evaporation, simultaneously. It was found that the principle of the pressure-rise inside the chamber is confirmed by the computational results and the increase of the electrical conductivity of the residual gas near current zero is critical to the chamber design.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1044-1046
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• 2005

[$SF_6$] 가스차단기를 개발하기 위해서는 차단기가 동작하는 동안에 차단기 내부에서의 유동 파라메터(압력, 밀도, 온도, 속도 등)의 값을 정확하게 분석하는 것이 매우 중요하며, 특히, 아크가 존재할 경우 열가스 이동속도에 대한 분석은 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 small-gap 측정시스템을 이용하여 시험용차단기가 동작할 때 차단부에서 발생하는 열가스의 이동속도를 측정하기 위한 연구내용을 정리하였다.