• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.69-74
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• 2015

Recently, energy harvesting technology is increasing due to the fossil fuel shortages. Energy harvesting is generating electrical energy from wasted energies as sunlight, wind, waves, pressure, and vibration etc. Energy harvesting is one of the alternatives of fossil fuel. One of the energy harvesting technologies, the piezoelectric energy harvesting has been actively studied. Piezoelectric generating uses a positive piezoelectric effect which produces electrical energy when mechanical vibration is applied to the piezoelectric device. Piezoelectric energy harvesting has an advantage in that it is relatively not affected by weather, area and place. Also, stable and sustainable energy generation is possible. However, the output power is relatively low, so in this paper, newly designed honeycomb shaped piezoelectric energy harvesting device for increasing a generating efficiency. The output characteristics of the piezoelectric harvesting device were analyzed according to the change of parameters by using the finite element method analysis program. One model which has high output voltage was selected and a prototype of the honeycomb shaped piezoelectric harvesting device was fabricated. Experimental results from the fabricated device were compared to the analyzed results. After the AC-DC converting, the power of one honeycomb shaped piezoelectric energy harvesting device was measured 2.3[mW] at road resistance 5.1[$K{\Omega}$]. And output power was increased the number of harvesting device when piezoelectric energy harvesting device were connected in series and parallel.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.312-321
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• 2012

The electric potential of plasma column is measured with the high voltage probe in a pair of atmospheric plasma jets operated by AC-voltage. According to the polarity of voltage applied to the electrodes, the polarity of plasma column potential has the same polarity of applied voltage. The high potential of plasma column at the side of high voltage electrode is decreased linearly along the plasma column to the ground side. Therefore, the plasma column seams to be a kind of resistor whose resistivity is a few 10s $M{\Omega}/m$. In the experiment of double-jets system, the polarity of plasma potential is verified to be the same polarity to the applied voltage. When the different voltage polarities are applied to the electrodes of double plasma jets, the attractive force is acted between two plumes at the merged plasma and the plasma potential is measured to be low as a few 10s V. When the same polarity of voltage is applied to the electrode, the repulsive force is acted and the plasma potential is measured to be high as a several 100s V at the merged plumes. In the exposure of plasma plume on the bio-substrate with the double plasma jets, the electric shock and thermal damage might be proportional to the plasma power which is the multiplication of the plasma potential and the plasma current.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.21-28
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• 2006

In this paper, the proposed full-bridge high frequency isolated zoo voltage and zero current switching phase shifted pulse width modulation(ZVZCS PS-PWM)DC-DC converter among fuel cell generation system consist of 1.2[kW] fuel cell of Nexa Power Module, full-bridge DC-DC converter to boost the fuel cell low voltage($28{\sim}43[%]$) to 380[VDC] and a single phase full-bridge inverter is implemented to produce AC output(220[VAC], 60[Hz]). A tapped inductor filter with freewheeling diode is newly implemented in the output filter of the proposed full-bridge high frequency isolated ZVZCS PS-PWM DC-DC converter to suppress circulating current under the wide output voltage regulation range, thus to eliminate the switching and transformer turn-on/off over-short voltage or transient phenomena. Besides the efficiency of $93{\sim}97[%]$ is obtained over the wide output voltage regulation ranges and load variations.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2020.08a
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• pp.178-180
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• 2020

기존의 철도차량용 무선전력전송 시스템은 Medium-voltage (MV) 60 Hz 중전압 AC 계통 전압을 Low-voltage (LV) DC로 변환하기 위해 저주파 변압기와 정류기를 사용한다. 하지만 수 MW급의 대전력을 낮은 DC 전압으로 전송하려면 인버터는 수백 A - 수 천 A 이상의 전류용량을 가져야하므로 정류기의 출력 단에 직렬 또는 병렬로 연결된 여러 개의 고주파 변압기를 필요하게 된다 (그림 1참조). 이러한 저주파 변압기, 정류기 및 고주파 변압기는 크고 무거우므로 낮은 전력밀도 및 높은 시스템 가격의 원인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 저주파변압기, 정류기, 고주파 변압기를 사용하지 않는, 여자 코일을 이용한 새로운 멀티레벨 무선전력전송 시스템의 토폴로지를 제안한다. 제안된 멀티레벨 무선전력전송 시스템은 멀티레벨 인버터의 각 출력 단에 여자코일 (excitation coil) 이 연결되어 있다. 이 여자코일들은 급전코일 (transmitter coil) 에 전기적으로는 절연되었지만 자기적으로 강하게 결합된다. 여자코일들이 발생시킨 자기장은 급전코일에 유도전압을 발생시키고, 급전코일에서 수백 A 이상의 큰 전류를 흐르게 하여 급전코일에서 강한 자기장을 발생하도록 한다. 이 자기장은 급전코일과 수 cm 이상 떨어져 자기적으로 약하게 결합된 집전코일 (receiver coil) 에 다시 유도전압을 발생시켜 전력을 전달하게 된다. 제안한 새로운 멀티레벨 무선 전력 전송 시스템은 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증했다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.118-124
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• 2007

This paper presents the effects of the injected number and amplitude of impulse current on the service life of ZnO varistors for low voltages. To analyze the effects of lightning impulse currents on the performance of ZnO varistors, the measurements of resistive leakage current and power dissipation at the power frequency ac voltage before and after the injections of the $8/20[{\mu}s]$ impulse currents were made. As a consequence, the duration and amplitude of resistive leakage current flowing through ZnO varistor were increased with increasing the number of injections of the $8/20[{\mu}s]$ impulse currents. It is desirable that the service life of ZnO varistors should be evaluated as a function of the number and amplitude of lightning impulse current.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.156-164
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• 1986

In the case of boiling on high temperature wall, vapor film covers fully or parcially the surface. This phenomenon, film boiling or transition boiling, is very important in the surface heat treatment of metal, design of cryogenic heat exchanger and emergency cooling of nuclear reactor. Mainly supposed hydraulic-thermal accidents in nuclear reactor are LCCA (Loss of Coolant Accident) and PCM (Power-Cooling Mismatch). Recently, world-wide studies on reflooding of high temperature rod bundles after the occurrence of the above accidents focus attention on wall temperature history and required time in transient cooling process, wall superheat at rewet point, heat flux-wall superheat relationship beyond the transition boiling region, and two-phase flow state near the surface. It is considered that the further systematical study in this field will be in need in spite of the previous results in ref. (2), (3), (4). The paper is the study about the fast transient cooling process following the wall temperature excursion under the CHF (Critical Heat Flux) condition in a forced convective subcooled boiling system. The test section is a vertically arranged concentric annulus of 800 mm long and 10 mm hydraulic diameter. The inner tube, SUS 304 of 400 mm long, 8 mm I.D, and 7 mm O.D., is heated uniformly by the low voltage AC power. The wall temperature measurements were performed at the axial distance from the inlet of the heating tube, z=390 mm. 6 chromel- alumel thermocouples of 76 .mu.m were press fitted to the inner surface of the heating tube periphery. To investigate the heat transfer characteristics during the fast transient cooling process, the outer surface (fluid side) temperature and the surface heat flux are computed from the measured inner surface temperature history by means of a numerical method for inverse problems of transient heat conduction. Present cooling (boiling) curve is sufficiently compared with the previous results.