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A Study on the Development of Harmonic Limit Device for Stabilizing Main Circuit Equipment of Train (열차운행 안정화를 위한 주회로 기기의 고조파 제한장치 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung Joon;Chae, Eun Kyung;Kang, Jeong Won
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.853-861
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    • 2018
  • This paper proposes the application of harmonic constraints to address the problems caused by abnormal voltage increases when electric railway vehicles are running. The AC line that supplies the train with power during operation is used to provide electricity of 25kV/60 Hz, but gradually the size and frequency of harmonics involved in the line are varied with the technological evolution of the railroad vehicle electrical equipment. An increase in heat losses due to the failure of the instrument transformer (PT), the main circuit device, which is a serious problem with the recent train safety operation, or to the main displacement voltage. When high frequency components are introduced through low frequency Transformers of the main circuit device, the high intensity of the components is caused by the high intensity of the core and the current flow of the parasitic core is increased, thus generating heat. To solve this problem, the recent adjustment of the sequence has applied artificial NOTCH OFF of the power converter. However, the method of receiving and controlling the OFF signal operates by interaction between the ground and the vehicle's devices, thus it is invalid in the event of failure, and an actual accident is occurring. Therefore, the harmonic currents were required to prevent possible flow of harmonics, and conducted a study to prevent accidental occurrence of train accidents and to verify feasibility of the device through the simulations of the train's experimental analysis and the simulations of the train for safe operation.

A Study on Automatic Switching System for Fault Locator (고장점 표정반 자동절체 시스템에 대한 연구)

  • Park, Yong-Bum;Lho, Young-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.8927-8932
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    • 2015
  • A directional feeding method at the railway transformer is applied for supplying the power to the electric railway substations, and the pre-installed facilities with common feeder are utilized in preparation for the failure of feeding system and in finding a fault location in case that the catenary failure occurs. However, it is some difficulty in finding the fault location since there is an interface problem with the facilities when the supplying power system operates. In this paper, Auto Fault Locator Transfer Drive System (ALTDS) is designed to search for the fault location efficiently, and the measuring data are obtained and compared with the KORAIL standards. Further, the ground connection test is accomplished 24 times as the verification method, and it is shown that the methodology provides better performance than the existing traditional one.

A study on failure diagnosis examples of Large oil filled transformer using dissolved gas analysis (유중가스분석법을 이용한 대용량 변압기 고장진단 사례 고찰)

  • Park, Jin-Yeub;Park, In-Kyoo;Chin, Soo-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2009.07a
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    • pp.740_741
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    • 2009
  • 발전소에 설치된 대용량 변압기의 고장사례에 절연유 온도에 따른 가스발생 형태, 가연성가스 성분비를 이용한 Rogers Ratio 법, 발생가스별 고장형태 및 원인분석 방법을 적용하여 고장원인을 진단하고 실제 확인된 고장원인을 고찰하였다. 사례 1은 저압측 탭권선이 과열로 손상된 사례로 온도에 따른 가스발생 형태 및 발생 가스별 고장 형태를 이용한 진단결과는 $300^{\circ}C$이상에서 과열이 된 것으로 진단되어 거의 일치하나 Rogers Ratio 법을 적용하면 $150^{\circ}C$ 정도에서 저온과열된 것으로 진단되어 약간의 차이를 보였다. 사례 2는 변압기 철심의 Burr 발생, 철심간 단락으로 인한 과열 및 아크가 발생된 고장으로 가스발생 패턴이 절연유 온도에 따른 가스발생 형태 및 사례 1과는 차이가 있고 특히, 내부 아크에 의해 발생되는 아세틸렌($C_2H_2$)은 계속 증가하는 반면 "Hot Metal Gas"중의 하나인 에탄($C_2H_6$)은 미량으로 특이한 가스발생형태를 보였다. Rogers Ratio 법과 발생가스별 고장 형태 및 원인분석법에 의한 진단결과는 일치하였다.

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Reliability-Centered Maintenance Model for Maintenance of Electric Power Distribution System Equipment (배전계통 기기 유지보수를 위한 RCM 모델)

  • Moon, Jong-Fil;Shon, Jin-Geun
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.58 no.4
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    • pp.410-415
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    • 2009
  • With the implementation of electric power industry reform, the utilities are looking for effective ways to improve the economic efficiency. One area in particular, the equipment maintenance, is being scrutinized for reducing costs while keeping a reasonable level of the reliability in the overall system. Here the conventional RCM requires the tradeoff between the upfront maintenance costs and the potential costs of losing loads. In this paper we describe the issues related to applying so-called the "Reliability-centered Maintenance" (RCM) method in managing electric power distribution equipment. The RCM method is especially useful as it explicitly incorporates the cost-tradeoff of interest, i.e. the upfront maintenance costs and the potential interruption costs, in determining which equipment to be maintained and how often. In comparison, the "Time-based Maintenance" (TBM) method, the traditional method widely used, only takes the lifetime of equipment into consideration. In this paper, the modified Markov model for maintenance is developed. First, the existing Markov model for maintenance is explained and analyzed about transformer and circuit breaker, so on. Second, developed model is introduced and described. This model has two different points compared with existing model: TVFR and nonlinear customer interruption cost (CIC). That is, normal stage at the middle of bathtub curve has not CFR but the gradual increasing failure rate and the unit cost of CIC is increasing as the interruption time is increasing. The results of case studies represent the optimal maintenance interval to maintain the equipment with minimum costs. A numerical example is presented for illustration purposes.

A Study of Fine Tuning Pre-Trained Korean BERT for Question Answering Performance Development (사전 학습된 한국어 BERT의 전이학습을 통한 한국어 기계독해 성능개선에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Chi Hoon;Lee, Yeon Ji;Lee, Dong Hee
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.83-91
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    • 2020
  • Language Models such as BERT has been an important factor of deep learning-based natural language processing. Pre-training the transformer-based language models would be computationally expensive since they are consist of deep and broad architecture and layers using an attention mechanism and also require huge amount of data to train. Hence, it became mandatory to do fine-tuning large pre-trained language models which are trained by Google or some companies can afford the resources and cost. There are various techniques for fine tuning the language models and this paper examines three techniques, which are data augmentation, tuning the hyper paramters and partly re-constructing the neural networks. For data augmentation, we use no-answer augmentation and back-translation method. Also, some useful combinations of hyper parameters are observed by conducting a number of experiments. Finally, we have GRU, LSTM networks to boost our model performance with adding those networks to BERT pre-trained model. We do fine-tuning the pre-trained korean-based language model through the methods mentioned above and push the F1 score from baseline up to 89.66. Moreover, some failure attempts give us important lessons and tell us the further direction in a good way.

A Study on the Proper Number of Banks of Parallel Operation of Transformer in Large-scale Power Plants Using the High Temperature Fuel Cell Considering the Internal Failure (내부고장을 고려한 고온형 연료전지 대규모 발전단지의 병렬운전 변압기 적정 뱅크수에 관한 연구)

  • Chong, Young-Whan;Chai, Hui-Seok;Sung, In-Je;Kim, Jae-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.26-31
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    • 2014
  • High temperature fuel cell system, such as molten carbonate fuel cells(MCFC) and solid oxide fuel cells(SOFC), are capable of operating at MW rated power output. The power output change of high temperature fuel cell imposes the thermal and mechanical stresses on the fuel cell stack. To minimize the thermal-mechanical stresses on the stack and increase the systems reliability, we should divide the power plant configuration to several banks. However, the improvement of reliability in fuel cell power plant system causes an increase of the investment cost, for example, replacement costs, labor costs, and so on. For this reason - the balance between investment and reliability improvement - many studies about the appropriate level of investment have been conducted. In this paper, we evaluate the cost for operation and installation, the benefit for electric energy and thermal energy sales, and the system reliability for several cases : these cases relate with the bank configuration.

A New Low-Cost Active Power Filter to Suppress Neutral Current Harmonics in Three-Phase Four-Wire System (3상 4선식 배전계통에서 중성선 전류 제거를 위한 새로운 저가형 능동전력필터)

  • 장민수;최세완;김기영
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.359-365
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    • 2002
  • Three-phase four-wire electrical distribution systems have been widely employed in manufacturing plants, commercial and residential buildings. Due to the nonlinear loads, the neutral conductor carries excessive harmonic currents resulting in wiring failure of the neutral conductor, overloading of the distribution transformer and a voltage drop between the neutral and the ground. This paper proposes a reduced rating active power filter to suppress neutral current harmonics in three-phase four-wire electrical distribution systems. The proposed system is simple in control and the VA rating of the inverter could be significantly reduced since only the fundamental current due to unbalanced loading flows through the inverter switch. The experimental results on a prototype validate the proposed control approach.

Numerical Study of Estimating the Arrival Time of UHF Signals for Partial Discharge Localization in a Power Transformer

  • Ha, Sang-Gyu;Cho, Jeahoon;Lee, Juneseok;Min, Byoung-Woon;Choi, Jaehoon;Jung, Kyung-Young
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.94-100
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    • 2018
  • Partial discharges (PDs) are electrical sparks that occur inside insulation between two conducting electrodes and can lead to the disastrous failure of insulation systems. To determine the location of a PD, a distributed array of UHF PD sensors is used to detect the electromagnetic (EM) signals emitted from the PD source, and the localization of the PD source can be estimated using the time difference of arrival (TDOA) between EM signals captured by the UHF PD sensor array. There are four popular methods to estimate the TDOA-the first peak method, the cross-correlation method, the energy criterion method, and the average time window threshold method. In this work, we numerically investigate the influence of noise on estimating the TDOA for the four different methods. Numerical results show that the energy criterion method is more robust against noise than other methods.

Structural reliability analysis using temporal deep learning-based model and importance sampling

  • Nguyen, Truong-Thang;Dang, Viet-Hung
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.84 no.3
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    • pp.323-335
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    • 2022
  • The main idea of the framework is to seamlessly combine a reasonably accurate and fast surrogate model with the importance sampling strategy. Developing a surrogate model for predicting structures' dynamic responses is challenging because it involves high-dimensional inputs and outputs. For this purpose, a novel surrogate model based on cutting-edge deep learning architectures specialized for capturing temporal relationships within time-series data, namely Long-Short term memory layer and Transformer layer, is designed. After being properly trained, the surrogate model could be utilized in place of the finite element method to evaluate structures' responses without requiring any specialized software. On the other hand, the importance sampling is adopted to reduce the number of calculations required when computing the failure probability by drawing more relevant samples near critical areas. Thanks to the portability of the trained surrogate model, one can integrate the latter with the Importance sampling in a straightforward fashion, forming an efficient framework called TTIS, which represents double advantages: less number of calculations is needed, and the computational time of each calculation is significantly reduced. The proposed approach's applicability and efficiency are demonstrated through three examples with increasing complexity, involving a 1D beam, a 2D frame, and a 3D building structure. The results show that compared to the conventional Monte Carlo simulation, the proposed method can provide highly similar reliability results with a reduction of up to four orders of magnitudes in time complexity.

Three-phase Four-wire Series Active Power Filter Control Strategy for The Compensation of Harmonics and Reactive Power Based-on Direct Compensating Voltage Extraction Method (직접 보상전압 추출기법을 이용하여 고조파전류와 무효전력을 보상하는 3상 4선식 직렬 형 능동전력필터의 제어법)

  • 김진선;김영석
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.213-221
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    • 2004
  • In recent years, since more and more diode rectifiers with smoothing dc capacitor are used in electronic equipments, household appliances and ac drives, harmonics generated by these loads have become a major issue. In addition, 3-phase 4-wire system is widely employed in distributing electric energy to several office building and manufacturing plants. This systems show excessive currents in the neutral. These neutral currents are fundamentally third harmonic, and their presence is tied to wiring failure, elevating of neutral potentials, transformer overheating, etc. In response to the concerns, this paper proposes a series active power filter scheme based on direct compensating voltage extraction method and the advantage of this control algorithm is direct extraction of compensation voltage reference without multiplying gain. Therefore, the calculation of the compensation voltage reference will becom much simpler than other control algorithm. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, a prototype active power filter is built and some experiments are carried out.