• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.369-371
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• 1999

The post-arc current in VCB(Vacuum Circuit Breaker) was calculated from the transient recovery voltage. A differential equation for the post-arc current was derived from the equivalent circuit of the test circuit. And it's results were showed.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1991년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.86-89
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• 1991

In recent years, Vacuum Circuit Breaker(VCB) has been widely used to enhance the confidence and at the same time to ease maintenance of waterworks requipment as the power supply breaker of high voltage motor. When making and breaking the sources as VCB the powerful surge voltage, repetitive reignition phenomenon resulted from exceeding inter-pole endurance voltage of CB, has occured. It has transmitted to the winding of motor stator through the cable, and this surge voltage is repeated over and over again before finishing making and breaking action of CB according to cumulation of repetitive reignition surge, motor has become burned in the end. This paper describes surge voltage occuring in making and breaking of VCB as circuit parameters by transient phenonenon and examines closely the variance of peak values, wavefront-length, wavetail-length, when changing inductance and capacitance of a cable. Finally we will expect to protect motor winding breakdown from surge voltage through parallel connection of suitable-size in the motor.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.808-810
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• 2002

Higher current-rating and improved thermal performance are being sought for existing medium-voltage vacuum circuit breakers(VCB) in order to meet market needs which require to be compact and downsized. In this paper, thermal performance of medium voltage vacuum circuit breaker was investigated through experiments and numerical analysis. We changed several major parameters of current-rating and heat sink affecting on thermal behaviors in the breaker and observed the results. To predict the temperature distribution in complex three-dimensional (3-D) VCB components and gas, the commercial package was used to simulate conjugate heat transfer. Although some assumptions and simplifications were introduced to simulate the model, results from the computational model were in good agreement with actual temperature rise measurements obtained from experiments.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.92-97
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• 2006

This paper presents the characteristic analysis and the optimal design of a permanent magnetic actuator (PMA) for a vacuum circuit breaker (VCB) using a two-dimensional finite element analysis. The purpose of this research about a PMA is to minimize the breaking time and the volume of the permanent magnet within the limits of the holding force and maximum current in the coil. The conjugate gradient method is used as an optimization algorithm. The node moving technique is iteratively implemented until the design variables of the PMA are optimized. In this paper, the optimal design of a PMA is accomplished to improve the conventional design methods.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.2048-2049
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• 2007

광섬유 온도센서를 이용하여 밀폐형 폐쇄배전반 내부에 설치된 진공차단기(Vacuum Circuit Breaker: 이하 VCB)의 접촉부 및 부싱부 이상 온도변화를 상시 감시할 수 있는 On-line 온도 감시 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 온도변화를 측정하는 광센서부, 광신호의 이동 통로역할을 하는 Optical Head부, 변환된 전기신호를 신호처리하고 상위 시스템으로 통신을 수행할 신호처리장치의 세 부분으로 구성되어 있다. 구현한 시스템은 측정 범위가 $-25\;{\sim}\;200^{\circ}C$인 희토류 원소가 첨가된 광섬유 온도센서를 사용하였고, 시스템의 측정 범위는 $-20\;{\sim}\;150^{\circ}C$, 측정 정밀도는 Full Scale의 ${\pm}2\;%$, 측정 주파수는 0.1 Hz이었다. 검출된 온도 값은 Modbus Protocol을 이용하여 상위 시스템으로 송신하도록 구현하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.878-880
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• 2004

In this paper, a new design of permanent magnetic actuator (PMA) for vacuum circuit breaker (VCB) with one coil is proposed. Electromagnetic characteristic analysis is performed numerically using finite element method (FEM) considering the nonlinearity of magnetic core and permanent magnet. The characteristics of proposed PMA with one coil is similar with that of the conventional PMA with two coils. The proposed PMA can simplify the control circuit because of the usage of one coil. Therefore, the reliability of VCB can be improved with the proposed model.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 Techno-Fair 및 합동춘계학술대회 논문집 전기물성,응용부문
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• pp.133-134
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• 2008

This paper describes a testing method to assess the reliability of the epoxy bushing used for the vacuum circuit breaker(VCB). Especially, in order to show the long-term durability of epoxy bushing in a short testing duration, the extremely accelerated electric stress applying test plan was adopted.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제55권10호
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• pp.521-527
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• 2006

After various measuring methods and system were investigated, Rogowski colis for the measurement of parameters in current zero region were designed and manufactured. Using the Rogowski coils and a 38kV 40kA VCB (vacuum circuit breaker), at last the post-arc current has been successfully measured firstly. It was found that the Rogowski coils used in this study have good characteristics and propriety to measure the parameters of current zero. We realized that the data processing for evaluating the post-arc current from the experimental results needs much more careful attention than that for building the measuring technique and system. The magnitude of post-arc current and the falling time of it to zero are proportioned to the rate of current di/dt. The magnitude of post-arc currents were around $1{\sim}3A$ to the interruption current of $20{\sim}30kA$ in the model VCB.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.77-78
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• 2007

국제규격에 따라 VCB(vacuum circuit breaker), ACB(air circuit breaker), 등과 같은 전력기기들의 기계적 동작 시험 시, 시험전후의 개폐시간, 개폐속도, 동작코일전류크기, 등과 같은 특성을 측정하고 이들의 변화정도를 평가하여 시험결과를 판단한다. 그러나 시험 중에는 이러한 동작특성들을 측정하지 않기 때문에, 시험 중에 실패하는 경우, 원인 규명에 많은 어려움이 따른다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해, LS산전 PT&T(Power Testing & Technology Institutes)는 시험전후뿐만 아니라 전체시험횟수 동안 동작특성을 측정하고, 이들의 변화추이를 분석할 수 있는 시스템을 구축하고, 관련 소프트웨어를 개발하였다. 본 논문에서는 개발 내용과 결과를 소개하고자 한다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.715-722
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• 1998

A large electric system of a vacuum circuit breaker(VCB) has been studied for the electro-thermal analysis by finite element methods. Since the heat generation in VCB causes not only energy loss but deterioration of the VCB system with oxidization of parts, the overheating of the system must be prevented. For the analysis, a finite element formulation is derived for both electric analysis and thermal analysis that are coupled together. Two sets of formulations are uncoupled after finite dimensional approximation. First, the electric potential is obtained for the entire field and scaled to the given electric current. The electric field obtained is then used to calculate the heat generation in the VCB system including contacts and connections for the calculation of the temperature distribution in the entire domain. The finite element analysis is carried out to study the effect of shapes and locations of contacts and connections. From the results, the existing VCB has been modified to enhance its capacity with reduction of heat generation and temperature elevation.