• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.37-45
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• 2009

Recently mechanical watt-hour meters are being replaced by electronic watt-hour meters. The replacement period of mechanical watt-hour meters is 7 years. This period is based on long term historical data. The replacement period of electronic watt-meters is also 7 years. This period is determined using the replacement period of mechanical watt-hour meters. However lifetime of mechanical watt-hour meters is different from the lifetime of electronic meters. In order to determine desirable replacement period of electronic watt-hour meters, accelerated life tests of major components in electronic watt-hour meters were performed. The test results showed that LCD was the component which had the shortest lifetime. In this paper, lifetime of electronic watt-hour meters manufactured by 3 company was estimated and life test standard for LCD was developed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.308-310
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• 2001

With the development of Computer & Communication Technology, nowadays many people are interested in remote metering, and many vendors are suggesting various remote metering solutions. KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation) adopts some of these to some customers who uses a lot of electric power, also continues researching them. But, currently used electronic watt-hour meters vary in terms of communication protocol and data structure by the vendors. So we have to know each vendor's communication protocol and data structure to construct a remote metering system, or to find problems in it. But that's impossible to know each vendor's protocol and data structure because they are reluctant to tell those to outside the company. To solve these problems and to make a much more cost-effective metering system, KEPCO developed standard communication protocol between meters and PC (or metering server), and defined standard functions and data structure which can be used by everyone easily. Those developments support standard interface for every vendors' meters. And Those will be adopted by KEPCO for a part of a new metering standard for electronic watt-hour meters.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.99-103
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• 2009

This paper presents equipment that can exchange watt-hour meters without outage for customers, It is simpler than other methods to avoid outage during exchange. Furthermore, it has protective function to ensure customer's facility from engineer mistake. Because of good point mentioned above, it can improve efficiency and safety. Adopting developed equipment can ensure continuous electric power supply to customers.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.59 no.1
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• pp.106-111
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• 2010

Electronic watt hour meters(WHM) for high pressure running in domestic were installed to the digital type meter and ones for low pressure are expected to complete within several years. Domestic power metering technology is being beyond a simple framework with an electronic type and is rapidly evolving to intelligent smart metering systems in conjunction with promotion of a national smart grid project. Major policy outlook of the world's major power company regarding Intelligent metering is the application of the fare structure diversification and is the improvement of level of service to customers. In addition, electric power companies should focus on the cost reduction and the improvement of management efficiency through an efficient operation of distribution facility. In this paper, we are about to make an observation of the additional services technology development trend of the overseas smart meter and to have a view of value-added services(VAS) system of smart meter suitable for the domestic environment based on the technology development of VAS utilizing electronic watt hour meter performed by recent research projects.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07b
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• pp.800-802
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• 1999

The meters for low voltage customer presently being used in Korea are all mechanical type and there is strict limitation on applying various customized tariff structure. Recently low voltage solid state meter is under development by several makers of the watt hour meter in Korea. Also, KEPCO has a plan to use the solid state meter for low voltage customer to reduce peak power. So, this paper suggests the needed function of low voltage solid state meter considering electricity tariff policy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Reliability Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.345-353
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• 2006

전력량계가 기계식에서 전자식으로 변화되면서 전력량계 교체주기의 재설정이 요구되고 있다. 현재까지는 기계식 전력량계의 교체주기를 적용하여 7년으로 교체주기를 정하고 있으나 기계식과 전자식은 차이가 있으므로 전자식 전력량계의 적정한 교체주기를 결정하여야 한다. 적정한 교체주기를 결정하기 위해서는 전자식 전력량계의 수명평가가 선행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 전자식 전력량계의 부품 분석을 통하여 전자식 전력량계의 수명에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 부품을 선정하고, 선정된 부품에 대하여 가속수명시험을 실시하였다. 가속수명시험 결과로부터 부품들의 수명을 추정하고, 수명이 가장 짧아서 전자식 전력량계의 수명을 결정하는 부품의 종류를 확인하였다. 전력량계의 수명은 가장 짧은 수명을 갖는 부품의 수명에 의존하므로 부품들의 수명 추정 결과로부터 전력량계의 수명을 평가할 수 있었다. 또한, 수명이 가장 짧은 부품에 대하여 목표 수명 이상의 수명을 가짐을 보증하기 위한 시험기준을 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.40-44
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• 2014

In this paper, maximum power is the lowering device using the facility's energy use and peak load electricity through analyzing attitude should like to make it reduce its power base rate. Simulator to manage the demand for power, a maximum electric power base power from electronic watt-hour meters by a device's signal, predictive power, the current power by computing the goal of power for less than Maximum peak power and peak shift, so that you can manage, and peak York, which role you want a cut Metal heat treatment result which analyzes the data, demand for electricity company over the years of analyzing the characteristics of each load, and effects and Reducing power consumption device every month identified seven Sequence control to the load system and successful power control is about showing that the defined goals.

• Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.85-91
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• 2011

Alnico magnets can be used as magnetic bearings for the precise electric power measuring instruments such as watt-hour meters because they have high remanence ($B_r$), relatively high maximum energy product ($(BH)_{max}$), and excellent temperature stability. In this study, Alnico composite magnets were fabricated by appropriately mixing alnico alloy powders with epoxy resin and binder. The Alnico powders mixed with epoxy resin and a hardening agent with a mixing ratio of 96:4 were pressed and then cured to be a toroid-type ring magnet with an outer diameter (${\Phi}_{out}$) of 15 mm, an inner diameter (${\Phi}_{in}$) of 6.5 mm and a thickness (t) of 2.5 mm, respectively. The magnetic properties of the Alnico ring magnets were varied with the mixing ratio of Alnico powders that possess different average particle sizes. The Alnico ring magnet prepared by mixing 5 wt% of $50{\mu}m$ (small size) powder, 15~20 wt% of $150{\mu}m$ (medium size) powder, and 75~80 wt% of $300{\mu}m$ (large size) powder showed the best magnetic properties (remanent induction, coercive force, maximum energy product, and surface flux density). In addition, measurements of temperature and moisture characteristics for the Alnico ring magnets showed that the surface flux densities of the N and S poles decreased little and the repulsive distance between the magnets decreased as small as 0.05 mm after 10 days.