• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2022

The electrification trend of mobility increases every year due to the development of power semiconductor and battery technology. Accordingly, the development and distribution of fast chargers for electric vehicles (EVs) are in demand. In this study, we propose a design and implementation method of an LLC converter for fast chargers. Two 15 kW LLC converters are configured in parallel to have 30 kW rated output power, and the control algorithm and driving sequence are designed accordingly and verified. In addition, the improved power conversion efficiency is confirmed through zero-voltage switching (ZVS) of the LLC converter and reduction of turn-off loss through snubber capacitors. The implemented 30 kW LLC converters show a wide output voltage range of 200-950 V. Experiments applying various load conditions verify the converter performance.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2022

Recently, photovoltaic (PV) systems have been gradually applied in eco-friendly vehicle applications to improve fuel economy. The relevant market is expected to continue to grow because the installation of large-capacity PV systems to other eco-friendly vehicles, such as electric buses and trains, is being considered. However, in a PV system, power imbalance between submodules and low power generation efficiency occur due to factors such as cell aging, contamination, and shading. To resolve this problem, various differential power processing (DPP) converters have been researched and developed. However, conventional DPP converters suffer from large volume and low efficiency. Therefore, to apply DPP converters to eco-friendly vehicles, increasing efficiency and reducing volume and price compared with existing DPP converters is necessary. In this paper, a novel DPP converter with an integrated transformer is proposed and analyzed. The proposed DPP converter uses a single magnetic component by integrating transformers and secondary sides of conventional DPP converters. Therefore, the proposed DPP converter shows high power density and high efficiency, and it is suitable for PV systems in eco-friendly vehicle applications.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제60권3호
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• pp.146-154
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• 2023

Efforts have been made to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from ships by limiting the energy efficiency index, and net zero CO₂ emission was proposed recently. The most ideal measure to achieve zero emission ship is electrification, and fuel cells are considered as a practical power source of the electrified propulsion system. The electric efficiency in the electrochemical reaction of fuel cells can be achieved up to 60% practically. The remaining energy is converted to heat energy but most of them are dissipated by cooling. In the author's previous research, a hybrid propulsion system utilizing not only electricity but also heat was introduced by combining electric motor and steam turbine. In this article, long term efficiency is evaluated for the introduced hybrid propulsion system by considering a virtual 24,000 TEU class container carrier model. To reflect a more practical operating condition, the actual navigation data of a similar real ship in the real world were collected from automatic identification system data and applied. From the result, the overall efficiency of the hybrid propulsion system is expected to be higher than a conventional electric propulsion fuel cell ship by 30%.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제60권3호
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• pp.175-185
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• 2023

Many small vessels such as fishing boats operate in the world's oceans; accordingly, interest in these small vessels' exhaust-gas problem is increasing. Research on the application of electric-propulsion technology has been steadily conducted; however, the subject is limited to research ships or leisure boats, while research on application efficiency remains insufficient. This study attempts to apply lithium-battery electric-propulsion technology to small ships. A gross tonnage of 9.77, a representative fishing boat, is to be redesigned as a fully electrified ship. Without changing the main cabin's dimensions and fuel tanks, the ship's propulsion system is redesigned based on a lithium-battery electric-propulsion system. In addition, the redesigned system is compared with the original sample ship's diesel-propulsion system for application-effect analysis. The results indicate that under controlled sailing conditions, the weight and volume of the electric-propulsion system are 9.5 and 10.5 times those of the diesel-propulsion system, respectively. These values indicate that the system cannot meet fishing boats' high endurance requirements. Therefore, under the existing technical conditions, applying the full lithium-battery electric-propulsion system to solve the problem of high emissions from fishing boats shows limited feasibility.

• Journal of East Asia Management
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.75-90
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• 2024

About 100 years after the start of mass production by American car maker Ford in 1913, the automobile industry has come to a major transformation in 100 years. In this transformation period, automakers are facing the biggest challenge of converting power sources, the basis of automobiles, from existing internal combustion engines to electric vehicles. Hybrid vehicles have been released in Japan since the late 1990s, and changes in automobile power sources have occurred early. In order to gain global leadership in hybrid vehicles, Japanese automakers and the Japanese government joined forces to promote the growth of the domestic hybrid vehicle market. The government has implemented a policy to substantially subsidize the high price of hybrid cars compared to internal combustion engine cars by providing purchase subsidies and tax benefits to buyers. Toyota has increased its line-up of hybrid cars around the Prius and has further strengthened communication with customers for the sale of hybrid vehicles. As a result of continuing these efforts for about 20 years, the percentage of Japan's hybrid vehicle market in 2022 reached 51% for passenger cars. Recently, each country has been setting and promoting aggressive goals for electric vehicles that require a wider range of physical and institutional infrastructure than hybrid vehicles. This study aims to assess the growth of electric vehicles by looking at the trend of hybrid vehicles and how they've been distributed in the Japanese market.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.86-97
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• 2006

전기철도 급전시스템의 설계와 평가에 관련하여 어려운 점은 고려해야 할 요소들이 많고, 시스템적 접근이 요구되나 단편적인 논문과 엔지니어링 측면의 접근이 대부분이다. 본 논문에서는 전기철도 시스템 중 국내외에서 최근 활발히 추진되고 있는 경량전철을 위한 직류 급전시스템의 설계 및 그의 적정성을 평가하는 기법을 체계화하였다. 먼저, 급전 시스템의 구성요소인 급전 변전소와 부하인 차량과 그리고 전력선을 포함한 전체 시스템의 특성파악하고 분석하였다. 실제 계통과 동일하게 모델링하기 위하여 축약 및 등가화를 하였으며, 등가화한 시스템을 해석하기 위한 방안으로 노드방정식과 반복접근법을 적용하였으며, 이를 체계화하여 모의절차, 평가 및 설계방법을 제시하였다. 제시한 알고리즘 및 설계절차에 따라 프로그램을 개발하였으며 사례연구를 통하여 그 유효성을 입증하였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.415.2-415.2
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• 2016

Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is one of ways to convert mechanical energy sound, waves, wind, vibrations, and human motions to available electrical energy. The principal mechanism to generate electrical energy is based on contact electrification on material surface and electrostatic induction between electrodes. The performance of TENG are dependent on amount of the input mechanical energy and characteristics of triboelectric materials. Furthermore, the whole TENG system including mechanical structure and electrical system can effect on output performance of TENG. In this work, we investigated the effect of gear train on output performance and power conversion efficiency (PCE) of TENG under a given input energy. We applied the gear train on mechanical structure to improve the contact rate. We measured the output energy under a constant input energy by controlling the size of the working gear. We prepared gears with gear ratios (rin/rw) of 1, 1.7, and 5. Under the constant input energy, the voltage and current from our gear-based TENG system were enhanced up to the maximum of 3.6 times and 4.4 times, respectively. Also, the PCE was increased up to 7 times at input frequency of 1.5 Hz. In order to understand the effect of kinematic design on TENG system, we performed a capacitor experiment with rectification circuit that provide DC voltage and current. Under the input frequency of 4.5 Hz, we obtained a 3 times enhanced rectifying voltage at a gear ratio of 5. The measured capacitor voltage was enhanced up to about 8 fold in using our TENG system. It is attributed that our gear-based TENG system could improve simultaneously the magnitude as well as the generation time of output power, finally enhancing output energy. Therefore, our gear-based TENG system provided an effective way to enhance the PCE of TENGs operating at a given input energy.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2009

철도서비스 개선을 위한 기존선의 복선, 전철화, 상호직결운행 등 철도네트워크의 기능강화사업이 활발히 추진되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 철도네트워크 기능강화와 같이 새로운 철도서비스가 제공될 경우 타 교통수단으로부터 어느정도의 전환수요가 발생되며, 철도이용패턴은 어떻게 변화될 것인지에 대해 대구권 철도서비스 개선의 사례연구를 대상으로 SP와 TP자료에 의한 전환수요분석모형을 검토하였다. 모형분석 결과, 총통행시간과 통행비용의 파라미터 추정치가 충분한 설명력을 나타내고 있으며, 특히 SP의 보완적 조사로서 TP데이터를 이용할 경우, 철도요금과 통행시간 설정에 따라 전환수요경계치를 쉽게 파악할 수 있어서 대구권 광역철도를 비롯하여 타 지역에서도 보다 실용적으로 적용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.590-599
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• 2011

연료전지시스템의 고효율화를 목적으로 수소가 가진 화학적 에너지를 최대한 전력화하기 위하여 연료전지에서 발생하는 폐열을 적극 활용할 필요가 있다. 이런 목적에 폐열을 이용하는 증기터빈과 연료 전지를 결합시킨 SOFC/ST 하이브리드시스템이 적합하다. 본 논문은 SOFC/ST 하이브리드시스템에 대한 셀의 작동온도와 전류밀도, 연소기 출구 온도, 보일러 출구 가스온도가 시스템의 성능에 미치는 영향 등을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검토한 것으로 증기터빈의 일정 조건에서는 연료전지 스택에서 다량의 폐열이 발생하는 경우가, 연료전지의 일정 조건에서는 연소기에 추가적 연료 공급을 억제하는 경우에서 하이브리드시스템의 효율이 증가됨을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 제36회 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.447-449
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• 2005

Power supply system & environment have been changed according to the universal global electrification, the pursuit of improving productivity and the convenience of life. The various kinds of modem electric facilities and almost of all kinds of digital devices embedded microprocessor are very sensitive to the supplied power quality variations. So, they are stopped and result in large economic damage when even the deterioration of power quality with short duration is occurred, which was not so fatal to the conventional industrial facilities and devices. Conversely, those facilities and digital devices generate many kinds of power quality problems such as harmonic.;, flicker, voltage drop, etc. This paper presents the status of power quality and outlines the development of a new power quality monitoring system based on the experience of a series of authors' researches and field measurements for industrial customers in Korea. It also proposes the functions of the monitoring device and the efficient analysis method based on the Korean electrical act and international standards on power quality. Finally, the authors suggest some countermeasures for advancing the power quality to cope with the competitive electric power market and customers' needs after domestic restructuring of electric power industry.