• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1362-1363
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• 2008

It has been known that the values of soil resistance drops when a high impulse current is injected into a grounding electrode. In this study, the electrical characteristics of medium grain size sand to different water contents are investigated. The results were discussed based on its voltage and current traces, impulse resistances and I-V curve.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.25-27
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• 2006

This paper proposes a new full ZVS-range asymmetrical half bridge converter. It uses the variable transient current build-up technique with the load variations. The current build-up is accomplished by using the secondary synchronous switch control. Due to the blocking capacitor in secondary side, the voltage applied to leakage inductor varies with the load variations during current build-up period. Therefore, the unnecessary current build-up of leakage inductor current in heavy load condition is prevented and more current build-up in medium and light load condition is achieved for ZVS operation. That is, the variant current build-up with the load variation is accomplished for the ZVS operation. Furthermore, the DC offset of the transformer magnetizing current is also eliminated and the utilization of magnetic core is maximized.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.128-130
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• 2006

We introduce 2[MVA] 3300[V] 7-level voltage source inverter system developed by POSCON and describe the main characteristics of inverter system i.e. PWM converter, H-bridge power module, phase shifted carrier PWM The PWM converter is a three-phase boost converter, which operates in a 4-quadrant and in a nearly unit displacement power factor. Experimental waveforms are also presented to verify the proposed method and performance of the developed system.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.127-135
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• 2014

In this paper a novel converter structure based on cascade converter family is presented. The suggested multilevel advanced cascade converter has benefits such as reduction in number of switches and power losses. Comparison depict that proposed topology has the least number of IGBTs among all multilevel cascade type converters which have been introduced recently. This characteristic causes low cost and small installation area for suggested converter. The number of on state switches in current path is less than conventional topologies and so the output voltage drop and power losses are decreased. Symmetric and asymmetric modes are analyzed and compared with conventional multilevel cascade converter. Simulation and experimental results are presented to illustrate validity, good performance and effectiveness of the proposed configuration. The suggested converter can be applied in medium/high voltage and PV applications.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.196-197
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• 2010

This paper investigates a high performance converter topology for hydrogen gas generation electrolysis system. The proposed converter topology consists of full-bridge inverter, medium frequency transformer, and diode rectifier. Hydrogen gas generation electrolysis process considered in the paper is analyzed and characterized by its equivalent circuit. The electrolysis cell is modeled as effective resistance, capacitance, inductance, and internal emf voltage source. The proposed converter topology provides enhanced efficiency of hydrogen gas generation process under the operating condition of dc output voltage with high frequency ripple on it. The high performance operation of proposed converter is confirmed through the simulation with the electrolysis cell considered in the equivalent circuit model.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.861-871
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• 2016

With high penetration of renewable energies, power electronic transformers (PETs) will be one of the most important infrastructures in the future power delivery and management system. In this study, an isolated bidirectional modular multilevel DC/DC converter is proposed for PET applications. A modular multilevel structure is adopted as switching valves to sustain medium voltages to achieve modular design and high reliability. Only one high-frequency transformer is used in the proposed converter, which significantly simplifies the circuit and galvanic insulation design. A dual-phase-shift modulation strategy is proposed to regulate the output power and achieve a simple voltage balancing control. A down-scaled (2 kW/20 kHz) prototype is constructed to demonstrate the proposed converter and verify the control strategy. The experimental results comply with the theoretical analysis well, with the highest power efficiency reaching 97.6%.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11b
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• pp.2648-2651
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• 2008

In AC electrowetting, it has been reported that there is a flow inside droplets. The flow characteristics such as flow rate, direction and the pattern of streamline are altered according to the frequency range of applied voltage. However, the mechanism of the flow has not been explained yet. This work is concentrated on investigation of the flow mechanism when high-frequency voltage is applied to droplets. We propose that this phenomenon arises from the electro-thermal flow. A numerical analysis is performed for the needle-electrode-plane geometry in which the Coulombic force term is included in the Navier-Stokes equation. According to our analysis, electrical charge is generated due to conductivity gradient which is originated from the nonuniform Joule heating of fluid medium. The result of the analysis is compared with experimental result.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.2143-2145
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• 2005

Power semicondcutor인 IGBT MOSFET, GTO, SI-Thyristor등은 높은 스위치 신뢰성과 life time, 그리고 fast repetition rate 등을 지니고 있기 때문에 medium/High voltage영역에서 스위치 사용이 대두되어 왔으나, Thyratron이나 Trigatron(Gap switch)와 비교하여 낮은 전압/전류를 스위칭하기 때문에 전통적으로 직렬연결을 통해 high voltage 영역의 스위치로 사용되어 왔다. 하지만, 직렬연결되어 있는 각각의 power semiconductor와 gate driving circuit의 on/off synchronization이 맞지 않기 때문에 부하의 급격한 변화에 따른 전압의 balance에 문제가 가장 심각하게 대두되어 왔다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 gate driving circuit에서 제어를 해주는 방법과 power semiconductor에서 제어를 해주는 방법이 있으나 두 방식 모두 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 zener clamping방식에서 벗어나 새로운 active clamping방식의 직렬연결을 제안했으며 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통해 나타난 이 결과들은 on/off transient 시 symmetry를 유지하는데 효과적이라는 것을 보여주고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.61-63
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• 2008

An inverter with large capacity has been demanded at a factory automation and diffusion of the energy saving work. As the capacity of inverter is larger, the stary inductance has much influence on both the di/dt of IGBT current, and voltage stress across IGBT. Also, the life of the snubber capacitor may be shortened due to overheating of the snubber capacitor. In this paper, a planar busbar which consists of two layers is applied to N700-series inverter in order to minimize stray inductance. The voltage stress across IGBT is changed by both the DC busbar structure and the capacity of snubber capacitor.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.361-362
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• 2015

This paper proposes a Direct Power Control (DPC) scheme of improved command tracking capability for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) Medium Voltage (MV) Wind Turbines. Benchmarking is performed based on a neutral point clamped three-level back-to-back type voltage source converter. It is introduced to design the DPC modeling and propose DPC scheme of a three-level NPC (3L-NPC) converter. During the fault condition in wind farms, the proposed control scheme directly controls the generated output power to the command value from the hierarchical wind farm controller. The proposed control scheme is compared with conventional control scheme as respect to loss and thermal analysis. The DPC scheme of improved command tracking capability is confirmed through PLECS simulations. Simulation result shows that proposed control scheme achieves a much shorter transient time in a step response of generated output power. The proposed control scheme makes it possible to provide a good dynamic performance for PMSG MV wind turbine to generate a high quality output power under grid fault condition.