• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.115-123
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• 2018

Various types of robots running on power transmission lines have been developed for the purpose of line patrol monitoring. They usually have complex mechanism to run and avoid obstacles on the power line, but nevertheless did not show satisfactory performance for going over the obstacles. Moreover, they were so heavy that they could not be easily installed on the lines. To compensate these problems, flying robots have been developed and recently, multi-copter drones with flight stability have been used in the electric power industry. The drones could be remotely controlled by human operators to monitor power distribution lines. In the case of transmission line patrol, however, transmission towers are huge and their spans are very long, and thus, it is very difficult for the pilot to control the patrol drones with the naked eye from a long distance away. This means that the risk of a drone crash onto electric power facilities always resides. In addition, there exists another danger of electromagnetic interference with the drones on autopilot waypoint tracking under ultra-high voltage environments. This paper presents a patrol monitoring plan of autopilot drones for power transmission lines and its field tests. First, the magnetic field effect on an autopilot patrol drone is investigated. Then, how to build the flight path to avoid the magnetic interference is proposed and our autopilot drone system is introduced. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed patrol plan is confirmed through its field test results in the 154 kV, 345 kV and 765 kV transmission lines in Chungcheongnam-do.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.730-736
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• 2014

Test standards for electrical and electronic equipment required for ship operations is applying the IEC-60533 standard. However, although a test procedure and a specified regulation are clearly defined in the deck and bridge zone and general power distribution zone, they are not regulated in the special power distribution zone with ship propulsion system. For these reasons, the costs for additional research and development have been invested. In this paper, we was measured power noise in a special power distribution zone in ship and we were compared and analyzed values measured. The actual experiments are performed on the ship of Korea Maritime and Ocean University. As a result, the acquired data on Hanbada shows that loop antenna with low frequency band(160kHz) and ultra log antenna with high frequency band(1.97GHz)occur about 6-8dB differences and about 8.7 difference respectively. Also, the acquired data on Hannara shows that each loop antenna of 1MHz, 11MHz, and 25MHz occurs about 7dB difference about 4-5dB differences respectively. so standard of Special distribution zone must be specified by comparative analysis of data obtained by the experiment more.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.6
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• pp.944-950
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• 2008

When small cogenerators are operated in connected with power system, there are many positive aspects such as the reduction of power plant construction, making a improvement of power security etc. At the same time, there are some negative effects or difficulties such as we should make sure of protective coordination, especially, Actually these are not fault, but it is likely to consider the current as the fault. This is one of major causes of malfunctions for protective relays in power distribution system which is including interconnection point. Thus, in this paper, We showed that the directional protection is necessary to the dispersed generation system which is including connection point. We also executed contingency analysis to find out the magnitude of fault current and direction which are classified by fault points, length of line and kinds of faults using ETAP power system analysis program.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.141-142
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• 2017

In this paper, integrated series and shunt inverter is presented to solve power quality problems in distribution line system. In this configuration consists of series inverter and shunt inverter. Series inverter acts as DVR to compensate voltage during sagging occurred and shunt inverter optimize to inject balance active power from distributed power source like PV system with Maximum Power Point Tracing (MPPT). Finally, the proposed configuration is verified through the PSiM simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11d
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• pp.53-55
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• 2004

부분방전 검출을 이용한 XLPE 케이블 진단은 중간 및 종단 접속재의 계면에 존재하는 결합을 검출할 수 있는 가장 효과적인 방법으로 제시되고 있지만 현장의 큰 노이즈로 인하여 신뢰성 있는 진단이 쉽지 않다. 하지만 국내에서 많은 연구가 이루어진 송전케이블 진단 기술을 바탕으로 배전케이블 진단에 적용하여 종단접속부에서 발생된 부분방전을 성공적으로 검출하였고 해체 조사를 통하여 결함을 검출하였다. 본 논문은 참고문헌[1]에 발표한 논문에 연결되는 논문으로 전편은 2004년 2월 부분방전 검출사례를 보고한 논문이고 본 논문에서는 8월 계획정전을 통하여 문제된 접속함을 교체한 후 해체조사를 통하여 결함을 검출한 사례보고이다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.719-723
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• 1998

Prevention of the islanding phenomena is one of the most important issues because it can damage electrical equipment connected to the utility system and endanger human life. It is very difficult to detect an islanding condition of a power distribution line with conventional voltage of frequency relays, while the output power and the load power of utility interactive PV inverter units are in nearly balanced state in both active power and reactive power. This paper describes the protective equipment that prevents the PV system connected to the utility grid from starting islanding. Both predictive ocntrol method and harmonic injection method are used for a current control and islanding detection for operating safety.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.770-771
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• 2007

Wind power plant is based on the wind energy so the active power is frequently changed and connected to grid according with wind condition. These characteristics are bed effect to distribution line. On this reserch, we want to analyze the quality of electric power synchro/asynchronous generation system in Dae Kwan Ryung wind farm. The contents of analysis are active/reactive power variation and total demand distortion and transiency and sag/swell phenomena. we hope this research can contribute to the power quality improvement.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.633-635
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• 2007

To cope with increasing power demand in metropolitan area, the power system in Korea has equipped with unit generator of large capacity, high density and uneven distribution, and transmission line of long distance, large capacity and high voltage. As the power system growing up enormous, it has become difficult to maintain the standard voltage in case of radical fluctuation of load or severe change of voltage by power system fault for its weakness of responsive characteristics although the power condenser has been installed to solve the unstability by lack of reactive power. Consequently, we review harmonic wave production and control characteristics to solve unstability problem of voltage in northern metropolitan, to reduce transmission restriction cost and to minimize load shedding by relocation of SVC (Static Var Compensator), which is highly effective for improvement of responsive characteristics for radical voltage fluctuation.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.4
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• pp.560-566
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• 2008

Today, as the power trades between generation companies and power customer are liberalized, the uncertainty level of operated power system is rapidly increased. Therefore, transmission operators as decision makers for transmission expansion are required to establish a deliberate investment plan for effective operations of transmission facilities considering forecasted conditions of power system. This paper proposes the methodology for the optimal solution of transmission expansion in deregulated power system. The paper obtains the expected value of transmission congestion cost for various scenarios by using occurrence probability. In addition, the paper assumes that increasing rates of loads are the probability distribution and indicates the location of expanded transmission line, the time for transmission expansion with the minimum cost for the future by performing the Montecarlo simulation. To minimize the investment risk as the variance of the congestion cost, Mean-Variance Markowitz portfolio theory is applied to the optimization model by the penalty factor of the variance. By the case study, the optimal solution for transmission expansion plan considering the feature of market participants is obtained.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2012.05b
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• pp.512-516
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• 2012

Recently the Korean government's green energy growth policy has been taken at the national level due to the sufficient supply of renewable energy. Some specific technique should be taken in consideration for the operation of the grid voltage and power quality management. In this case, there may have some chance of operational problems. Typical problems arise when grid-connected solar power produced by Pacific sunshine. The power flow in the reverse direction can create overvoltage on the distribution line and gives value of malfunction on the system. Line voltage and overvoltage adjustment practice can stop these symptoms occurred. Under these circumstances, this paper presents an interconnection test devices for photovoltaic(PV) systems composed of distribution system simulator, PV system simulator and control and monitoring systems using the LabVIEW S/W, and simulates the customer voltage characteristics considering the 3 parameters on the introduction capacity for PV systems, system configuration and Power factor. This paper also proposes a new calculation algorithm for voltage profile to make comparison between calculation values and test device values. The results show that the simulation results for the normal operation characteristics of PV systems which are very practical and effective.