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In an automated industry PLC plays a central role to control the manufacturing system. Therefore, fault free operation of PLC controlled manufacturing system is essential in order to maximize a firm's productivity. On the contrary, distributed nature of manufacturing system and growing complexity of the PLC programs presented a challenging task of designing a rapid fault finding system for an uninterrupted process operation. Hence, designing an intelligent monitoring, and diagnosis system is needed for smooth functioning of the operation process. In this paper, we propose a method to continuously acquire a stream of PLC signal data from the normal operational PLC-based manufacturing system and to generate diagnosis model from the observed PLC signal data. Consequently, the generated diagnosis model is used for distinguish the possible abnormalities of manufacturing system. To verify the proposed method, we provided a suitable case study of an assembly line.

When fault currents contain decaying DC offset, the peak value of the fault current in the first cycle of the fault period is higher than the fault current during the steady-state period. To reduce the asymmetric fault current, this paper proposes an operation scheme using the series connection of two hybrid type Superconducting Fault Current Limiters (SFCLs) : an auxiliary SFCL and a main SFCL. The proposed method calculates the fault angle by comparing the zero-crossing time with fault detection time. According to the fault angle calculated, an auxiliary SFCL operates to reduce an asymmetric fault current during half a cycle after fault occurrence. After this process, the fault current is limited by a main SFCL. To confirm the usefulness of the proposed method, case studies using Electro-Magnetic Transients Program (EMTP)/Alternative Transient Program (ATP) Draw are perfomed.

In this paper, we present simplified fault set which is made by analyzing fault relation to design specification in CMOS operational amplifier. The hard fault is easily modeled because an effect of hard fault is out of all design specification. However, the soft fault is not easily modeled because an effect of soft fault on design specification is varied according to position and depth of fault. We simulated hard and soft fault by HSPICE, varying threshold voltage and W/L ratio from 90% increase to 90% decrease. The decrease of test time and the production of high reliability mixed-mode IC are possible by the proposed fault set.

In this paper, the characteristics of the shielded inductive superconducting fault current limiter(FCL) were simulated and analyzed to search for the parameter to determine FCL operation, Fault current limiting operation can be executed as resistive or inductive type, which is determined by iron-core radius and the number of the primary coil turns. It was considered through this paper that the operation of each was compared and examined about the merit of each mode.

In this paper, we proposed a flux-lock type superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) with two operational currents, which could detect and limit the fault current according to the amplitude of the fault current. The proposed flux-lock type SFCL is largely composed of two parts. One is two magnetically coupled coils wound in parallel on iron core and the other is two parallel connected high-Tc superconducting (HTSC) modules through an inserting resistance ($R_x$). The short-circuit tests were performed to analyze the current limiting operation and the power burden characteristics according to the fault location. Through the analysis on the experimental results, the current limiting operation was confirmed to be effectively performed by the quench generation in either two superconducting elements for a higher fault current or one superconducting element for a lower fault current directly after the fault occurrence. The total power burden in the superconducting modules comprising the SFCL was showed to be more reduced in the fault location with the larger fault current than in the fault location with the lower fault current.

본 논문은 전원단과 부하단사이에 GTO 사이리스터 브리지가 설치된 단상 DC 리액터타입을 적용한 고온초전도 사고전류제한기 동작특성에 대해 분석하였다. GTO 사이리스터 브리지가 설치된 DC 리액터 타입 FCL(Fault Current Limiter)은 평상시에 초전도코일에 전기에너지를 저장한다. 전원단의 사고로 인해 전력공급이 중단되었을 경우 FCL은 부하에 저장된 에너지를 공급할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 부하단 사고로 인한 사고전류 제한기능을 수행하게 되는데 이와 같은 동작은 GTO 사이리스터를 제어함으로서 가능해진다.

본 논문은 전원단과 부하단사이에 GTO 사이리스터 브리지가 설치된 단상 DC 리액터타입을 적용한 고온초전도 사고전류제한기 동작특성에 대해 분석하였다. GTO 사이리스터 브리지가 설치된 DC 리액터 타입 FCL(FAULT CURRENT LIMITER)은 평상시에 초전도코일에 전기에너지를 저장한다. 전원단의 사고로 인해 전력공급이 중단되었을 경우 FCL은 부하에 저장된 에너지를 공급할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 부하단 사고로 인한 사고전류 제한기능을 수행하게 되는데 이와 같은 동작은 GTO 사이리스터를 제어함으로서 가능해진다.

Superconducting fault current(SFCLs) are expected to improve not only reliability but also stability of real power systems. The analysis on the single line-to-ground fault current of the integrated three phase flux-lock type SFCL, which consists of three flux-lock reactor wound on an iron core in each single phase and three YBCO thin films, was investigated in current limiting operating characteristics. We compared additive polarity winding with the subtractive one in the flux lock reactor. Its turns ratio each phase between the primary and the secondary coils is 63:42. When a single line-to-ground fault occurred in any phase, the peak value of line current in the fault phase of the additive polarity winding increased up to 31.44[A] during first-half cycle. On the other hand, the peak value in the subtractive polarity winding increased up to 81.77[A] under the same conditions. This is because the current flow between the primary and the secondary windings becomes to be additive or subtractive in each winding direction. We confirmed that the current limiting behavior in the additive polarity winding was more effective for a single-line-to ground fault.

A novel prototype of an inductive superconducting fault current limiter with an iron core and an air sap was fabricated and tested. If its impedance is not high enough to limit the fault current, then destructive damage occurs in the power system. We attained a magnetic saturation under the higher current by introducing an air gap in the three-legged magnetic core. The fault current was successfully limited to two times as much as the nominal current without high fault current within 1/4 cycles at a 60 Hz source having an effective voltage of 70V.

Inductive high-Tc superconducting fault current limiter using YBCO superconducting ring in the secondary part has many advantages in power networks. It is based on the superconducting to normal transition and this paper describes its operational characteristics and experimental results, especially focused on the harmonic component analysis and recovery time. We fabricated and tested it under various conditions for the analysis of transient fault characteristics. And for the analysis of harmonics we used FFT methods. The superconducting ring was quenched in 240Arms and fault current was effectively limited to the lower current level. In addition, it was fast recovered when the fault condition was removed and after fault the system had odd harmonics.

The development of the superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) to apply into a power transmission system where makes larger fault current compared to the power distribution system has been performed. Among various SFCLs, the trigger-type SFCL is suitable for application into the power transmission system due to the effective reduction on power burden of the high temperature superconducting element (HTSC) for the larger fault current. To protect the power transmission line in the power grid, the distance relay, which decides to interrupt fault section where can be calculated by the measured voltage and current from sound grid, is one of important protective devices in the power transmission system. However, the operation of the distance relay from the impedance of the fault point on the transmission line is affected by the impedance of the trigger-type SFCL. Therefore, the analysis on the operational characteristics of distance relay considering the application of the SFCL is required. In this paper, the effect on the operation zones of the distance relay by the impedance of the SFCL in a power transmission system was analyzed through the PSCAD/EMTDC simulation.