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Optimum Design of a Wind Power Tower to Augment Performance of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

수직축 풍력터빈 성능향상을 위한 풍력타워 최적설계에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2019.01.01
  • Accepted : 2019.03.01
  • Published : 2019.03.01
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Abstract

Wind power tower has been used to augment the performance of VAWT (Vertical Axis Wind Turbine). However, inappropriately designed wind power tower could reduce the performance of VAWT. Hence, an optimization study was conducted on a wind power tower. Six design variables were selected, such as the outer radius and the inner radius of the guide wall, the adoption of the splitter, the inner radius of the splitter, the number of the guide wall and the circumferential angle. For the objective function, the periodic averaged torque obtained at the VAWT was selected. In the optimization, Design of Experiment (DOE), Genetic Algorithm (GA), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) have been applied in order to avoid a localized optimized result. The ANN has been continuously improved after finishing the optimization process at each generation. The performance of the VAWT was improved more than twice when it operated within the optimized wind power tower compared to that obtained at a standalone.

풍력 타워는 수직형 풍력터빈의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 사용되어왔다. 하지만 올바르게 설계되지 않은 풍력 타워는 오히려 풍력터빈의 성능을 저하시킬 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 풍력 타워의 최적화 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 다음과 같이 6가지의 설계변수가 선택되었다. 즉, 가이드 벽의 외부 및 내부 반경, 스플리터의 적용 여부, 스플리터의 내부 반경, 가이드 벽의 개수 및 원주각도가 선정되었다. 최적화를 위한 목적함수는 풍력타워 내에 설치된 수직형 풍력터빈에서의 주기적인 평균 토크가 사용되었으며, 최적화 과정에서 지엽적인 최적화 결과를 피하기 위하여 실험계획법, 유전자알고리즘 및 인공신경망기법이 사용되었다. 인공신경망은 세대의 증가에 따라 지속적으로 향상하였으며, 수직 풍력터빈의 성능은 독립운전에 비하여 최적화된 풍력 타워 내에서 두 배 이상 향상되었다.

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