• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.32-38
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• 2013

In an efforts to encourage renewable energy deployment, the government has initiated so called 1 million green homes program but the accumulated installation capacity of small wind turbine has been about 70kW. It can be explained in several ways such that current subsidy program does not meet public expectations, economic feasibility of wind energy is in doubt or acoustic emission is significant etc. The author investigated annual energy production of Skystream 3.7 wind turbine using measured power curve and wind resource data. The measured power curve of the small wind turbine was obtained through power performance tests at Wol-Ryoung test site. AEP(Annual Energy Production) and CF(Capacity Factor) were evaluated at selected locations with the measured power curve.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• summer
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• pp.875-877
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• 2004

Research related to renewable energy is urgently required to cope with the depletion of fossil fuel and the environmental pollution. This paper deals with maximum power control of 1kW rating wind power generator. To implement direct-drive generator, axial flux permanent magnet generator is adopted to test the converter. The blade is attached to the surface of outer rotor disk. Generally wind power generator is operated under the rated wind speed. To capture maximum power at my given wind speed, the coordination of generator and converter is essential. Buck/Boost converter is designed to charge 24V battery and under the low wind speed it operates as boost converter.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.67-68
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 계통연계형 단상 풍력발전 시스템에 발생하는 2차 고조파를 보상하는 기법을 제안한다. 단상 소형풍력 발전 시스템은 직류단에 필연적으로 2차 고조파 성분을 갖게 되며, 이는 출력전류의 왜곡을 야기한다. 제안하는 방법은 직류단 전압의 2차 고조파를 제거하는 기존의 기법과는 달리, 비례공진 제어기로 출력전류 지령의 2차 고조파를 제거하여 출력전류의 왜곡을 보상한다. 제안하는 기법은 복잡한 연산 없이 고조파를 보상할 수 있다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 알고리즘의 우수한 제어특성을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1733-1735
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• 2005

최근의 소형 분산 전원의 보급 필요성의 커짐으로 전력과 열에너지를 동시에 생산, 이용함으로서 종합 에너지 효율이 높고 공해 배출 및 소음 특성이 우수한 초소형 가스터빈 발전 시스템에 대한 수요가 급증하고 있다. 본 논문은 마이크로 가스터빈 시스템과 그 제어장치의 동작 상태를 모니터링 및 제어하기 위한 마이크로 가스터빈 감시 제어장치와 사용자 인터페이스 프로그램을 소개한다. 마이크로 가스 터빈은 초고속(수만$\sim$10만 RPM)으로 회전하여 발전을 하므로 터빈 및 전동기 설계 기술과 더불어 고성능의 제어 시스템을 필요로 한다. 마이크로 가스터빈의 감시 제어 시스템은 터빈, 발전기 및 전력 변환장치를 제어하는 고성능의 DSP 제어장치들과 고속 직렬 통신 방식으로 연결되어 시스템의 제어 및 상태 감시를 위한 최적의 솔루션을 제공함으로서 마이크로 가스터빈의 개발자와 운용자의 보조 역할을 담당한다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.300-301
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 스마트폰 기반 원격 자전거 장금 장치를 설계한다. 전원 공급이 따로 없는 장금 장치의 특성상 저전력 동작이 필수적이다. 따라서 스마트폰과의 통신을 위해 BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy)의 사용을 제안하였으며, 그 결과 장치의 전력 소모를 줄일 수 있을 것으로 기대한다. 또한 자전거에 부착된 소형발전기를 이용해 생산한 에너지를 활용한 배터리 충전 시스템을 설계에 반영함으로써 배터리의 방전으로 인한 장금 장치의 오작동을 예방할 수 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.609-617
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• 2014

Even though the variable pitch control of a wind turbine blade is known as an effective component for power control over the rated wind speed, it has limited applicability to small wind turbines because of its relatively high cost on the price of small wind turbine. Instead, stall control is generally applied in the blade design without any additional cost. However, stall delay can frequently be caused by high turbulence around the turbine blade, and it can produce control failures through excessive rotational speed and overpowering the electrical generator. Therefore, a passive pitch control module should be considered, where the pitch moves with the aerodynamic forces of the blade and returns by the elastic restoring force. In this study, a method to calculate the pitch moment, torque, and thrust based on the lift and drag of the rotating blade wing was demonstrated, and several effective wing shapes were reviewed based on these forces. Their characteristics will be estimated with variable wind speed and be utilized as basic data for the design of the passive pitch control module.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.465-465
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• 2009

Wind power is one of the most reliable renewable energy sources and the installed wind turbine capacities are increasing radically every year. Although wind power has been favored by the public in general, the problem with the impact of wind turbine noise on people living in the vicinity of the turbines has been increased. Low noise wind turbine design is becoming more important as noise is spreading more adverse effect of wind turbine to public. This paper demonstrates the design of 10 kW class wind turbines, each of three blades, a rotor diameter 6.4m, a rated rotating speed 200 rpm and a rated wind speed 10 m/s. The optimized airfoil is dedicated for the 75% spanwise position because the dominant source of a wind turbine blade has been known as trailing edge noise from the outer 25% of the blade. Numerical computations are performed for incompressible flow and for Mach number at 0.145 and for Reynolds numbers at $1.02{\times}10^6$ with a lift performance, which is resistant to surface contamination and turbulence intensity. The objective in the low design process is to reduce noise emission, while sustaining high aerodynamic efficiency. Dominant broadband noise sources are predicted by semi-empirical formulas composed of the groundwork by Brooks et al. and Lowson associated with typical wind turbine operation conditions. During the airfoil redesign process, the aerodynamic performance is analyzed to minimize the wind turbine power loss. The results obtained from the design process show that the design method is capable of designing airfoils with reduced noise using a commercial 10 kW class wind turbine blade airfoil as a basis. The new optimized airfoil clearly indicates reduction of total SPL about 3 dB and higher aerodynamic performance.

• Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.236-242
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• 2012

This study has been carried out the experiment for the possibility of biogas reforming using waste heat. The source of this waste heat is the exhaust gas from a small-sized gas engine generator. For recovering the waste heat, Two-stage heat exchanger is manufactured. The two-stage heat exchanger is composed of a heat exchanger for the exhaust gas and a heat exchanger for the water. This two-stage heat exchanger is used for reforming the biogas by means of on-site hydrogen production at the small-sized gas engine generator. The two-stage heat exchanger is coupled with the biogas reformer which is a kind of catalytic reformer. To confirm a heat recovery efficiency of the two-stage heat exchanger, temperature differences of inlet and outlet locations are measured. Also, the variations of syngas concentrations with various biogas flow rates are investigated. As a result using manufactured two-stage heat exchanger, the biogas can be reformed from waste heat recovery. This experiment suggests that the exhaust gas heat exchanger is available for reforming the biogas.

• Composites Research
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.22-31
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• 2009

Recently the wind energy has been alternatively used as a renewable energy resource instead of the mostly used fossil fuel due to its lack and environmental issues. This work is to propose a structural design and analysis procedure for development of the 500W class small wind turbine system which will be applicable to relatively low speed region like Korea and for the domestic use. The wind turbine blade was performed structural analysis including stress, deformation, buckling, vibration and fatigue. In addition, the blade should be safe from the impact damage due to FOD(Foreign Object Damage) including the bird strike. MSC.Dytran was used in order to analyze the bird strike penomena on the blade, and the applied method Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian was evaluated by comparison with the previous study results. Finally, the structural test was carried out and its test results were compared with the estimated results for evaluation of the designed structure.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.11
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• pp.1407-1413
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• 2011

In this paper, the structural design for composite blade was performed and full scale structural test was conducted to verify the structural design and integrity of composite blade. Firstly, FE analysis was performed using commercial software ABAQUS under conditions of rated wind speed and Case H in IEC 61400-2. Lay-up sequence and ply thickness were designed based on FE results. And to verify the structural design, full scale structural test was conducted according to IEC 61400-2 under identical loading conditions of FE analysis. Finally, the force-deflection and local strain behavior of composite blade were evaluated.