• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.590-593
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• 2009

Tidal current power system is one of ocean renewable energies that can minimize the environmental impact with many advantages compared to other energy sources. Not like others, the produced energy can be precisely predicted without weather conditions and also the operation rate is very high. To convert the current into power, the first device encountered to the incoming flow is the rotor that can transform into rotational energy. The performance of rotor can be determined by various design parameters including numbers of blade, sectional shape, diameter, and etc. The stream lines near the rotating rotor is very complex and the interference effects around the system is also difficult to predict. This paper introduces the experiment of rotor performance and also the effect of design parameter on the performance of HAT rotor by CFD.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.37-41
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• 2012

Due to global warming, the need to secure alternative resources has become more important nationally. Because of the very strong current on the west coast, with a tidal range of up to 10 m, there are many suitable sites for the application of TCP (tidal current power) in Korea. In the southwest region, a strong current is created in the narrow channels between the numerous islands. A rotor is an essential component that can convert tidal current energy into rotational energy to generate electricity. The design optimization of a rotor is very important to maximize the power production. The performance of a rotor can be determined using various parameters, including the number of blades, shape, sectional size, diameter, etc. There are many offshore jetties and piers with high current velocities. Thus, a VAT (vertical axis turbine) system, which can generate power regardless of flow direction changes, could be effectively applied to cylindrical structures. A VAT system could give an advantage to a caisson-type breakwater because it allows water to circulate well. This paper introduces a multi-layer vertical axis tidal current power system. A Savonius turbine was designed, and a performance analysis was carried out using CFD. A physical model was also demonstrated in CWC, and the results are compared with CFD.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.366-372
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• 2015

Ocean energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources. In particular, South Korea is one of the countries where it is economically and technically feasible to develop tidal current power plants to use tidal current energy. In this study, based on the design code for HARP_Opt (Horizontal axis rotor performance optimizer) developed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) in the United States, and applying the BEMT (Blade element momentum theory) and GA (Genetic algorithm), the optimal shape design and performance evaluation of the horizontal axis rotor for a 200-kW-class tidal current turbine were performed using different numbers of blades (two or three) and a pitch control method (variable pitch or fixed pitch). As a result, the VSFP (Variable Speed Fixed Pitch) turbine with three blades showed the best performance. However, the performances of four different cases did not show significant differences. Hence, it is necessary when selecting the final design to consider the structural integrity related to the fatigue, along with the economic feasibility of manufacturing the blades.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.263-269
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• 2010

The present study deals with the investigation about the improvement of performance of tidal stream turbine blade (HAT) with tip rake. HAT impeller has sometimes experienced noise and vibration by Tip vortex which causes even erosion and severe efficiency loss to the blade, The newly proposed tip rake impeller can make the tip vortex week compared with a normal impeller by preventing the three dimensional effect at tip region. In order to find out the optimum rake impeller, three cases have been designed and the performance of the designed rake impellers has been validated by the commercial CFD code(Fluent). The efficiency of optimized rake impeller was up to 4.6% higher than the conventional impeller. The more parametric study for high efficiency and good cavitation performance is expected to be conducted in a near future.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.632-635
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• 2009

Nowadays renewable energy has undergone major development, however most renewable energy resources still have demerit which is under the influence of environmental factors that can not be set up the power plants or can not be generated the rated power. To wander from the point of environmental instability, the present paper looks at the tidal current energy which can supply regular electric power. It has an important merit which is more predictable than others, however the place which can be set up is limited and the turbine system must be optimized. The development of the optimized rotor blades design is urgent to obtain regular electric power using the tidal current energy. Therefore, the paper expands on this idea and presents a conceptual design of 100kW horizontal axis rotor blade for the tidal current turbine using blade element momentum (BEM) analysis. The compatibility of horizontal axis tidal turbine (HATT) is verified using a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, ANSYS-CFX. This paper presents results of the numerical analysis, such as pressure, streak line and the performance curves with torque data for the inflow of the horizontal axis tidal current turbine (HATT).

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.611-614
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• 2009

The present paper relates to an integration power system combining tidal power generation and ocean current power generation, and more particularly, to an integration power system combining a tidal power plant and two ocean current power parks, which is capable of increasing the operating rate of power facilities and efficiently generating electrical energy by using incoming seawater into the lake through turbine generators of a tidal power plant or fast flow of seawater discharged to a sea side through sluice gates of a tidal power dam. It is shown that the integration power system is a new promising ocean power system and the ocean current turbine generators in the ocean current power parks of the integration power system are smaller in size and larger in power generation capacity compared with the tidal current turbine generators in the ocean.

• 전기의세계
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.26-35
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• 1989

발전플랜트의 입지조건과 경제성을 고려하여 원자력 및 화력발전소의 단위 설비용량이 커지면서 개개 발전소가 전력계통에 미치는 영향이 지대해지고 있다. 따라서 발전제어의 신뢰성 확보, 운전조작의 간편화와 송전의 장거리화로 전력계통의 안정성 향상 및 전압과 주파수의 일정한 유지가 중요한 문제로 대두되고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 터빈제어, 보일러 제어 및 발전기제어 등으로 분리 제어되어 온 발전제어 계통을 통합하고 Digital화하여 발전계통과 송.배전계통을 연계, 제어해야 전기의 품질을 향상시킬 수 있을 것이다. 따라서 현재 전력계통에 보급되고 있는 원방집중 제어방식에 의한 전력계통의 조류 및 전압의 감시, 각 발전소의 운전상황, 송.배전선로의 상태등 모든 변수들은 취합, 전력계통의 상황에 따라 각 발전기의 출력 및 무효전력의 적장분배, 전압과 주파수 조정, 및 조상설비등 제어하는 전력계통 통합시스템이 적용되어야 할 것으로 본다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.154-154
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• 2012

Many suggestions is offered to resolve global warming. Tidal current generation is producing power by switched tidal difference sea water horizontal fluid flow produced by tidal difference using rotor and generator. So, change the angle of inflow condition due to the entrance of efficiency are considered. We therefore investigated three dimensional flow analysis and performance evaluation using commercial ANSYS-CFX code for horizontal axis turbine. Then We also studied three dimensional flow characteristics of a rotating rotor and blade surface streamlines around a rotor. As a result, Cp was highest at TSR 5.5, especially the larger changes in the angle of inflow condition decreased efficiency.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.44-51
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• 2012

Due to a high tidal range of up to 10 m on the west coast of Korea, numerous tidal current projects are being planned and constructed. The turbine, which initially converts the tidal energy, is an important component because it affects the efficiency of the entire system. Its performance is determined by design variables such as the number of blades, the shape of foils, and the size of a hub. To design a turbine that can extract the maximum power on the site, the depth and duration of current velocity with respect to direction should be considered. Verifying the performance of a designed turbine is important, and requires a circulating water channel (CWC) facility. A physical model for the performance test of the turbine should be carefully designed and compared to results from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. In this study, a horizontal axis tidal current turbine is designed based on the blade element theory. The proposed turbine's performance is evaluated using both CFD and a CWC experiment. The sealing system, power train, measuring devices, and generator are arranged in a nacelle, and the complete TCP system is demonstrated in a laboratory scale.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.523-524
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• 2015

신재생 에너지는 발전 시 연료가 들지 않는다는 특징과 친환경적인 이유로 각광 받고 있다. 이러한 특징으로 인해 에너지 독립 계통을 구성하는 데 주요 역할을 한다. 풍력, 태양광, 에너지 저장 장치 등이 분산 전원으로서 계통을 구성하게 되는데, 낮은 효율과 높은 초기 설치비용으로 인해 디젤 발전기나 마이크로 터빈 등 소형 발전기를 예비 전력으로서 부착하는 경우가 대부분이다. 이러한 분산 전원들은 가격이 제각각이며 기존의 화석연료 발전기처럼 비용 함수 모델링이 어려워 경제적 분석이 어려웠다. 이 논문은 이러한 신재생 에너지를 사용한 독립 마이크로그리드를 경제적 관점에서 분석하는 것이 목적이다. 따라서 계통을 분석하는 가장 보편적인 방법인 최적 조류 계산(OPF, Optimal Power Flow)방법과 가격을 최소화하는 점을 찾는 경제급전(ED, Economic Dispatch)방법을 사용하였다. 두 가지 방법의 결과를 비교하여 발전 비용을 줄일 수 있는지에 대해 조사하였다. 7-Bus 가상 계통을 만들어 사용하였고, OPF와 ED의 발전 비용은 PowerFactory$^{(R)}$ 프로그램을 통해 시뮬레이션 하여 데이터를 얻었다.