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Design of Tower Damper Gain Scheduling Algorithm for Wind Turbine Tower Load Reduction (풍력터빈 타워 하중 저감을 위한 타워 댐퍼 게인 스케줄링 알고리즘 설계)

  • Kim, Cheol-Jim;Kim, Kwan-Su;Paek, In-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2018
  • This paper deals with the NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) 5-MW reference wind turbine. The controller which include MPPT (Maximum power point tracking) control algorithm and tower load reduction control algorithm was designed by MATLAB Simulink. This paper propose a tower damper algorithm to improve the existing tower damper algorithm. To improve the existing tower damper algorithm, proposed tower damper algorithm were applied the thrust sensitivity scheduling and PI control method. The thrust sensitivity scheduling was calculated by thrust force formula which include thrust coefficient table. Power and Tower root moment DEL (Damage Equivalent Load) was set as a performance index to verify the load reduction algorithm. The simulation were performed 600 seconds under the wind conditions of the NTM (Normal Turbulence Model), TI (Turbulence Intensity)16% and 12~25m/s average wind speed. The effect of the proposed tower damper algorithm is confirmed through PSD (Power Spectral Density). The proposed tower damper algorithm reduces the fore-aft moment DEL of the tower up to 6% than the existing tower damper algorithm.

Necessity to Install Integrated Control Tower for Overseas Energy Resources Acquisition and Securing Funds (해외에너지자원획득과 소요자금 확보를 위한 통합 컨트롤 타워 설치 필요성에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Ji-Kwang;Lee, Jae-Heon
    • Plant Journal
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.40-45
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    • 2010
  • Necessity to install control towers has been studied to acquire overseas energy resources and to secure funds. At present, domestic energy companies do business independently. Institutions which support plant EPC companies as partners of package deal are separated. This causes the low records at package deal for overseas resources acquisition. Except UK and USA, nations which have major companies developed overseas energy resources early by promoting a large national company. Consequently, they currently have good records. This study suggests the necessities to install integrated control tower for overseas energy resources acquisition and securing funds and the following are the ways ; 1) promote a large national company by consolidation of separate energy companies, 2) install plant EPC promotion department which support private plant EPC companies, 3) make a integrated control tower in high level government office to connect between a large national company and plant EPC promotion department.

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Input Shaper Design for Tower Crane in Consideration of Nonlinear Coupled Motions (타워크레인의 비선형 연성 운동 특성을 고려한 입력성형기 설계)

  • Kim, Byung-Gyu;Hong, Seong-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.26 no.9
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    • pp.88-95
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    • 2009
  • Input shaping has been a very effective control method for reducing payload swing in industrial bridge and gantry cranes. However, conventional input shapers often degrade performance when applied to tower cranes because of the nonlinear coupled dynamics between rotational and radial motions in tower cranes. To alleviate this problem, a new input shaper for tower cranes is developed by means of dynamic modeling, analysis and optimization. This work investigates the tower crane dynamics along with parameters of the tower crane varied. A performance index for input shaper design is proposed so as to reduce the coupled residual vibration of a tower crane using only rotational motion of tower crane. The proposed new input shaper is verified to be effective through simulations and experiments.

Automation of Tower Cranes based on Optimal Control Method (최적 제어법에 의한 타워크레인의 자동화에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jin-Woo;Kim, Sang-Bong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.213-222
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    • 1993
  • This paper is concerned with automation of tower cranes in view of the robust control of tower crane during take-off, load hoisting, load lowering and landing. The model equation of the tower crane is induced by using Lagrange's equation and it is linearized at equillibrium point. The control is realized by adopting the optimal regulator method. The effectiveness is proved through the experimental results for the oscillation control of cargo rope and the position controls of trolley and boom by the implementation of digital control using 16 bits microcomputer for the designed optimal control law.

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Tasks for Present and Future of National Mental Health Promotion in Korea : Focused on Inter-Sectoral Collaborations (국가 정신건강증진사업의 현황과 향후 과제 : 부문 간 협력을 중심으로)

  • Chae, Eun-Hee;Lee, Hyo Young
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.25-39
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    • 2013
  • Objectives: The purpose of this manuscript was to come up with ideas about supportive policies and multi-sectoral collaboration for Mental health Promotion. Methods: The authors reviewed about 40 various international & internal scientific articles including WHO's publications related with mental health programmes and mental health promotion. Besides, we reviewed inter-sectoral and multi-sectoral collaborations of mental health works for policy recommendations. Results: There are many problems in present mental health services; lack of budgets, existence of many vulnerable people, lack of mental health indexes, low accessibilities to mental health services, lack of supportive policies, and no existence of comprehensive control tower. Conclusions: It is important to strengthen public mental health services focused on health promotion. In addition, reinforcement of the infra-structures and establishment of a comprehensive control tower for mental health promotion should be done immediately. The control tower will have specific roles in structures of different government sectors and infrastructures for inter-sectoral collaboration.

Dynamic Stability Analysis of a Submarine by Changing Conning Tower Position and Control Planes (잠수함의 Conning Tower 위치 및 제어판 형태에 따른 동적 안정성 분석)

  • Han, Ji-Hun;Jeong, Jae-Hun;Lee, Seung-Bum;Jang, Keun-Young;Lee, Seung-Keon
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.41 no.6
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    • pp.389-394
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, the captive model test of a submarine using the RA test was carried out in a square basin. The target model submarine consisted of four types varying according to the position of conning tower and control planes. Hydrodynamic derivatives were acquired by multi-regression analysis. As a result, horizontal dynamic stability indexes of the four types presented positive values and satisfied dynamic stability requirements. In addition, the stability index of type 1 and type 4 - each with the same cruciform configuration of the aft planes - scored within the acceptable range of motion stability.

Design and application of a novel eddy current damper for a high-rise sightseeing tower

  • Kaifang Liu;Yanhui Liu;Chia-Ming Chang;Ping Tan
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.86 no.4
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    • pp.573-587
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    • 2023
  • A conventional tuned mass damper (TMD) provides a passive control option to suppress the structures' wind- or earthquake-induced vibrations. However, excessive displacements of the TMD raise concerns in the practical implementation. Therefore, this study proposes a novel TMD designed for and deployed on a high-rise sightseeing tower. The device consists of an integrated two-way slide rail mount and an eddy current damper (ECD) with a stroke control mechanism. This stroke control mechanism allows the damping coefficient to automatically increase when the stroke reaches a predetermined value, preventing excessive damper displacements during large earthquakes. The corresponding two-stage damping parameters are designed with a variable-thickness copper plate to enable the TMD stroke within a specified range. Thus, this study discusses the detailed design schemes of the device components in TMD. The designed two-stage damping parameters are also numerically verified, and the structural responses with/without the TMD are compared. As seen in the results, the proposed TMD yields effective control authority to limit the acceleration response within a comfort level. In addition, this TMD resolves the spatial availability for the damper movement in high-rise buildings by the controllable damping mechanism.

Design of Power and Load Reduction Controller for a Medium-Capacity Wind Turbine (중형 풍력터빈의 출력 및 타워 하중저감 제어기 설계)

  • Kim, Kwansu;Paek, Insu;Kim, Cheol-Jin;Kim, Hyun-Gyu;Kim, Hyoung-Gil
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2016
  • A control algorithm for a 100 kW wind turbine is designed in this study. The wind turbine is operating as a variable speed variable pitch (VSVP) status. Also, this wind turbine is a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) Type. For the medium capacity wind turbine considered in this study, it was found that the optimum tip speed ratios to achieve the maximum power coefficients varied with wind speeds. Therefore a commercial blade element momentum theory and multi-body dynamics based program was implemented to consider the variation of aerodynamic coefficients with respect to Reynolds numbers and to find out the power and thrust coefficients with respect tip speed ratio and blade pitch angles. In the end a basic power controller was designed for below rated, transition and above rated regions, and a load reduction algorithm was designed to reduce tower vibration by the nacelle motion. As a result, damage equivalent Load (DEL) of tower fore-aft has been reduced by 32%. From dynamic simulations in the commercial program, the controller was found to work properly as designed. Experimental validation of the control algorithm will be done in the future.

Active Control of Noise from Fan Blowers in Tower-type Air Conditioners (타워형 에어컨 송풍기 소음의 능동제어)

  • Ryu, Kyungwan;Hong, Chinsuk;Jeong, Wei Bong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.87-93
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    • 2017
  • This paper investigates active noise control of tower-type air conditioners using the filtered-x least mean square (FXLMS) algorithm to reduce fan blower noise transmission. Firstly, the main components required for the active control system including the error sensor, the control speaker and the reference sensors are selected. Since the noise could significantly reduce if the reference signal includes every frequency response information, a various reference signals from accelerometers and a microphone are used. Secondly, the controller based on the FXLMS algorithm with a single-channel reference signal is implemented. Then, the control performance is examined experimentally for the different reference signals. It is found that the accelerometer signal well possesses the motor vibration related noise and a microphone signal could includes global noise. When using the reference signal with a microphone located near the motor and the fan blower, the active control system reduces the noise globally, except for several peaks.

Collection Efficiency Enhancement of Spray Tower Scrubber by Introducing Electrospray with Two-flow Nozzle (분무탑식 스크러버에서 이류체 정전분무에 의한 집진효율의 향상)

  • Hwang, You-Seong;Kim, Jong-Ho;Kim, Jong-Hyeon
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.339-345
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    • 2010
  • There have been a number of efforts to satisfy national emission regulations and reduce the amount of emitted air pollutants. There are several air pollution control devices, however, only wet scrubber is efficiently used to remove particulate matters and gaseous pollutants, even if it has minimum collection efficiency in the particle size range of $0.1{\sim}1{\mu}m$. This study aimed to improve the collection efficiency of a spray tower type scrubber by introducing an electrospray system with two-flow nozzle. We found that the collection efficiency of a spray tower type scrubber was similar to that of a conventional wet scrubber. However, installation of an electrospray system in the scrubber resulted in drastic further improvement of collection efficiency comparing to that of a conventional scrubber, which is 26%, 35.2%, and 45.1% at the liquid to gas ratio of 0.26 $L/m^3$ and 19.9%, 35.1%, and 42.5% at 0.34 $L/m^3$ for the applied voltage of -30 kV, -35 kV, and -40 kV, respectively. Therefore, we found that the introduction of an electrospray system is very effective to improve the collection efficiency of a spray tower type scrubber.