• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제36권8호
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• pp.1151-1157
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• 2012

OTEC기술은 신재생에너지 기술 중의 하나로 따듯한 표층수와 차가운 심층수의 온도차를 이용하여 전력을 생산하는 기술이다. 작동유체의 선정과 OTEC 사이클의 상태에 따라 에너지효율과 환경적인 측면에 많은 영향을 준다. OTEC의 작동유체로는 ammonia, R22, R407C, R410A가 있다. 본 논문에서는 OTEC 시스템의 최적화를 위해 $25^{\circ}C$에서의 증발압력를 비교하였다. 또한 밀폐사이클과 재생사이클에서의 작동유체에 따른 출력과 효율에 대하여 연구하였다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2013

In this paper, an analysis on exergy efficiency of high-efficiency R717 OTEC power system for the efficiency and pressure drop in main components were investigated theoretically in order to optimize the design for the operating parameters of this system. The operating parameters considered in this study include turbine and pump efficiency, and pressure drop in a condenser and evaporator, respectively. As the turbine efficiency of R717 OTEC power system increases, the exergy efficiency of this system increases. But pressure drop in the evaporator of R717 OTEC power system increases, the exergy efficiency of this system decreases, respectively. And, in case of exergy efficiency of this OTEC system, the turbine efficiency and pressure drop in a condenser on R717 OTEC power system is the largest and the lowest among operation parameters, respectively.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2010

The concept of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is simple and various types of OTEC have been proposed and tried. However the location of OTEC is limited because OTEC requires $20^{\circ}C$ of temperature difference as a minimum, so most of OTEC plants were constructed and experimented in tropical oceans. To solve this we proposed the modified OTEC which uses condenser discharged thermal energy of existing fossil or nuclear power plants. We call this system CTEC (Condenser Thermal Energy Conversion) as this system directly uses $32^{\circ}C$ partially saturated steam in condenser instead of $20{\sim}25^{\circ}C$ surface sea water as heat source. Increased temperature difference can improve thermal efficiency of Rankine cycle, but CTEC should be located near existing plant condenser and the length of cold water pipe between CTEC and deep cold sea water also increase. So friction loss also increases. Calculated result shows the change of efficiency, pumping power, net power and other parameters of modeled 7.9 MW CTEC at given condition. The calculated efficiency of CTEC is little larger than that of typical OTEC as expected. By proper location and optimization, CTEC could be considered another competitive renewable energy system.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2014

Ocean thermal energy conversion(OTEC) is a power generation method that utilizes temperature difference between the warm surface seawater and cold deep sea water of ocean. As potential sources of clean-energy supply, Ocean thermal energy conversion(OTEC) power plants' viability has been investigated. Therefore, this paper evaluated the thermodynamic performance of solar-OTEC convergence system for the production with electric power and desalinated water. The comparison analysis of solar-OTEC convergence system performance was carried out as the fluid temperature, saturated temperature difference and pressure of flash evaporator under equivalent conditions. As a results, maximum system efficiency, electric power and fresh water output show at 40, 10, 2.5 kPa of the flash evaporator pressure, respectively. And their respective enhancement ratios were approximately 6.1, 18, 8.6 times higher than that of the base open OTEC system. Also, performance of solar-OTEC system is the highest in the flash evaporator pressure of 10 kPa.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2013

전력을 생산하기 위해 해양온도차발전을 이용하는 것은 재생에너지를 이용하고 환경을 보호하는 한 가지 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 울산지역의 기후조건이 태양열 이용 해양온도차발전(SH-OTEC)에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 태양열 에너지는 제 2 의 열원으로 사용되었다. SH-OTEC 시스템에 사용할 가장 적합한 작동유체를 선정하기 위하여 여러 작동유체를 수치모사하였다. 해석결과, R152A 가 가장 적합한 작동유체로 나타났으며, R600 와 R600A 가 각각 그 다음 순으로 나타났다. 집열판 출구온도를 $20^{\circ}C$ 증가하였을 때 집열판의 유효면적은 월평균 태양에너지 게인(gain)의 변화로 인하여 $50m^2$ 에서 $97m^2$ 으로 요동함을 볼 수 있었다. 2-4%의 전형적인 해양온도차발전의 효율은 태양열을 이용함으로써 연평균 효율은 6.23%까지 증가하였다.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.38-43
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• 2014

In Ocean, the temperature of the deep sea water is always lower than that of the surface sea water. The temperature difference between the surface water and deep sea water is about $20^{\circ}C$. Based on thermodynamics, this temperature difference can be converted into mechanical power. The mechanical power can be converted to electricity through a generator. However, the temperature difference is relatively small compared with that of traditional steam turbines. It is difficult to apply the steam turbine technology for this small temperature difference directly. Therefore, the turbine for OTEC system using low temperature difference should be designed to meet the system requirement. The present study focuses on the development of the turbine for 20 kW OTEC system using R32. The paper includes the determination of working fluids, meridional design, turbine layout and 3D CFD results. With off-design points analysis, the full performance of 20kW OTEC turbine is investigated. Through the research, one stage radial type turbine with R32 as working fluid is successfully developed and can be applied to other high temperature heat source.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.309-325
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• 2013

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) systems utilize the temperature difference between the surface water and deep ocean water to generate electrical energy. In addition to ocean surface waves, wind and current, in certain locations like the Andaman Sea, Sulu Sea and the South China Sea the presence of strong internal waves may become a concern in floating OTEC system design. The current paper focuses on studying the dependence of the CWP hydrodynamic drag on relative velocity of the flow around the pipe, the effect of drag amplification due to vortex induced vibrations and the influence of internal waves on the floating semi and the cold water pipe integrated OTEC system. Two CWP sizes are modeled; the 4m diameter pipe represents a small scale prototype and the 10m diameter pipe represents a full commercial size CWP. are considered in the study.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제36권8호
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• pp.1036-1042
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• 2012

본 논문은 R744용 해양온도차 발전 시스템의 운전변수에 대한 최적의 설계를 위해서 엑서지효율을 이론적으로 분석하였다. 본 연구에서 고려된 작동변수로는 과열도와 과냉각도, 증발온도와 응축온도, 터빈과 펌프 효율 등이다. 분석한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. R744용 해양온도차 발전 사이클의 증발온도, 과열도, 터빈효율, 펌프효율이 증가할수록 엑서지 효율은 증가한다. 그러나 응축온도와 과냉각도는 증가할수록 엑서지 효율이 감소한다. 이 중에서 증발온도의 변화가 R744용 해양온도차 발전 사이클의 엑서지 효율에 가장 크게 영향을 미치고, 펌프효율이 가장 적게 영향을 미친다. 따라서 R744용 해양온도차 발전 사이클의 엑서지 효율을 증가시키기 위해서는 증발온도를 표층수 온도에 가장 근접하게 증가시키는 것이 유리하다.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2014

In this paper, the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion(OTEC) with vapor-vapor ejector is proposed newly. At this OTEC system, a vapor-vapor ejector is installed at inlet of condenser. The vapor-vapor ejector plays a very important role in increasing of the production work of low-stage turbine throughout the decrement of outlet pressure of ejector. The performance analysis is conducted for optimizing the system with HYSYS program. The procedure of performance analysis consists of outlet pressure of high turbine, the mass ratio of working fluid at separator, total working fluid rate, and nozzle diameters of vapor-vapor ejector. The main results is summarized as follows. The nozzle diameter is most important thing in this study. When each nozzle diameter of vapor-vapor ejector is 10 mm, the efficiency of OTEC system with vapor-vapor ejector shows the highest value. So it is necessary to set the optimized nozzle diameters of vapor-vapor ejector for achieving the high efficiency OTEC power system.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2008년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.1267-1272
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• 2008

OTEC power plants are studied as a viable option for the supply of clean energy. In this paper, the thermodynamic performance of OTEC system was calculated. The results show that the working fluids such as R32 and R125 would be alternatives based upon cutting down the system size, environmental preservation, and conditions without having a severe penalty in efficiency. the initial cost significantly. The regeneration system increase in energy efficiency, and the system can generate electricity when the difference in warm and cold seawater inlet temperatures are greater than $15^{\circ}C$. Also, the system efficiency of OTEC power plant using the condenser effluent from nuclear power plant instead of the surface water increased about 2%.