• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.233-254
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• 2018

In order to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels, a policy to increase the production capacity of wind turbine is set up. This can be achieved with increasing the dimensions of offshore wind turbine blades. However, this increase in size implies serious problems of stability and durability. Considering the cost of large turbines and financial consequences of their premature failure, it is imperative to carry out numerical simulations over long periods. Here, an energy-conserving time-stepping scheme is proposed in order to ensure the satisfying computation of long-term response. The proposed scheme is implemented for three-dimensional solid based on Biot strain measures, which is used for modeling flexible blades. The simulations are performed at full spatial scale. For reliable design process, the wind loads should be represented as realistically as possible, including the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) dynamic effects on wind turbine blades. However, full-scale 3D FSI simulations for long-term wind loading remain of prohibitive computation cost. Thus, the model to quantify the wind loads proposed here is a simple, but not too simple to be representative for preliminary design studies.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2011

The wake generated by a wind turbine has an effect on performance of a downstream wind turbine as well as mechanical loads. This paper investigated characteristics of fatigue load at the blade root due to the wake effects and quantitatively analyzed its effects at operating condition of a 5MW tripod offshore wind turbine using Bladed 4.1 software. The wake effects was studied the way the wake's center position move from the rotor center to the blade tip to the far-away position where the wake doesn't affect the wind turbine. When wake's center was located on the blade tip or the rotor center, damage equivalent fatigue load was higher than other positions. It was up to 10~14% compared to those of non-wake case. Results of this study would be helpful to design wind turbines and wind farms to have lifetimes more than 20 years of the wind turbine.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1908-1914
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• 2012

풍력발전기의 용량이 점차 대형화되고 해상풍력단지는 수심이 깊은 곳에 조성됨에 따라 해상풍력발전구조물의 하부구조 및 기초시공비용 또한 급격히 증가될 것으로 예상된다. 석션버켓기초는 버켓형식의 기초를 자중에 의한 관입과 자중관입 이후 석션에 의한 관입으로 설치하는 공법이며, 대형장비 대신 충분한 용량의 펌프만 있으면 기초의 시공이 가능하므로 시공이 간편하고 경제적인 공법으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 석션버켓기초의 경제성을 검토하기 위하여 상부지반이 사질지반과 연약지반인 경우일 때 대수심 조건에 적용 가능한 기초형식인 자켓과 석션버켓기초를 적용한 트라이포드의 시공비용을 비교하였다. 그 결과 지반이 단단하고, 기초개수가 증가할수록 자켓형식보다는 트라이포드 버켓기초형식을 적용하는 것이 더 경제적임을 확인하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.255-264
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 부유식 해상풍력발전의 운영 및 유지보수에 필요한 체계적인 정비계획 수립을 위해 최적화기법을 활용한 수리 모형을 제안하고자 한다. 주간 단위로 선박과 기술자를 운용하는 계획정비와 고장정비 작업의 배정에 혼합정수계획법(Mixed Integer Linear Programming, MILP)을 도입하였다. 본 연구의 최적화 모델을 활용한 사례연구에서는 선박과 기술자의 투입 규모가 유지정비 비용에 미치는 영향을 확인하였으며 1년간 정비계획 수립에서 더 나아가 정비작업별 상세 스케줄링까지 연계되는 단계적 최적화 방법론을 함께 제시하였다. 세부적으로는 기상 데이터와 정비 데이터를 활용한 발전량 손실을 비가동 비용으로 반영하여 정비 우선순위를 선정하였으며, 이를 통해 국내 실정에 맞는 해상풍력단지의 유지보수 전략을 제시할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.461-477
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• 2022

Dynamic Positioning (DP) is a system that uses computer-controlled thrusters, propellers, and other propulsion devices to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading. In this study, a wind turbine installation vessel with DP capabilities was proposed for use in mild environmental conditions in the Yellow Sea. The thruster arrangements of the vessel were analyzed in relation to wind and current loads, and it was found that a four-corner arrangement of thrusters provided the best position-keeping performance. The vessel's DP control performance was also analyzed in relation to the increased environmental load caused by the presence of a wind turbine, using a capability plot. The vessel's performance was evaluated in three different states: floating with no load, during the loading of a wind turbine and suction buckets, and after the wind turbine has been installed. The use of 750 kW and 1,000 kW thrusters was also considered, and the environmental loads in the Saemangeum coastal area and the environmental load when a 5-Megawatt wind turbine is on board were assessed. The study concluded that at least four thrusters should be used for DP to safely manage the installation process of wind turbines.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.475-475
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• 2009

Recent alarming acceleration of global warming has made power generations using renewable energy to be in the middle of the spotlight. Korean government has also announced that it will make the related industry to be nation's one of main export items with high investments to low carbon green growth industry. To achieve this goal of exporting the renewable energy power generation system beyond domestic use, internationally acceptable rules should be applied and the three step processes of design, performance assessment and certification should follow international standards. Corresponding this international requests, IEC(International Electrotechnical Commission) is conducting the establishment of rules in TC88 for technical requirements of wind turbines. Design life-time of a wind turbine is required to be at least 20 years. In the meantime, the wind turbine will experience a lot of load cases such as extreme loads and fatigue loads which will include several typhoons per year and extreme gusts with 50 years recurrence period as well as endless turbulence flow. Therefore, IEC 61400-1 specifies design load cases to be considered in the wind turbine design and requires the wind turbine to withstand the load cases in various operational situations. It thus appears that the examination of contents and decisions discussed in the international standard committee will help people in the field of offshore wind energy and ocean energy converters.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.81-84
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 대형 풍력발전시스템에서 신뢰성 및 품질에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 기계적인 부품에 있어서 증속기어를 제거함으로서 잠재적인 고장 및 전력품질 저하의 문제점을 해결하고자 한다. 제안된 방식은 회전가능한 고정자와 슬립링을 적용하고, 고정자를 회전시킴으로써 기존의 증속기를 갖는 풍력발전시스템과 유사한 발전특성을 확보하고자 한다. 또한, 제안된 방식의 동작과 성능을 확인하기 위해 PSIM 시뮬레이션 패키지를 사용하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.291-301
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• 2022

Although mostly used in wind turbine market, single rotor wind turbines have problems with transportation and installation costs due to their large size. In order to solve such problems, multi-rotor wind turbine is being proposed; however, light weight design of multi-rotor wind turbine is required considering the installation at offshore or deep sea. This study proposes the systematic design process of the multi-rotor wind turbine focused on its supporting structure with simultaneous consideration of static and dynamic behaviors in an ideal situation. 2D and successive 3D topology optimization process based on the density method were applied to minimize the compliance of supporting structure. To realize the conceptual design obtained by topology optimization for manufacturing feasibility, the derived 3D structure was modified to have shell structures and optimized again through parametric design using the design of experiments and the response surface method for detail design of their thicknesses and radii. The resultant structure was determined to satisfy the stress and the buckling load constraint as well as to minimize the weight and the resultant supporting structure were verified numerically.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.139-160
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• 2015

The global performance of the 5MW OC4 semisubmersible floating wind turbine in random waves was numerically simulated by using the turbine-floater-mooring fully coupled and time-domain dynamic analysis program FAST-CHARM3D. There have been many papers regarding floating offshore wind turbines but the effects of second-order wave-body interactions on their global performance have rarely been studied. The second-order wave forces are actually small compared to the first-order wave forces, but its effect cannot be ignored when the natural frequencies of a floating system are outside the wave-frequency range. In the case of semi-submersible platform, second-order difference-frequency wave-diffraction forces and moments become important since surge/sway and pitch/roll natural frequencies are lower than those of typical incident waves. The computational effort related to the full second-order diffraction calculation is typically very heavy, so in many cases, the simplified approach called Newman's approximation or first-order-wave-force-only are used. However, it needs to be justified against more complete solutions with full QTF (quadratic transfer function), which is a main subject of the present study. The numerically simulated results for the 5MW OC4 semisubmersible floating wind turbine by FAST-CHARM3D are also extensively compared with the DeepCWind model test results by Technip/NREL/UMaine. The predicted motions and mooring tensions for two white-noise input-wave spectra agree well against the measure values. In this paper, the numerical static-offset and free-decay tests are also conducted to verify the system stiffness, damping, and natural frequencies against the experimental results. They also agree well to verify that the dynamic system modeling is correct to the details. The performance of the simplified approaches instead of using the full QTF are also tested.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.339-344
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• 2015

석션기초는 해양분야의 기초 및 앵커로 널리 사용되고 있으며, 최근 들어 해상풍력발전기의 기초로도 그 활용 범위가 확대되고 있다. 많은 선행 연구로부터 기초구조물의 강성이 해상풍력발전기의 동적응답에 영향을 줄 수 있기 때문에 기초구조물에 대한 적절한 모델링이 필요한 것으로 입증된 바 있다. 본 논문에서는 3차원 유한요소 해석을 수행하여 석션기초의 강성행렬을 산정하였다. 이를 기존의 중력식 기초 강성 산정식에 의한 결과와 비교하였으며, 산정한 강성행렬을 적용하여 구조물의 동적응답과 고유진동수 검토를 위한 통합하중해석을 수행하였다. 해석결과 mudline에서 발생하는 하중에 대한 영향은 크지 않은 것으로 나타났지만, 기초를 고정단으로 모델링한 경우 고유진동수가 최대 약 10% 과대 예측하는 것으로 나타났다. 풍력발전기 공진 회피에 대한 검토 시 기초강성을 고려해야할 것으로 판단된다.