• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 2004년도 유체기계 연구개발 발표회 논문집
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• pp.125-131
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• 2004

1.6 MW class supersonic partial admission impulse turbine has been designed and tested in Korea Aerospace Research Institute for the liquid rocket engine application. The test has been performed using a high pressure air source facility in KARI. For the turbine power absorption, a hydraulic dynamometer is used. Appropriate similarity relations are used for the determination of test condition. Various settings of turbine pressure ratio and rotational speed are tested to investigate global turbine characteristics. From measured data, Parameters related to the turbine design are derived and validated.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.32-39
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• 2002

The purpose of this 3-D numerical simulation is to calculate and examine the complex 3-D stall phenomena on the rotor blade and wake distribution of the wind turbine. The flow characteristics of 500kW Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) are compared with the calculated 3-D stall phenomena and wake distribution. We used the CFX-TASCflow to predict flow and power characteristics of the wind turbine. The CFD results are somewhat consistent with the BEM (Blade Element Momentum) results. And, the rotational speed becomes faster, the 3-D stall region becomes smaller. Moreover, the pressure distribution on the pressure side that directly gets the incoming wind grows high as it goes toward the tip of the blade. The pressure distribution on the blade's suction side tells us that the pressure becomes low in the leading edge of the airfoil as it moves from the hub to the tip. However, we are not able to precisely predict on the power coefficient of the rotor blade at the position of generating complex 3-D stall region.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.33.2-33.2
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• 2011

The 'NREL Phase VI' model with a 10.06m diameter was tested in the NASA Ames tunnel to make a reference data of the computational models. The test was conducted at the one rotational speed, blade tip speed 38m/s and the Reynolds number of the sectional airfoils in that test was around 1E6. The 1/5 scale down model of the 'NREL Phase VI' model was used in this paper to study the power characteristics in low Reynolds number region, 0.1E6 ~ 0.4E6 which is achievable range for the conventional wind tunnel facilities. The torque generated by the blade was directly measured by using the torque sensor installed in the rotating axis for a given wind speed and rotational speed. The power characteristics below the stall condition, lambda > 4, was presented in this paper. The power coefficient is very low in the condition below the Re. 0.2E6 and rapidly increases as the Re. increases. And it still increases but the variation is not so big in the condition above the Re. 0.3E6. This results shows that to study the performance of the wind turbine blade by using the scaled down model, the Re. should be larger than the 0.3E6.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.70-79
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• 2017

The output power of turbine is greatly affected by the losses generated within the passage. In order to develop a better turbine or loss models, an experimental study was conducted using a linear cascade experimental apparatus. The total pressure loss and flow structures were measured at two cross-sectional planes located downstream of blade row. Measurement was conducted in a steady state for the several different locations of the blade row along the rotational direction. The blade row moved by 20 % of the pitch, and tip clearance was varied from 2% to 8%. Axial-type blades were used and its blade chord was 200mm. A square nozzle was applied and its size was $200mm{\times}200mm$. The experiment was conducted at a Reynolds number of $3{\times}10^5$ based on the chord. Nozzle flow angle sets to $65^{\circ}$ based on the axial direction and the solidity of blade row was 1.38. From the experimental results, the total pressure loss was greatly varied in the receding region than in the entering region. The flow properties within the blade passage were strongly changed according to the location of blade row.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.229-233
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• 2019

Large-scale High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) wind power generators suffer from high electromagnetic force and high torque due to their high current density and low rotational speed. Therefore, the torque and Lorentz force of HTS wind power generators should be carefully investigated. In this paper, we proposed a Performance Evaluation System (PES) to physically test the structural stability of HTS coils with high torque before fabricating the generator. The PES is composed of the part of a pole-pair of the HTS generator for estimating the characteristic of the HTS coil. The 10 MW HTS generator and PES were analyzed using a 3D finite element method software. The performance of the HTS coil was evaluated by comparing the magnetic field distributions, the output power, and torque values of the 10 MW HTS generator and the PES. The magnetic flux densities, output power, and torque values of the HTS coils in the PES were the same as a pole-pair of the 10 MW HTS generator. Therefore, the PES-based evaluation method proposed in this paper can be used to estimate the critical characteristics of the HTS generator under high magnetic field and high torque before manufacturing the HTS wind turbines. These results will be used effectively to research and manufacture large-scale HTS wind turbine generators.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.92-99
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• 2016

풍력터빈은 정격풍속미만에서 최대출력을 내기위한 제어를 한다. 최대출력을 얻기 위한 방법 중에는 최적 TSR(Tip Speed Ratio)제어와 P&O(Perturbation and Observation) 제어가 대표적이라 할 수 있다. P&O 제어는 출력과 회전속도만을 이용하여 간단한 알고리즘으로 제어되지만 반응속도가 느린 것이 단점이라 할 수 있다. 최적 TSR 제어는 반응속도가 빠르지만 정확한 풍속을 알아야만 된다. 정확한 풍속을 구하기 위하여 측정을 하거나 예측하는 방법을 사용한다. 풍속을 측정하기 위하여 풍속계를 풍력터빈에 가까이 설치하게 되는 데, 이 때 블레이드의 간섭으로 정확한 풍속 측정이 쉽지 않다. 그래서 풍속을 예측하는 방법들이 사용하게 되었다. 풍속을 예측하기 위하여 신경망을 비롯한 다양한 수치해석 방법들이 사용되고 있으나 풍속예측 문제는 역문제와 관련이 있어 그리 간단치가 않다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 방법들과 다르게 역문제로 풀지 않고 바람의 출력그래프에서 터빈의 출력과 회전속도만을 이용하여 풍속을 예측할 수 있는 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. Matlab/Simulink을 사용하여 제안된 방법으로 풍속이 제대로 예측되며 최대 출력제어가 되는 것을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.169-180
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• 2008

As a major component of a power plant, a turbine generator must have sufficient reliability. Longer blades have lower natural frequency, thereby requiring that the design of the shaft and blade takes into account the coupling of the blade vibration mode, nodal diameter k=0 and k=1 with vibration of the shaft. The present work analyzes the coupling of the translation motion of the shaft with in-plane vibration of the blades with k=1 modes. At a rotational speed ${\Omega}_1=|{\omega}_s-{\omega}_b|$, the resonance of the blades has a relatively large amplitude. A violent coupled resonance was observed at a rotational speed ${\Omega}_2=|{\omega}_s+{\omega}_b|$. Resonance in blade vibration at ${\Omega}_1=|{\omega}_s-{\omega}_b|$ was experimentally confirmed.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.137-142
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• 2016

Variable Geometry System (VGS) is widely applied to the nozzle vane for the radial inflow turbine constituting automotive turbochargers for the purpose of optimizing the power output at each operating condition. In order to improve the performance of radial turbines with VGS, it is necessary to clarify the influences of the setting angle of nozzle vane on the internal flow of radial turbine. However, the experimental measurements are considered to be difficult for the flow in radial turbines because of the small size and the high rotational speed. In the present study, the numerical calculations were carried out for the flow in the radial turbine at three operating conditions by applying the corresponding nozzle vane exit angles, which were set up in the experimental study, as the inlet boundary condition. The numerical results revealed the characteristic flow behaviors at each operating condition.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.45-56
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• 2015

This paper aims to develop a submerged propeller turbine for micro hydropower plant which allows to sustain high values of efficiency in a broad range of hydrological conditions (H=2~6 m, $Q=0.15{\sim}0.39m^3/s$). The two aspects to be considered in this development are mechanical simplicity and high-efficiency operation. Unlike conventional turbines that have spiral casing and gear box, this is directing driving and no spiral casing. A 10 kW class turbine which has the most high potential of the power generation has been developed. The most important element in the design of turbine is the runner blade. The initial blade is designed using inverse design method and then the runner geometry is modified by classical hydraulic method. The design process is carried out in two steps. First, the blade shape is fix and then other components of submerged propeller turbine are designed. Computational fluid dynamics analyses based on the Navier-Stokes equations have been used to obtain overall performance data for the blade and the full turbine, respectively. The results generated by performance parameters(head, guide vane opening angle and rotational speed) variations are theoretically analysed. The evaluation criteria for the blade and the turbine performances are the pressure distribution and flow's behavior on the runner blades and turbine. The results of simulation reveals an efficiency of 91.5% and power generation of 10.5kW at the best efficiency point at the head of 4m and a discharge of $0.3m^3/s$.

• 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.