• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.522-530
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• 2007

In order to extract small hydropower in the very low specific speed range of $n_s<10$, a Positive Displacement Turbine (PDT) has been proposed and steady performances have been determined experimentally. However, the suppression of large pressure fluctuation is inevitable for practical application of PDT. Therefore, present study adopted 4-lobe helical type robe to reduce the pressure fluctuation. The results show that 4-lobe helical type robe can be adopted to suppress the pressure fluctuation drastically. Moreover, efficiency and unit power of the turbine with newly proposed 4-lobe helical type lobe are higher than those of the turbine with 3-lobe straight type robe.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2013

이 논문은 수직축 헬리컬 풍력터빈을 이용한 360 W급 풍력터빈나무(wind turbine tree)를 개발하는데 목적이 있다. 설계를 수행한 100 W 급 헬리컬 풍력터빈을 공력해석을 통해 성능을 예측하였다. 풍력터빈 1개의 성능 분석을 한 후 하나의 풍력단지와 같이 하나의 풍력터빈 나무에 4개의 풍력터빈을 설치하여 유동해석 시 출력의 변화를 확인하였다. 본 연구의 결과로부터 수직축 헬리컬 풍력터빈 나무의 결과를 속도분포와 압력분포로 도출하였고, 수치해석으로부터 정격출력 360 W 이상을 확보할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.59-65
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• 2013

본 논문은 헬리컬 풍력터빈을 이용한 풍력터빈 나무의 구조적 안정성을 검토하는데 목적이 있다. 복합재료를 적용하여 헬리컬 로터 블레이드를 설계하였으며, 유한요소 해석을 통하여 안정성을 검토하였다. 또한 4개의 헬리컬 로터를 지지하고 있는 풍력터빈 나무에 대하여 풍압, 로터의 회전 그리고 자중을 고려한 구조해석을 수행하여 설계 타당성을 검토 하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.78-83
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• 2021

We modeled the helical turbine and three modified helical turbines for the structure of the hydraulic turbine for discharge water energy harvesting. A structure that can reduce the load applied to the blade by placing a center plate is our basic concept. The shape was reduced to 1/5, fixed to a size of 240 mm in height and 247 mm in diameter, and modeled by changing the width and the angle of the hydraulic turbine blade. The pipe inner diameter of the simulation pipeline equipment is 309.5 mm, and the simulation section was 4 m in the entire section. The flow velocity was measured for two cases, 1.82 m/s and 2.51 m/s, with the parameters being the amount of power generation, hydraulic turbine's torque, and hydraulic turbine's rotation speed. The measurement results confirmed that the flow velocity at the center, which has no pipe surface resistance, has a great influence on the amount of power generation; therefore, the friction area of the turbine blade should be increased in the center area. In addition, if the center plate is placed on the helical turbine, durability can be improved as it reduces the stress on the blade.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.257-268
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• 2014

In this study, flow-driven rotor simulations with a given load are conducted to analyze the operational characteristics of a vertical-axis Darrieus turbine, specifically its self-starting capability and fluctuations in its torque as well as the RPM. These characteristics are typically observed in experiments, though they cannot be acquired in simulations with a given tip speed ratio (TSR). First, it is shown that a flow-driven rotor simulation with a two-dimensional (2D) turbine model obtains power coefficients with curves similar to those obtained in a simulation with a given TSR. 3D flow-driven rotor simulations with an optimal geometry then show that a helical-bladed turbine has the following prominent advantages over a straight-bladed turbine of the same size: an improvement of its self-starting capabilities and reduced fluctuations in its torque and RPM curves as well as an increase in its power coefficient from 33% to 42%. Therefore, it is clear that a flow-driven rotor simulation provides more information for the design of a Darrieus turbine than a simulation with a given TSR before experiments.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.301-307
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• 2009

국내에서는 조류속이 강한 곳이 다수 존재하여 조류발전 가능성이 높다. 이러한 조류발전은 유속이 빠른 곳에 터빈과 발전기를 설치하여 해수의 운동에너지로부터 전기를 생산하는 발전방식이다. 본 연구에서는 조류발전 시스템에 사용되는 헬리컬 터빈의 효율과 특성치 등을 현장실험을 바탕으로 파악하고자 하였다. 현장실험을 위하여 지름 2.2 m, 높이 2.5 m의 터빈을 제작하고, 울돌목 협수로의 한 쪽 면에 쟈켓구조물을 설치하여 터빈에 대한 실험을 실시하였다. 3-blade 헬리컬 터빈은 1.5 m/s와 2.1 m/s 사이의 유속에서 30 %정도의 효율을,6-blade 터빈은 25 %정도의 효율을 나타내었으며, 이러한 효율은 유속의 변화에 따라 변함없이 거의 일정한 수준을 나타내었다. 3-blade 터빈의 TSR은 2.4정도인 것으로 파악되었고, 6-blade 터빈의 TSR은 1.9정도로 관찰되었다. 이러한 터빈들의 TSR은 유속이 1.5 m/s에서 2.1 m/s로 변화해도 거의 일정하게 측정되었다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.330-335
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 설계된 100 W급 헬리컬 수직축 풍력발전기의 공기 역학적 출력 및 유동 특성에 관하여 연구하였다. 이를 위하여 100 W급 헬리컬 수직축 풍력발전기 로터를 설계하였고 풍동 시험과 동일한 환경을 적용한 3차원 전산유동해석을 수행하였다. 전산유동해석 결과를 통하여 공기 역학적 출력과 헬리컬 유동 특성을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 실제 크기의 수직축 풍력발전기에 대한 풍동 시험을 수행하여 전산유동해석에서 예측한 공기역학적 출력과 비교 검증하여 전산유동해석 기법의 타당성을 확인하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.517-520
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• 2006

The Korean peninsula has a number of coastal sites where the rhythmic rising and lowering of water surface due to tides results in strong tidal current. The kinetic energy of these currents can be efficiently exploited by use of tidal current turbines. The pilot tidal current power plant is to be constructed at the Uldolmok narrow channel between J info and Haenam, Our ins next Year, and extensive coastal engineer ing research works have been carried out. This paper describes and analyzes some observation results of field test about the efficiency of Helical turbine for tidal current power plant. The efficiency of turbine, which is diameter 2.2m and height 2.5m, is evaluated meximum RPM, torque, and current velocity. The tested turbines had the maximum efficiencies of the bounds of 25 to 35% in the current velocity range between 1.4 and 2.6 m/s. This result shows that the pilot tidal current power plant needs three helical turbines with diameter 3.0m and height 3.6m to produce electric power 500kW.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.76-85
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• 2008

In order to extract micro hydropower in the very low specific speed range, a Positive Displacement Turbine (PDT) was proposed and steady performance was determined experimentally. However, the suppression of large pressure pulsation is inevitable for practical application of PDT. The objective of the present study is to reveal the mechanism and the characteristics of pressure pulsation in PDT by use of CFD and to suppress the pressure pulsation. Unsteady CFD analysis has revealed that large pressure pulsation is caused by large variation of rotational speed of the following rotor, while the driving rotor, which is output rotor, keeps constant speed. Here is newly proposed a 4-lobe helical type rotor which can reduce the pressure pulsation drastically and the performance prediction of new PDT is determined.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2006

The inherent problem of a Darrieus wind turbine is its inability to self-start. Usually, a motor is used to provide angular acceleration until lift forces are produced in the airfoil blades or up until the turbine can already sustain its speed on its own. This paper describes a method of improving the self-starting of an H-type Darrieus vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) by incorporating a helical Savonius turbine thus utilizing a drag-lift combination. The effect of each turbine in the combination relative to each other is investigated by testing a prototype windmill consisting of three NACA 0015 airfoil blades combined with a Savonius rotor with a helix angle of 180 degrees and whose swept area equals 30% of the entire turbine.