• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.166.1-166.1
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• 2011

The rotor design is fundamental to the performance and dynamic response of the Counter-rotating marine tidal current turbine. The wind industry has seen significant advancement single rotor blade technology, offering considerable knowledge and making it easy to transfer to tidal stream energy converters. In this paper, 3D flow and performance an alysis on a 100 kW counter-rotating marine current turbine blade was carried out by using the 3-D Navier-Stokes commercial solver(ANSYS CFX-11.0) to provide more efficient design techniques to design engineers. The front and rear rotor diameter is 8m and the rotating speed is 24.72rpm. Hexahedral meshing was generated by ICEM-CFD to achieve better quality of results. The rated power and its approaching stream velocity for design are 100 kW and 2 m/s respectively. The pressure distribution on the blade's suction side tells us that the pressure becomes low at the leading edge of the airfoil as it moves from the hub to the tip.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2017

Various approaches have been tried in an effort to improve the power performance of a flapping tidal stream turbine after it was introduced as an alternative to conventional rotary turbines. Among the different approaches, researches on mimicking the morphology and behavior of animals have been conducted. In this study, we utilized a flapper to mimic the multi-joint pectoral fin of a Manta-ray and investigated its effect on power generation. Experiments were conducted by a dual flapping apparatus with rigid and flexible flappers in a towing tank facility. First, in order to determine the conditions that can produce high power generation, the performances of the dual rigid flappers were compared when input arm angles and frequencies are changed, and the two conditions $40^{\circ}$, 0.2 Hz and $40^{\circ}$, 0.3 Hz for the input arm angle, frequency were selected. When the mimicked flexible flapper was used instead of the front rigid flapper and the rear one, the power was improved by an average of 22% and 38% in the experimental conditions, respectively. Moreover, it was recognized from the apparent camber observed during the experiment that the flexible flapper had been successfully applied. If the feasibility of the Manta-Ray mimicked flapper is improved through subsequent researches, the flapping tidal turbine can be a viable alternative to rotary turbines in the near future.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.142-149
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• 2012

다양한 축척을 갖는 조류발전용 수직축 터빈의 유속과 직경의 변화가 터빈의 유체공학적 효율에 미치는 영향을 수치적으로 연구하였다. 수치해석은 직경 산정식을 사용하여 도출된 동일형상의 다양한 치수의 기준터빈에 대하여 수행되었으며 유속과 직경 변화에 따른 효율의 차이에 대해 알아보았다. 해석결과 터빈의 효율은 레이놀즈 수 변화에 따라 체계적으로 증가하는 것을 확인하였으며, 이로부터 크기가 다른 동일형상의 터빈의 성능은 TSR(Tip Speed Ratio)과 레이놀즈수(Reynolds number)만의 함수로 표시할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이상의 수치해석 결과를 이용하여 수직축 터빈 초기설계단계에서 필요한 간편한 용량산정기법을 제안하고 유속, 직경, 터빈회전수 간의 상호관계를 다양한 관점에서 도표화 하였다. 본 연구는 터빈용량 10 kW~300 kW 사이의 수직축 터빈 초기설계 시에 효과적으로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2006년 창립20주년기념 정기학술대회 및 국제워크샵
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• pp.80-90
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• 2006

The influence of waves on the dynamic properties of bending moments at the root of blades of tidal stream vertical axis rotors is reported. Blade theory for wind turbine is combined with linear wave theory and used to analyse this influence. Experiments were carried out to validate the simulation and the comparison shows the usefulness of the theory in predicting the bending moments. The mathematical model is then used to study the importance of waves for the fatigue design of the blade-hub connection.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.241-255
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• 2012

Three types of 100 kW-class tidal stream turbines are proposed and their performance is studied both numerically and experimentally. Following a wind turbine design procedure, a base blade is derived and two additional blades are newly designed focusing more on efficiency and cavitation. For the three designed turbines, a CFD is performed by using FLUENT. The calculations predict that the newly designed turbines perform better than the base turbine and the tip vortex can be reduced with additional efficiency increase by adopting a tip rake. The performance of the turbines is tested in a towing tank with 700 mm models. The scale problem is carefully investigated and the measurements are compared with the CFD results. All the prediction from the CFD is supported by the model experiment with some quantitative discrepancy. The maximum efficiencies are 0.49 (CFD) and 0.45 (experiment) at TSR 5.17 for the turbine with a tip rake.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2011

해양에너지는 아직 개발되지 않은 가장 유망한 재생 및 청정에너지 자원 중 하나이다. 특히 우리나라는 세계적으로 보기 드문 조류발전의 적지이며, 이를 이용하기 위해서는 각 해역에 적합한 조류에너지 변환 장치의 개발이 매우 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 조류발전 방식 중 수평축 로터 블레이드의 최적형상 설계 및 성능평가를 목적으로 날개 끝 손실 모델을 포함하는 날개요소 운동량이론을 적용한 조류터빈 설계기법을 제안하고, 100 kW급 로터 블레이드를 설계하였다. 또한 블레이드 국부위치에서 주속비에 따른 Prandtl의 날개 끝 손실 변화를 비교하였으며, 정격 날개 끝 속도비에서 NACA63812를 사용하여 설계된 로터 블레이드의 동력계수는 0.49로 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.293-301
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• 2020

Blades of tidal stream turbines have to sustain many different loads during operation in the underwater environment, so securing their structural safety is a key issue. In this study, we focused on periodic loads due to wave orbital motion and propose a load reduction method with a blade design. The flap of an airplane wing is a well-known structure designed to increase lift, and it can also change the load distribution on the wing through deflection. For this reason, we adopted a passive flap structure for the load reduction and investigated its effectiveness by an analytical method based on the blade element moment theory. Flap torsional stiffness required for the design of the passive flap can be obtained by calculating the flap moment based on the analytic method. Comparison between a flapped and a fixed blade showed the effect of the flap on load reduction in a high amplitude wave condition.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.151-158
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• 2016

조류발전단지는 유망한 해역에 터빈을 복수로 다배열하여 발전하는 시스템을 말한다. 이러한 단지는 각 터빈이 최대 효율로 작동하고, 최대 발전량을 얻을 수 있도록 설계되어야 하는데, 이를 위해서는 터빈 사이의 간섭으로 인한 성능 저하가 발생하지 않도록 터빈은 일정 거리를 두고 배치되어야 한다. 수평축 터빈의 경우 EMEC(European Marine Energy Centre)에서 배치거리를 제안하고 있으나, 수직축 터빈은 그러한 규정이 제안된 바 없다. 여러 연구 결과들에 따르면 수직축 터빈이 인접할 경우 성능의 향상까지 도모될 수 있으므로, 그 배치는 수평축 터빈보다 더욱 중요하게 검토될 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 수직축 터빈에 대하여 수평축 터빈과 같이 일정 거리를 두고 배치하는 것과 터빈을 인접하도록 배치하는 것과의 차이를 조사하였다. 이를 위해 두 터빈간의 거리와 회전방향을 파라메터로 하여 그에 따른 성능 차이를 수치해석적으로 연구하였고, 그 이유를 파악하고자 하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 가장 적절한 수치해석 영역과 조건을 설정할 수 있었으며, 인접한 두 터빈이 각각 반시계-시계방향으로 회전하는 것이 단독 터빈 2기 대비 약 9.2%의 성능향상이 예측되었다. 터빈이 대각으로 배치된 경우는 최대 약 5.6%정도 성능이 향상됨을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 수직축 터빈을 이용한 조류발전단지를 설계시 유용한 정보가 될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.36-40
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• 2010

Tidal current power system is the energy converter which converts the kinetic energy of tidal stream into electric energy. The performance of the rotor which initially converts the energy is determined by various design factors and it should be optimized by the ocean environment of the field. Flow direction changes due to rise and fall of the tides, but horizontal axis turbine is very sensitive to direction of flow. To investigate the rotor performance considering the interaction problems with incidence angle of flow, series of experiments have been conducted. The results and findings are summarized in the paper.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2016

An experimental investigation was carried out to improve the performance of a counter-rotating type horizontal-axis tidal stream power unit. Front and rear blades were designed separately based on modified blade element momentum (BEM) theory, and their performances at different conditions of blade tip speed ratio were measured in a wind tunnel. Three different groups of blades were designed successively, and the results showed that Group3 possessed the highest power coefficient of 0.44 and was the most satisfactory model. This experiment shows that properly increasing diameter and reducing chord length will benefit the performance of the blade.