유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
- 유체기계공업학회 2003년도 유체기계 연구개발 발표회 논문집
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- Pages.3-12
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- 2003
Present State of Self-Rectifying Air Turbines for Wave Energy Conversion
- Setoguchi, Toshiaki (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saga University) ;
- Takao, Manabu (Department of Control Engineering, Matsue National College of Technology)
- 발행 : 2003.12.05
초록
This paper reviews the present state of the art on the self-rectifying air turbines, which could be used for wave energy conversion. The overall performances of the turbines under irregular wave conditions, which typically occur in the sea, have been evaluated numerically and compared from the viewpoints of the starting and running characteristics. The types of turbine included in the paper are as follows: (a) Wells turbine with guide vanes (WTGV); (b) turbine with self-pitch-controlled blades (TSCB); (c) biplane Wells turbine with guide vanes (BWGV); (d) impulse turbine with self-pitch-controlled guide vanes (ISGV) and (e) impulse turbine with fixed guide vanes (IFGV). As a result, under irregular wave conditions it is found that the running and starting characteristics of the impulse type turbines could be superior to those of the Wells turbine. Moreover, the authors have explained the mechanism of hysteretic behavior of the Wells turbine and the necessity of links for improvement of the performance of ISGV.