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Design of Wave Energy Extractor with a Linear Electric Generator -Part II. Linear Generator

선형발전기가 탑재된 파랑에너지 추출장치 설계 -II. 선형발전기

  • Cho, Il Hyoung (Department of Ocean System Engineering, Jeju National University) ;
  • Choi, Jang Young (Department of Electrical Engineering, Chungnam National University)
  • 조일형 (제주대학교 해양시스템공학과) ;
  • 최장영 (충남대학교 전기공학과)
  • Received : 2014.04.04
  • Accepted : 2014.05.16
  • Published : 2014.08.25

Abstract

Design procedure of LEG(Linear Electric Generator) is introduced by performing the time-domain analysis for the heaving motion of a floating buoy coupled with LEG. A vertical truncated buoy is selected as a point absorber and a double-sided Halbach array mover and cored slotless stator is adopted as a linear electric generator. LEG with a double-sided Halbach array mover and cored slotless stator is designed with the input data such as the heave motion velocity and wave exciting forces in time-domain. The validity of designed LEG is confirmed by performing generating-characteristic-analysis under the sinusoidal motion of a buoy, based on the numerical techniques such as FE(Finite Element) analysis. In particular, an ECM(Equivalent Circuit Method) is employed as the design tool for the prediction of generating characteristics under irregular wave conditions. Finally, we confirm that the ECM gives reasonable and fast results without sacrifice of accuracy.

선형발전기가 연결된 부이의 수직운동에 대한 시간영역 해석을 수행하여 얻은 시계열 자료를 가지고 선형발전기를 설계하고 전기에너지 출력특성 및 효율에 대해 살펴보았다. 1차 변환장치로 원통형 부이를 선택하였고, 2차 변환장치로 양측식 할박(Halbach) 배열 영구자석 가동자와 철심형 슬롯리스(Slotless) 고정자로 구성된 선형발전기를 사용하였다. 시간영역에서 부이의 수직운동 속도와 파랑하중을 입력자료로 직선형 영구자석 발전기가 설계되었고, 설계된 발전기는 규칙파 조건에서 유한요소 해석법을 적용하여 발전특성해석을 수행함으로써, 그 타당성이 입증되었다. 또한 불규칙파 조건에서 합리적이고 빠른 해석을 위해, 등가회로법을 적용하여 발전특성 해석을 수행하였는데, 그 결과 역시 매우 타당함을 확인하였다.

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