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http://dx.doi.org/10.7846/JKOSMEE.2016.19.2.151

Study on Performance Variation According to the Arrangements of Adjacent Vertical-Axis Turbines for Tidal Current Energy Conversion  

Lee, Jeong-Ki (Div. of Naval Architecture & Ocean Systems Engineering, Korea Maritime & Ocean University)
Hyun, Beom-Soo (Div. of Naval Architecture & Ocean Systems Engineering, Korea Maritime & Ocean University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy / v.19, no.2, 2016 , pp. 151-158 More about this Journal
Abstract
Tidal farm is a multi-arrayed turbine system for utilizing tidal stream energy. For horizontal-axis turbine(HAT) system, it is recommended that each unit has to be deployed far apart in order to avoid hydrodynamic interference among turbines, as proposed by the European Marine Energy Centre(EMEC). But there is no rule for the arrangement of vertical-axis turbine(VAT) yet. Moreover it has been reported that a proper arrangement of adjacent turbines can enhance the overall efficiency even greater than an arrangement without mutual interference effect. This paper suggests the layout of VATs showing the better performances, which turned out to be quite different from HATs' arrangement. Numerical calculations were performed to investigate the performance variation in terms of the rotational direction as well as the distance between turbines. It has been shown that the best combination of rotational direction and distance between turbines can increase its performance higher about 9.2% than that of two independently operated turbines. It is likely that such improvement is due to the increased velocity between adjacent turbines. For diagonally arranged turbines, the maximum normalized mean power coefficient was obtained to be higher about 5.6% than that of two independent turbines. It is expected that the present results can be utilized for conceptual design of tidal farm to harness the tidal stream energy.
Keywords
Vertical-axis turbine; Tidal farm; Multi-arrayed turbine; Interaction; Rotational direction;
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