• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
• /
• v.35 no.6
• /
• pp.835-841
• /
• 2011

Wave power generation systems operated in the ocean, has been developed as large power and grid power connection systems in general. However, small wave power generation systems offer operational efficiency for the lighted (navigation aids) buoy. They simply adopts a full-wave rectification for charging battery (direct connection method). In this paper, a wave power controller based on a booster converter is developed by considering a characteristic of the wells turbine. Both direct connection and booster converter power controller is designed and tested to compare the characteristics. Experiments demonstrate that the output of the proposed controller has improved the characteristic of output power, when generator output voltage is low.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
• /
• 2009.06a
• /
• pp.502-503
• /
• 2009

해상용 브이 시스템은 안정적인 전력공급이 필요하다. 현재 해양시설물은 독립적인 전력 시스템을 위해 태양광 발전을 많이 이용한다. 태양광 발전은 많은 분야에 쓰이고 있지만, 해상에서는 육상에서 만큼의 효율을 갖지 못한다. 또한, 날씨가 흐리거나 밤에는 발전을 할 수 없기 때문에 발전량이 낮아지는 문제가 발생한다. 이를 보완하기 위해 파력 발전과 태양광 발전을 함께 사용하여 복합발전 시스템을 구축하였다. 본 논문은 복합 발전 시스템을 통해 해상용 브이 시스템에 안정적인 전력 시스템 구축을 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 실험을 통하여 태양광 발전과 파력 발전이 상호 보완적임을 증명하였고, 해양 시설물에 복합 발전 시스템의 적용 가능성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
• /
• v.29 no.4
• /
• pp.317-321
• /
• 2015

Many kinds of generation systems have been developed to use ocean energy. Among these, with the use of an oscillating water column (OWC) for power generation is attracting attention. The OWC-type wave power generation system converts wave energy into electricity by operating a generator turbine with the oscillating water level in a column of water. There are two ways to convert wave power into electricity using an OWC. One uses a cross-flow turbine using the water level inside the OWC. The other method uses the flow of air in a Wells turbine, which depends on the water level. An experiment was carried out using a 2-D wave tank in order to minimize the number of empirical tests. The design factors were taken from Koo et al. (2012) and the experimental environment assumed by free surface motion. This paper deals with characteristics of two types of wave energy conversion systems combine with a breakwater. One model uses an air-driven Wells turbine and a cross-flow water turbine. The other type uses a cross-flow water turbine. Wave energy converters with OWCs have mostly been studied using air-driven Wells turbines. The efficiency of the cross-flow turbine was about 15% higher than that of the other model, and the water level of the OWC internal chamber for the cross-flow water turbine and air-driven Wells turbine was less than about 40% lower than the one using only the cross-flow water turbine.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
• /
• v.33 no.6
• /
• pp.381-385
• /
• 2009

Generally power system of ocean facility composes a solar generation system.The power to be generated by the solar system is changed according to the amount of sunlight of weather conditions. Output power of solar system is decreased with weather condition such as cloudy day and rainy day. And the power shortage of the ocean facility can occur due to the lack of solar energy. To solve this problem, this paper proposes the power control system for solar-wave hybrid system Wave generation system consists of wells turbine and permanent magnet synchronous generator(PMSG). This propose system set the specific area and measures the solar generation power and wave generation power. As a result of experiment, the solar power is a more static source than wave power, but the wave power provides energy during periods of no sunshine. The power characteristic of propose hybrid system have been obtained high reliability than a solar generation system.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
• /
• v.38 no.1
• /
• pp.39-44
• /
• 2014

Due to the oil price is increasing continuously, active researches on sources of renewable energy has been invigorated. Above all, ocean energy has high-usability because of ocean current has high density and large quantity compared to the wind energy. In this paper, efficiency enhancement of the wave power generation was described through horizontal plate installation at the break water wave power generation system that converts the ocean energy into electricity. The power-conversion efficiency can be improved by horizontal plate installation at existing system, but there has been insufficient studies domestically. The purpose of this paper is to analyze about the effects of the horizontal plate installation on the breakwater wave power generation system by wave basin experiment and to propose a position of horizontal plate installation.