• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.552-558
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• 2011

A 50 kW class rotating body type wave energy converter consisted of two floating bodies and a PTO (Power Takeoff) unit is studied. As an wave energy extractor, the body is designed to have a VLCO (Variable Liquid-Column Oscillator) having a liquid filled U-tube with air chambers. Owing to the oscillation of the liquid in the U-tube caused by the air spring effect of the air chambers, the amplitude of response of the VLCO becomes significantly amplified for a target wave period. The PTO converts the rotational moment introduced from the relative motion of the hinged bodies to an hydraulic power by means of a cylinder. A high pressure accumulator, hydraulic motor and a generator are equipped in the PTO to convert the hydraulic power to electric power. A control law for adjusting the oscillation period of the VLCO is proposed for the efficient operation of the VLCO with various wave conditions. It is found that the effect of the air spring has an important role to play in making the oscillation of the VLCO match with the ocean wave. In this way, the wave energy converter equipped with the VLCO provides the most effective mode for extracting energy from the ocean wave.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.129-136
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• 2016

Floating offshore structures keep its position by a mooring system against various kind of environmental loadings. For this reason, a reliable design of the mooring system is a key factor for initial design stage of a floating structure. However, there exists possibility of mooring failure, even the system is designed with enough safety margin, due to the unexpected extreme environmental conditions or long-term fatigue loadings. The breaking of one of the mooring lines may change the tension level of the other mooring lines, which can potentially result in a progressive failure of the entire structure. In this study, time domain numerical simulation of 10MW class wind-wave hybrid platform was carried out with partially broken mooring line. Overall platform responses and variations of the mooring line tension were numerically evaluated.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.103-111
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• 2014

The wave power, extracted from a circular array of small power buoys, is investigated under the potential theory. It is assumed that the buoy's radius, the draft, and the separation distance are much smaller than the water depth, the wave length, and the radius of a circular deployment area. The boundary value problem involving the macro-scale boundary condition on the mean surface covered by buoys is solved using the eigenfunction expansion method. The capture width, which is defined as the ratio of the extracted power to the wave power per unit length of the incident wave crest, is assessed for various combinations of packing ratio, radius of a circular array, and PTO damping coefficient. It is found that the circular array deployment is more effective in the viewpoint of efficiency than the single large buoy of the same total displaced volume.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.655-662
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• 2013

Recently, by the problems owing to utilization of fossil fuel, various green energies receive attention. Wind, the impetus for the wind power generation as one of the green energies, is observed higher quality value in the offshore than onshore. Also, the development of offshore wind turbines is in the spotlight as alternative to solve the problems of onshore wind farm such as securing sites, noise, and electromagnetic waves, and to get efficient wind energy. Therefore, the many researches on offshore wind energy have been carried out. As wind towers are advanced to ocean, offshore wind towers have been enlarged. Thus, stability is required to endure wind force and wave force. In this study, the external forces act on the foundation in multi-layered are calculated by p-y relation.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.189-202
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• 2012

An Oscillating Water Column (OWC) wave generation system uses the air flow induced by the vertical motion of water column in the air chamber as a driving force of turbine. It is well known that OWC is one of the most efficient devices to harness wave power. This study estimated the air flow velocity from the time variation of the water level fluctuation in the air chamber under regular wave conditions using 3-dimensional numerical irregular wave tank (3D-NIT) model that can simulate the 3-dimensional irregular wave field. The applicability of the 3D-NIT model was validated by comparing numerically predicted air flow velocities with hydraulic experimental results. In addition, the characteristics of air flow frequency spectrum variation due to the incident frequency spectrum change, and the variations of frequency spectrum and wave reflection due to the existence of converter inside the air chamber were discussed. It is found that the phase difference exists in between the air flow velocity and the water level fluctuation inside the air chamber, and the peak frequency of the spectrum in water level fluctuation is amplified by the resonance in the air chamber.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.203-216
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• 2021

Analyzing various wave interactions with oscillating wave surge converters (OWSC) is essential because they must be operated efficiently under a wide range of wave conditions and designed to extract optimal wave energy. In the conceptual design and development stage of OWSC, numerical analysis can be a good alternative as a design tool. This study performed a numerical analysis on the behavioral characteristics of the inverted triangle flap against the incident waves using open source CFD to examine the essential behavioral attributes of OWSC. Specifically, the behavioral characteristics of the structure were studied by calculating the free water surface displacement and the flap rotation angle near the inverted triangular flap according to the change of the period under the regular wave conditions. By comparing and examining the numerical analysis results with the hydraulic model experiments, the validity of the analysis performed and the applicability in analyzing the wave-structure interactions related to OWSC was verified. The numerical analysis result confirmed that the hydrodynamic behavior characteristic due to the interactions of the wave and the inverted triangle flap was well reproduced.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

A numerical investigation was performed to determine the effect of airfoil on the optimum flap height using NACA0015 Wells turbine. The five double flaps which have 0.5% difference were selected. A Navier-Stokes code, CFX-TASCflow, was used to calculate the flow field of the Wells turbine. The basic feature of the Wells turbine is that even though the cyclic airflow produces oscillating axial forces on the airfoil blades, the tangential force on the rotor is always in the same direction. Geometry used to define the three dimension numerical grid is based upon that of an experimental test rig. This paper tries to disign the double flap of Wells turbine with the numerical analysis.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.549-552
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• 2002

The objective of this study is to clarify the detailed performances of the impulse type radial turbine and to present an optimum configuration of the turbine. The impulse type radial turbine has been manufactured and investigated experimentally under steady and sinusoidally oscillating flow conditions by model testing. Then, the starting characteristics under sinusoidally flow conditions have been evaluated by a numerical simulation using a quasi-steady analysis. As a result, the running and starting characteristics of the impulse type radial turbine for wave energy conversion have been clarified. Furthermore, the recommended configuration is presented, especially for setting angles of inner and outer guide vanes.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 1985

인류에 필수불가경한 에너지는, 석유, 석탄과 같은 화석연료에 의한 염에너지와 수력, 조력, 파력, 풍력 등의 비열에너지가 있으나, 에너지이용량중 열에너지가 절대적 우위를 점하고 있다. 열에너 지는 전기한 화석연료 뿐만 아니라, 태양집, 태양열발전소와 같은 태양열에너지의 직접이용, 핵에 너지의 열에너지전환, 지열, 해수의 온도차이용등, 열에너지는 다량하면서 막대한 에너지량을 보 유하고 있는 실정이지만, ㅈ로 석유자원에 의존하여 온 것이 현상이다. 그러나, 1970년대 초기에 엄습한 석유파동이래, 세계적으로 에너지위기감에 사로잡혀, 세계각국은 탈석유화에 따른 에너지 의 다양화와 에너지절약이 감소되게 되었다. 연료절약에 관하여 말하면, 에너지이요의 효율화를 적극적으로 도모함에 있어서 열에너지이용에 관한 평가방법에 새로운 검토가 가해져서, 더 합 리적인 평가방법의 확립이 필요하게 되었다. 이를 위해서는 종래의 열역학 제1법칙에 의한 열 에너지의 양적평가 뿐만 아니라, 열역학 제2법칙에 의한 질적평가의 중요성이 인식되어, 유효에 너지(available energy) 또는 엑세르기(Exergie)의 개념이 위상되고 있다. 물론 이 개념을 적용 하여 열역학 제2법칙에 의한 해석에 따른 일정산(heat balance)에 있어서 전혀 새로운 결과가 얻어지는 것은 아니지만, 지금까지는 열정산에 있어서 열역학 제1법칙에 의한 평가방법만이 강 조되어, 열역학 제2법칙에 의한 평가방법은 거의 도외시되어온 것이 실정이며, 우리나라에서 발 간되는 열역학에 관한 도서에서도 이에 관한 검토 내용이 거의 찾아볼수 없거나, 가령 언급된 것이 있다 하더라도 그 내용이 간략하여 그 중요성이 경시되어온 것이 사실이다. 그러나 열역학 제2법칙에 의한 에너지정산에 의하여, 제1법칙에 의한 것보다 열에너지의 합리적이고 또한 유 효한 과학적평가가 가능하게 되어, 장치나 기기의 개선에 구체적이면서 합리적인 지침이 주어 지게 된다. 그리하여 이들 개념과 방법의 소개가 필요하다고 생각되어, 지금부터 우리들이 잘 아는 용어를 사용하여 해설을 서로 하기로 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.688-695
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• 2017

This paper deals with characteristics analysis of a permanent magnet (PM) linear generator using analytical methods for wave energy harvesting. The wave energy is carried out from the movement of a yo-yo system. A linear generator using permanent magnets to generate a magnetic force itself does not require a separate power supply and has the advantage of simple maintenance. In addition to the use of a rare earth, a permanent magnet having a high-energy density can be miniaturized and lightweight, and can obtain high energy-conversion efficiency. We derived magnetic field solutions produced by the permanent magnet and armature reaction based on 2D polar coordinates and magnetic vector potential. Induced voltage is obtained via arbitrary sinusoidal input. In addition, electrical parameters are obtained, such as back-EMF constant, resistance, and self- and mutual-winding inductances. The space harmonic method used in this paper is confirmed by comparing it with finite element method (FEM) results. These facilitate the characterization of the PM-type linear generator and provide a basis for comparative studies, design optimization, and machine dynamic modeling.