• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.2272-2278
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• 2015

Recently the importance of renewable energy is stood out regarding to the international concern about global environmental issues. Wind power is beginning to receive attention as one of renewable energy, and world-wide researches about wind power are being carried out. In the wind power system, tower structure plays an important roles for continuous and stable generation of electricity. Researchers use various analytical models to research and develop about tower structures. In this study, the effects of natural frequencies of various wind turbine tower models have been analyzed. It is possible to simplify the detailed parts of models by using modified tower unit weight since the results of 1st natural frequency show that the difference is only 0.14%. Since the difference in natural frequency is greater than 10%, according to the boundary condition, the simple fix end support is not appropriate to represent the real structure of the tower. It is expected that the result of this study may be utilized to establish the criterion about appropriate modelling method.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.115-120
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• 2014

In this study, a module is developed for modeling and analyzing dynamic behavior of a wind turbine using RecurDyn, which is a commercial multi-body dynamics software developed by FunctionBay, Inc. The wind turbine consists of tower, nacelle, hub and blades. Tower and blades are regarded as flexible bodies for considering elastic effect using beam theory and spring force. In this paper, a constant speed wind was assumed and aerodynamic force is modeled using BEM theory. Dynamic analysis applying this aerodynamic force is carried out. To verify the validity of analysis results, these results are compared to those of GH-Bladed which is a commercial software for analyzing wind turbine system distributed by Garrad Hassan.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.38 no.7
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• pp.29-38
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• 2009

지난 20년간 급속한 발전을 통하여 회전 블레이드의 직경이 126 m, 나셀까지의 높이가 약 130 m에 이르는 6,000 kW의 용량을 가지는 풍력발전기가 개발되었다. 세계적으로 풍력발전의 필요성과 중요성이 인식되어 2008년 현재 약 120,000 MW의 설치 용량을 기록하고 있다. 풍력터빈(wind turbine)과 그 부품의 기계적인 성능평가의 종류와 방법은 많은 사람들의 관심인 것으로 판단한다. 우선 풍력터빈을 구성하는 주요 핵심부품은 블레이드, 증속장치, 발전기 등이며, 세부 구성 부품으로 허브, 핏치와 요베어링, 주축베어링, 타워 등이 있다. 주요핵심 부품인 블레이드, 증속기, 발전기 등의 성능평가가 중요한 이슈이다. 또한 모든 구성품을 조립하여 초기의 설계사양에 따라서 제조되고 최종성능이 발휘되는지 여부를 현장시험을 통하여 성능평가과정을 거치게 되는데 이 과정은 풍력터빈의 성능평가라고 하며 주요 평가대상은 출력성능(power performance), 소음(noise), 하중(load), 전력품질(power quality) 등 4가지 항목을 집중적으로 측정하여 개발된 풍력터빈의 전반적인 성능을 평가하게 된다. 본 투고에서는 핵심부품인 블레이드, 증속기, 발전기에 대한 시험기술과 풍력터빈의 성능평가 항목인 4개 측정 항목에 대하여 기술하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.721-727
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• 2015

The mechanical components for wind turbines are mainly manufactured using open-die forging. This research introduces an advanced forging method to produce the door frame of the tubular wind turbine tower. The advantages of this new forging method are an increase in the raw material utilization ratio and a reduction in energy cost. In the conventional method, the door frame is hot forged with a hydraulic press and amounts of material are machined out because of the shape difference between the forged and final machine products. The proposed forging method is composed of hot forging and ring rolling processes to increase the material utilization ratio. The effectiveness of this new forging method is deeply related to the ring rolled blank dimension before the final forging. To get the optimal ring rolled blank, forged shape prediction using the finite element analysis method was applied. The forged dimensions produced by the new forging method were verified through the first article production.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.187-187
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• 2010

풍력을 이용한 풍력발전기의 전력변환 시스템을 연구개발하기 위해서는 바람의 특성을 실내에서 구현할 수 있는 모의시험장치인 시뮬레이터가 요구된다. 모의시험장치는 바람을 받아 회전하는 블레이드 대신 풍속 값을 입력하여 전동기가 발전기에 토오크(torque)를 공급하게 된다. POSTECH 풍력에너지연구소는 2003년 750kW급 KBP-750D 풍력발전기용 모의시험장치에 이어, 2007년 2MW Gearless형 풍력발전기(KBP-2000M)의 400:1 축소모델인 5.83kW 모의시험 장치를 제작 완료하였다. (주)플라스포사는 모의시험장치를 이용하여 고효율의 전력변환장치 설계와 인버터 시스템 제어 알고리즘을 개발하였고, (주)유니슨은 2MW 풍력발전기용 통합연동제어 시스템을 제작 완료하여 2009년부터 대관령 실증단지에 초도품을 설치하고 실증운영 중에 있다. 본 논문은 대관령 실증단지에서 실시한 2MW 풍력시스템 실증과정에서 획득한 풍향과 풍속 데이터를 시각적으로 쉽게 보고 이해할 수 있도록 3D모델 처리방안을 적용하여 모의시험 장치에 구현한 내용이다. 풍력발전기 개발은 현재 대형화 추세에 있으며 연구개발 단계에서 풍력발전기의 발전 및 제어부분의 기능적 안정성 확보와 효율성 증대를 위한 적절한 시험은 필수적이다. 그러나 풍력발전기의 특성상 타워를 건설하고 회전자 블레이드를 사용하여 시험한다는 것은 설치 공간과 비용의 제약이 따른다. KBP-2000M (2MW) 모의시험장치는 풍력발전기와 같은 대형장비를 연구 개발하는데 필수적이며, 실증을 통해 획득한 Data를 적용함으로서 재품의 문제점을 찾아내고 성능향상을 도모하는데 필요하다. 실증 Data를 시각적으로 3D로 표현함으로서 현장의 풍속/풍향 변화를 사실감 있게 느끼게 되었다. 앞으로도 풍력발전기를 연구개발하거나 성능향상을 위해서는 적절한 제어와 안전을 위한 연동장치를 갖춘 스케일 다운된 모의시험장치 구축이 요구될 것이다. 풍력발전기의 실증과정에서 획득한 데이터를 모의시험장치에 적용(Feedback)하여 지속적인 성능향상을 높여나갈 것이다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.93-100
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• 2022

The collision behaviors of the tripod and jacket structures, which are considered as support structures for offshore wind towers at the Southwest sea of Korea, were compared by nonlinear dynamic analysis. These structures, designed for the 3 MW capacity of the wind towers, were modeled using shell elements with nonlinear behaviors, and the tower structure including the nacelle, was modeled by beam and mass elements with elastic materials. The mass of the tripod structure was approximately 1.66 times that of the jacket structure. A barge and commercial ship were modeled as the collision vessel. To consider the tidal conditions in the region, the collision levels were varied from -3.5 m to 3.5 m of the mean sea level. In addition, the collision behaviors were evaluated as increasing the minimum collision energy at the collision speed (=2.6 m/s) of each vessel by four times, respectively. Accordingly, the plastic energy dissipation ratios of the vessel were increased as the stiffness of collision region. The deformations in the wind tower occurred from vibration to collapse of conditions. The tripod structure demonstrated more collision resistance than the jacket structure. This is considered to be due to the concentrated centralized rigidity and amount of steel utilized.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.304-307
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• 2006

Recently, as the global warming by fossil fuels and the steep rise of the oil price become social issues, the interest for renewable energy producing system is increasing rapidly. Among these, the wind turbine is most highlighted because of its economic competitiveness. The tower is one of the main components of wind turbine, which occupying about 20% of overall turbine costs. The tower access door located to base part of the tower, is used to enter the tower. This is the main structural weak points because of door hole, weldment, etc. And so are the weldments between the cans and the flanges. In this study, for the top flange part of the tower, by FEM using ANSYS, we retrieved the maximum von Mises stress on that and carried out fatigue analysis using stresses at such weak points.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.50-60
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• 2010

With the development of wind industry, rated power of the wind turbine also increases gradually. Accordingly, size of the wind turbine tower is becoming larger. Tower base diameter of the 2MW wind turbine is about 4m. Larger tower is expected for 4MW or 5MW turbines. Due to limitation of transportation, new type of tower with smooth transportation and effective cost is needed. In this work, a hybrid tower consisting of steel and concrete is designed and analyzed. The optimum ratio of steel and concrete of the hybrid tower is calculated as well as the thickness of the concrete part. Different FE analysis including modal analysis, buckling analysis and static analysis are performed to check the design of hybrid tower comparing with the steel tower. Redesign is also expected after various analyses.

• The magazine of the Korean Society for Advanced Composite Structures
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.17-23
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• 2013

• Magazine of the Korea Institute for Structural Maintenance and Inspection
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.34-42
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• 2016