• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.485-492
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• 2021

The wind turbines with a rated capacity of 50kW or less are generally considered as small class. Small wind turbines are an attractive alternative for off-grid power system and electric home appliances, both as stand-alone application and in combination with other energy technologies such as energy storage system, photovoltaic, small hydro or diesel engines. The research objective is to develop the 50kW scale wind turbine blades in ways that resemble as closely as possible with the construction and methods of utility scale turbine blade manufacturing. The mold process based on wooden form is employed to create a hollow, multi-piece, lightweight design using carbon fiber and fiberglass with an epoxy based resin. A hand layup prototyping method is developed using high density foam molds that allows short cycle time between design iterations of aerodynamic platforms. A production process of five blades is manufactured and key components of the blade are tested by IEC 61400-23 to verify the appropriateness of the design. Also, wind system with developed blades is tested by IEC 61400-12 to verify the performance characteristics. The results of blade and turbine system test showed the available design conditions for commercial operation.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.309-319
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• 2003

The main purpose of this paper is to present a simulation model for assessing the impacts of a variable speed wind turbine (VSWT) on the distribution network and perform a simulation analysis of volt-age profiles and harmonics along the wind turbine installed feeder using the presented model. The modeled wind energy conversion system consists of a fixed pitch wind turbine and a permanent-magnet synchronous generator, in which a controllable power electronics inverter performs variable speed operation and reactive power output control. Impact analysis on voltage profiles and harmonics of a VSWT-installed distribution feeder is addressed and simulated in terms of steady state and dynamic behaviors. Various capacities and different modes of variable speed wind turbines are simulated and investigated. Case studies demonstrate how feeder voltages are influenced by capacity and control modes of wind turbines and changes in wind speed under various network conditions, and show harmonic impacts on the feeder. Modeling and simulation analysis is based on PSCAD/EMTDC a software package.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.13-19
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• 2014

To develop a wind farm in a mountainous terrain like Korea, it is generally more advantageous to install wind turbines along a mountain ridge where has relatively better wind resource because that is open in all directions and free from shielding by the surrounding topography. In this study, the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) v4.1 3 arc-second resolution digital elevation database and the geomorphometric characterization software LandSerf v2.3 are used to extract ridge lines for assessing a wind farm siting in mountainous terrain. The effectiveness of wind farm siting along a ridge line is confirmed that the most of wind turbines in the Gangwon, Taegisan, and Maebongsan wind farms in Korea's mountainous terrain are placed along the primary and secondary ridge lines where wind resource is relatively outstanding.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2014.03a
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• pp.654-658
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• 2014

풍력발전은 재생에너지로써 유망한 대체 에너지원으로 각광받고 있으며, 국내에서는 이미 영덕, 영양 등의 풍력단지가 가동 중에 있다. 그러나 장기간 사용되어온 터빈이 반 이상이며, 그 중에서도 바람의 영향을 많이 받는 블레이드는 끝단 Tip이 벌어지는 파손이 발생하곤 한다. Blade Field의 유지보수를 통해 수명연장이 가능하나, 형상변화로 공력특성에 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 연구에서는 MEXICO 터빈용 블레이드의 Tip부분에 대해서 EDISON을 활용하여, 수리로 인해 변경된 Blade의 공력특성 변화를 분석하였다. 형상변경은 상용 프로그램 Pontwise로 작업했으며, 익형 주위의 유동을 2D비압축성 유동으로 가정하고 EDISON CFD의 2D_Incomp-2.1_P solver를 수치해석을 수행하였다.

• Journal of Wind Energy
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.61-67
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• 2011

In the present study, numerical unsteady simulations of the NREL Phase VI wind turbine in downwind operation conditions were conducted to investigate rotor-tower interaction. The calculations were performed using an unstructured mesh, incompressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes flow solver. To capture the unsteady effects associated with the tower shadow between the rotor blades and the tower, the wind turbine was modelled including the rotor, tower, hub, and nacelle. The present results generally showed good agreements with available experimental data. At the lowest wind speed, the pressure distribution was characterized by a complete collapse of the suction peak on the blade when the blade passes through the tower wake. It was found that unsteady effects play a significant role in the response of the blades.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.400-403
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• 2007

소형 풍력터빈 설계 시 고려해야 할 익형의 선택, 익형의 붙임각 및 Solidity 등이 터빈의 성능에 미치는 영향을 고찰하였다. 한 개의 익형에 대한 공력계수를 이용하여 수학적 모델링을 통하여 최적 붙임각을 예측하여 경향을 파악하였다. 받음각에 따른 익형의 공력특성을 CFD 기법으로 파악한 후 5개의 Blade를 갖는 Turbine의 성능을 익형의 붙임각에 따라 파악하여 최대 성능을 갖는 붙임각을 최종 산출하였다. 익형 선정시 받음각에 대한 양력/항력 곡선을 이동시키는 캠버 익형의 기능보다는 항력 대양력의 비(L/D) 가 최대인 익형을 선정하는 것이 더욱 중요하며, Blade수가 적을수록 Torque의 양은 증가하고 Blade가 6이상이변 효율이 급격히 감소함을 알 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.1025-1026
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• 2011

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.27-44
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• 2012

The offshore wind farm is increasingly attractive as one of future energy sources all over the world. In addition, the capacity of an offshore wind turbine gets larger and its physical characteristics are big and heavy. In this regard, a special port is necessary to assemble, store, and transport the offshore wind systems, supporting to form the offshore wind farms. Thus, this study aims to provide a policy maker which evaluation factors can significantly affect to the optimal site selection of a offshore wind port. For this, Fuzzy-AHP method is applied to capture the relative weights. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. Five criteria in level I was defined such as the accumulation factor, the regional factor, the economic factor, the location factor, and the consortium factor. Of these, the accumulation factor(37.4%), the location factor(34.2%), and the economic factor( 24.5%) were analyzed by major factors. In level II, three assessment items of each factor were selected so that total fifteen items were formed. To sum up, the site selection of offshore wind port should consider the density of the wind industry, cargo volume of securing the economic operation of terminals, the development degree of offshore wind related industry, and the proximity to the offshore wind farms. In other words, the construction of offshore wind port should be paid attention to considering not only the proximity to offshore wind farms but also the preference of turbine manufacturing companies.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.58.1-58.1
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• 2011

In this paper, the purpose is a study on structural analysis for offshore wind turbine using commercial code. Because offshore wind turbine is subjected to great wind and wave force, it is necessary to analyse the dynamics and minimize the response of wind turbine. The offshore wind turbine tower is modelled as a single degree of freedom and multi degree of freedom structure. It is assumed that the blades, nacelle are composed of concentrated masses.

• 전기의세계
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.3-9
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• 1992

동해안의 6개 예정입지 지점의 다년간 기상데이터를 분석한 결과 3개지점 정도의 유수한 후보지를 발견하였다. 특히 장기갑의 평균풍속은 제주도 월항지역 보다 더 우수한 결과를 얻었다. 이 지역에 설치할 수 있는 풍력터빈의 형식으로 수직축 Darrieus Type을 검토한 결과 무리가 없음을 알 수 있었다. 수직축 터빈은 풍속 6m/s이상이면 정격의 발전모드에 진입하니, 3개 지역의 분석결과 년4000시간 이상의 발전은 가능하리라 사료된다. 단위 풍력발전 용량은 향후 상세설계가 뒤따라야 하겠지만, 대략 150-200KW로 산정되며 년간 단위 기계에서 600-800Mwh의 전력을 얻을 수 있으리라 예상된다.