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Hydraulic Model Test of a Floating Wave Energy Converter with a Cross-flow Turbine

  • Kim, Sangyoon;Kim, Byungha;Wata, Joji;Lee, Young-Ho
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.222-228
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    • 2016
  • Almost 70% of the earth is covered by the ocean. Extracting the power available in the ocean using a wave energy converter has been seen to be eco-friendly and renewable. This study focuses on developing a method for analyzing a wave energy device that uses a cross-flow turbine. The motion of the ocean wave causes an internal bi-directional flow of water and the cross-flow turbine is able to rotate in one direction. This device is considered of double-hull structure, and because of this structure, sea water does not come into contact with theturbine. Due to this, the problem of befouling on the turbine is avoided. This study shows specific relationship for wave length and several motions.

What is Missing from Korea's New Regional Development Policy - An Overseas Case Studies Toward an Eco-Oriented Society - (자원순환적 지역개발의 해외 벤치마킹사례 연구)

  • Moon, Seogwoong
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.355-386
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    • 2006
  • This paper analyses recent regional development policies being carried out in Japan and the U.S. Such policies are formed on the sustainability principle aiming at the realization of circula-flow economy and zero waste society. The study here illuminates Japan's Eco-town project and three cases of eco-industrial developments in Minnesota. Such projects have gone from improving industry competitiveness through constructing clean production systems on the company level to improving national competitiveness through constructing a 'circular society' on the government level. Japan included the realization of a 'circular society' as its government's top agenda because it recognized that environmental pollution stems from the inefficient use of natural resources. Eco-town project is a regional development policy specifically reflecting such recognition. The eco-efficiency based city development approaches in Minnesota are but small examples of the new wave in regional development in the developed countries. We need to go beyond emphasizing eco-friendly and ethical management to just the companies. The government itself needs to design national policies based on environmental sustainability.

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The Hydraulic Characteristics of a Submerged Breakwater Covered with Multi-Function Blocks (기능성블록을 이용한 잠제의 수리학적 특성)

  • Sohn, Byung-Kyu
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.47-52
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents the design of a submerged breakwater, which functions as an eco-structure in a marine environment. Newly patented blocks were used in the submerged breakwater to both make it stable and provide an inhabitable space for fish. To investigate the wave transmission of the proposed submerged breakwater, parametric studies were conducted through two-dimensional hydraulic tests, which were carried out at the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) in South Korea. Those parameters are relative crest width (B/L), wave steepness (H/L), relative crest depth (hB/H), and submerged breakwater configuration. The hydraulic experimental results can be used to predict the performance of the proposed submerged breakwater covered with the multi-function blocks.

Submerged Horizontal and Vertical Membrane Wave Barrier

  • Kee S.T.
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.19 no.2 s.63
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2005
  • In the present paper, the hydrodynamic properties of a Rahmen type flexible porous breakwater with dual fixed pontoon system interacting with obliquely or normally incident small amplitude waves are numerically investigated. This system is composed of dual vertical porous membranes hinged at the side edges of dual fixed pontoons, and a submerged horizontal membrane that both ends are hinged at the steel frames mounted pontoons. The dual vertical membranes are extended downward and hinged at bottom steal frame fixed into seabed. The wave blocking and dissipation mechanism and its effects of permeability, Rahmen type membrane and pontoon geometry, pretensions on membranes, relative dimensionless wave number, and incident wave headings are thoroughly examined.

A Study on Uncertainty Quantification and Performance Confidence Interval Estimation for Application to Digital Twin of Oscillating Water Column Type Wave Power Generator System (진동수주형 파력발전 시스템의 디지털 트윈 적용을 위한 불확실성 정량화 및 성능 신뢰구간 추정 연구)

  • Tae-Kyun Kim;Su-Gil Cho;Jae-Won Oh;Tae-Hee Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.401-409
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    • 2023
  • Oscillating water column (OWC) type wave power generator system is a power generation system that uses wave energy, a sustainable and renewable energy source. Irregular cycles and wave heights act as factors that make it difficult to secure generation efficiency of the wave power generator system. Recently, research for improving power generation efficiency is being conducted by applying digital twin technology to OWC type wave energy converter system. However, digital twin using sensor data can predict erroneous performance due to uncertainty in the sensor data. Therefore, this study proposes an uncertainty analysis method for sensor data which is used in digital twin to secure the reliability of digital twin prediction results. Uncertainty quantification considering sensor data characteristics and future uncertainty information according to uncertainty propagation were derived mathematically, and confidence interval estimation was performed based on the proposed method.

Application of the Eco-friendly Materials for the Interior Design (친환경 실내 디자인 소재 개발 활용 방안)

  • Sung, Nak-Bong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.10
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    • pp.209-216
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    • 2011
  • This paper, the shielding material is suggested using by the korean paper, lacquer, and charcoal those can be used more eco-friendly materials for the interior design. Also, it is designed the image-wall for improving of the electromagnetic shielding and the beauty. Suggested shielding material is manufactured with the thickness of 2 mm by the printing method of the lacquer and charcoal on the korean paper. This material has the shielding effectiveness over 95% until 2 GHz. The application for the interior design using more eco-friendly material can be reduced the effect of electromagnetic wave and the chemical substances like as the formaldehyde and the volatile organic compound (VOC).

The Wave Power Generator on Small Ship for Charging Engine Start-Up Battery (엔진 시동용 소형선 탑재형 파력 발전 시스템)

  • Kisoo, Ryu;Sungjin, Kang;Byeongseok, Yu
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.59 no.6
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    • pp.439-446
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    • 2022
  • Efforts to reduce carbon dioxide(CO2) emissions are being carried out due to climate environmental problems. Eco-friendly ships are also being developed, and various energy saving measures have been developed and applied. In ships, researches have been conducted in various fields such as electric propulsion system and energy saving devices. In addition, the development of ships using various renewable energy, such as kite using wind power and wind power generation, has been carried out. This paper proposes a plan to use renewable energy for ships by applying wave generators to small ships. In 2016, 130 small domestic ships drifted by sea due to discharge of starting storage batteries, and discharge cases accounted for the largest portion of the causes of domestic ship accidents. This is due to the excessive use of storage batteries for starting the main engine by departing in a weak storage battery state for small ships. Accordingly, two type wave power generators - opened flow wave power generator and enclosed vibrator type wave power generator - are developed for charging a starting storage battery when the ships are stationary at sea or port. Opened flow wave power generator utilizes the flow of fluid in the ship by using wave induced ship motion. Enclosed vibrator type wave power generator utilizes the pendulum kinetic energy located in a ship due to wave induced ship motion.

Responses of Submerged Double Hull Pontoon/Membrane Breakwater

  • Kee S.T.
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.19 no.2 s.63
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2005
  • The present paper outlines the numerical investigation of the incident wave interactions with fully submerged and floating dual double hull pontoon/vertical porous membrane breakwaters. Two dimensional five fluid-domains hydro-elastic formulation was carried out in the context of linear wave body interaction theory to study the wave interaction with the double hull of pontoon-membranes. The submerged circular pontoon is consisted of double hulls, which is filled with water in the void space between the outer structure and inner solid buoyant structure. Hydrodynamic characteristics of the proposed system with dual floating double-hull-pontoons filled with water have been studied numerically for the various incident waves. This study is a beginning stage research for the dual double hull porous pontoons/vertical porous membranes breakwaters which is ideally designed in order to suppress significantly the transmitted and reflected waves simultaneously.

Numerical Analysis of Hydrodynamic Performance of a Movable Submerged Breakwater (가동식 잠수 방파제의 유체동력학적 성능 수치해석)

  • Koo, Weon-Cheol;Kim, Do-Hyun
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.23-32
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    • 2011
  • Numerical analysis of hydrodynamic performance of a movable submerged breakwater was carried out as an eco-friendly marine structure for coastal and harbor protection. Using boundary elements method with two-dimensional frequency-domain reflection and transmission coefficients and wave forces acting on the submerged flat plate were calculated with various submerged depths and respective motion allowable modes. The movable breakwater was found to be more efficient in wave-blocking than the fixed structure. Variation of reflection coefficients was significantly influenced by vertical motion of the body.

Characteristics of Seasonal Wave, Wave-Induced Current and Sediment Transport in Haeundae Beach (해운대 해수욕장의 계절별 파랑, 해빈류 및 퇴적물이동 특성)

  • Lee, Jong-Sup;Tac, Dae-Ho;Woo, Jin-Gap
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.574-585
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    • 2007
  • To analyze the incident wave characteristics around Haeundae beach the long-term deep water wave data computed by wave hindcast method were used and a continuous wave observation was carried out for 1 year at the 20 m of water depth in front of Haeundae beach. Wave observation data showd that the prevalent wave direction was SSW-S in spring and summer seasons while E-SE in autumn and winter. A numerical modeling shows that the waves from E-SE are refracted strongly due to the shoal developed at the south-east side of Haeundae beach. The simulation also shows inflowing nearshore current along the east coast of the beach develops strongly in autumn and winter. Radioactive isotope tracer experiment for 155 days indicated that the tracers moves to the on-shore direction in the 1st and 2nd tracking then dispersed to the E-W direction along the shore.