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Evaluation of the limit ice thickness for the hull of various Finnish-Swedish ice class vessels navigating in the Russian Arctic

  • Kujala, Pentti;Korgesaar, Mihkel;Kamarainen, Jorma
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.376-384
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    • 2018
  • Selection of suitable ice class for ships operation is an important but not simple task. The increased exploitation of the Polar waters, both seasonal periods and geographical areas, as well as the introduction of new international design standards such as Polar Code, reduces the relevancy of using existing experience as basis for the selection, and new methods and knowledge have to be developed. This paper will analyse what can be the limiting ice thickness for ships navigating in the Russian Arctic and designed according to the Finnish-Swedish ice class rules. The permanent deformations of ice-strengthened shell structures for various ice classes is determined using MT Uikku as the typical size of a vessel navigating in ice. The ice load in various conditions is determined using the ARCDEV data from the winter 1998 as the basic database. By comparing the measured load in various ice conditions with the serviceability limit state of the structures, the limiting ice thickness for various ice classes is determined. The database for maximum loads includes 3-weeks ice load measurements during April 1998 on the Kara Sea mainly by icebreaker assistance. Gumbel 1 distribution is fitted on the measured 20 min maximum values and the data is divided into various classes using ship speed, ice thickness and ice concentration as the main parameters. Results encouragingly show that present designs are safer than assumed in the Polar Code suggesting that assisted operation in Arctic conditions is feasible in rougher conditions than indicated in the Polar Code.

Evalulation of the Tower Fatigue Loads by Ice Formation on Rotor Blades (로터 블레이드 결빙에 의한 타워 피로하중 평가)

  • Kim, Jeong-Gi;Park, Sun-Ho;Bang, Jo-Hyug;Jung, Jong-Hun;Kim, Sang-Dug;Ryu, Ji-Yune
    • Journal of Wind Energy
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.43-49
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    • 2014
  • Primarily, tower loads of a wind turbine arise from aerodynamic effect and a top head mass. But sometime asymmetric loads of rotor also affect on the tower loads. Especially ice formation on two blades out of three causes the asymmetric loads, because the ice formation on blades lead to large rotating mass imbalance. This rotating mass imbalance of rotor affects tower fatigue loads. So design load cases of ice formation on blade should be considered in the fatigue design loads of the tower according to GL guideline 2010. This paper describes the change of tower fatigue loads following increase of tower height in the condition of ice formation. Finally, the optimal operation strategy is examined in order to reduce tower fatigue design loads.

A Study on Statistical Analysis of Local Ice Loads Measured during the Arctic Voyage of the IBRV ARAON

  • Kwon, Yong-Hyeon;Choi, Kyungsik;Lee, Tak-Kee
    • Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.186-197
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    • 2015
  • In summer 2010, field measurements of local ice loads were carried out in the Arctic Ocean using the Korean first icebreaking research vessel, ARAON. In some previous studies by the authors, several investigations for the data measured at 2010 including the relationship between the measuring points and ice loads, the possibility for observation of higher ice load and the relationship between the ship speed and ice loads were reported. During 10 days in August 2013, new field measurements were performed in similar waters of the Arctic Ocean using the same vessel, ARAON. The aim of this study is to investigate the statistical properties of 2013 measurements and compare results by two periods.

Simulation and Energy Cost Calculation of Encapsulated Ice Storage System (캡슐형 빙축열시스템에 대한 운전 시뮬레이션 및 에너지비용 분석)

  • Lee, K.H.;Joo, Y.J.;Choi, B.Y.;Kim, S.J.
    • Solar Energy
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.63-73
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    • 1999
  • Ice storage systems are used to shift the peak load in day time into night time in summer. This paper describes a system simulation of partial ice storage system composed of an encapsulated ice storage tank, a screw compressor chiller, a heat exchanger, and a brine pump. For the system simulation, a one-dimensional model of ice storage tank is developed and validated by comparison with the performance data from measurements of an ice storage tank installed at a building. The control strategies considered in this study are chiller priority and storage priority being used commercially. The system is simulated with design cooling load of 600 RT peak load in design day and with off-design day cooling load, and the electric energy costs of the two control strategies for the same system size are compared. As a result of calculation, the energy consumption in a week for storage priority is higher than that for chiller priority control. However due to lower cost of night electric charge rate, energy cost for storage priority control is lower than chiller priority.

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Effects of Ship Speed and Ice Thickness on Local Ice Loads Measured in Arctic Sea (북극해에서 계측된 국부 빙하중에 대한 선속 및 빙두께 영향)

  • Lee, Tak-Kee;Lee, Jong-Hyun;Rim, Chae-Whan;Choi, Kyungsik
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.82-87
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    • 2013
  • The icebreaking research vessel ARAON conducted her second ice trial in the Arctic Ocean during the summer season of 2010. During this voyage, the local ice loads acting on the bow of the port side were measured using 14 strain gauges. The measurement was carried out during icebreaking while measuring the thickness of the ice every 10 m. The obtained strain data were converted to the equivalent stress values, and the effects of the ship speed and ice thickness on the ice load were investigated. As a result, it was found that a faster speed produced a larger stress, according to the variation in the peak values below an ice thickness condition of 1.5 m. Meanwhile, the effect of the ice thickness on the ice load was not clear.

Profile Analysis on Signal Measured Local Ice Load during Icebreaking in Arctic Sea (북극해에서의 쇄빙시 국부 빙하중 계측 신호에 대한 파형 분석)

  • Jeon, Young-Ju;Rim, Chae-Whan;Lee, Tak-Kee
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.143-148
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    • 2013
  • The aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics on the profile of local ice load acting on side shell of port side in bow part due to broken ice during icebreaking of ships in ice covered waters. The first Korean icebreaking research vessel 'ARAON' had a sea ice field trial in the Arctic Sea during early August, 2010, and the signals due to local ice impact measured from several strain gauges installed at bow part were gathered. It is known that these data with structural response characteristics due to local ice impact have some different characteristics with a typical hydraulic impact pressure - time history. In this study, the time history on the measured signals was analyzed and the characteristic values were presented using non-dimensional parameters.

The Study on Cooling Load Forecast using Neural Networks (신경회로망을 이용한 냉방부하예측에 관한 연구)

  • 신관우;이윤섭
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.14 no.8
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    • pp.626-633
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    • 2002
  • The electric power load during the peak time in summer is strongly affected by cooling load, which decreases the preparation ratio of electricity and brings about the failure in the supply of electricity in the electric power system. The ice-storage system and heat pump system etc. are used to settle this problem. In this study, the method of estimating temperature and humidity to forecast the cooling load of ice storage system is suggested. And also the method of forecasting the cooling load using neural network is suggested. For the simulation, the cooling load is calculated using actual temperature and humidity, The forecast of the temperature, humidity and cooling load are simulated. As a result of the simulation, the forecasted data is approached to the actual data.

The Study on Cooling Load Forecast of an Unit Building using Neural Networks

  • Shin, Kwan-Woo;Lee, Youn-Seop
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.170-177
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    • 2003
  • The electric power load during the summer peak time is strongly affected by cooling load, which decreases the preparation ratio of electricity and brings about the failure in the supply of electricity in the electric power system. The ice storage system and heat pump system etc. are used to settle this problem. In this study, the method of estimating temperature and humidity to forecast the cooling load of ice storage system is suggested. The method of forecasting the cooling load using neural network is also suggested. The daily cooling load is mainly dependent on actual temperature and humidity of the day. The simulation is started with forecasting the temperature and humidity of the following day from the past data. The cooling load is then simulated by using the forecasted temperature and humidity data obtained from the simulation. It was observed that the forecasted data were closely approached to the actual data.

A study on the Operating Characteristics of the Capsule-type Ice Storage System (캡슐형 빙축열 시스템의 운전특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyung-Hwan;Cho, Sung-Woo;Choi, Jeong-Min;Ha, Suk-Young
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.199-204
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    • 2005
  • The decrease of summer peak electric load of our country is very important. The government is arranging a lot of support policies and statutes. etc. to decrease of peak electric load. And ice storage system is known as one of the alternatives. The purpose of this study is to collect basic data for operating characteristics to plan the most suitable operation of capsule-type ice storage system. The storaging tank is designed to take charge 40% of total cooling load in building, In operation condition the storage tank took charge 50%. Coefficient Of Performance of daily screw refrigerator is around 4.

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Analysis Method of Ice Load and Ship Structural Response due to Collision of Ice Bergy Bit and Level Ice (유빙 및 평탄빙의 충돌에 의한 빙하중과 선체구조응답 해석기법)

  • Nho, In Sik;Lee, Jae-Man;Oh, Young-Taek;Kim, Sung-Chan
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.85-91
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    • 2016
  • The most important factor in the structural design of ships and offshore structures operating in arctic region is ice load, which results from ice-structure interaction during the ice collision process. The mechanical properties of ice related to strength and failure, however, show very complicated aspect varying with temperature, volume fraction of brine, grain size, strain rate and etc. So it is nearly impossible to establish a perfect material model of ice satisfying all the mechanical characteristics completely. Therefore, in general, ice collision analysis was carried out by relatively simple material models considering only specific aspects of mechanical characteristics of ice and it would be the most significant cause of inevitable errors in the analysis. Especially, it is well-known that the most distinctive mechanical property of ice is high dependency on strain rate. Ice shows brittle attribute in higher strain rate while it becomes ductile in lower strain rate range. In this study, the simulation method of ice collision to ship hull using the nonlinear dynamic FE analysis was dealt with. To consider the strain rate effects of ice during ice-structural interaction, strain rate dependent constitutive model in which yield stress and hardening behaviors vary with strain rate was adopted. To reduce the huge amount of computing time, the modeling range of ice and ship structure were restricted to the confined region of interest. Under the various scenario of ice-ship hull collision, the structural behavior of hull panels and failure modes of ice were examined by nonlinear FE analysis technique.