• Wind and Structures
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.443-460
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• 2015

In this paper, an integrator based method to estimate the effective wind speed in wind turbine systems is proposed. First, the aerodynamic torque was accurately estimated through a proportional gain based observer where the generator speed is the measured output of the system. The torque signal contains not only useful frequencies of the wind, but also high frequencies and the ones due to structural vibration. The useful information of the wind signal is low frequency. A spectral analysis permitted the determination of the useful frequencies. The high frequencies were then filtered before introducing the torque signal in the wind speed observer. The desired effective wind speed was extracted through an integrator based observer using the previously estimated aerodynamic torque. The strength of the method is to avoid numerical solutions used in literature of the wind speed estimation. The effectiveness of the proposed wind speed estimator and its use to control the generator speed has been tested under turbulent situations using the FAST software (Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures, and Turbulence), for large scale Megawatt turbine.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2011년도 제42회 하계학술대회
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• pp.396-397
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• 2011

As moving away from fossil fuel makes rapid progress, new paradigm has arisen in the power industry area. Developing alternative energy source is progressing actively, the proportion of renewable energy in electricity production is expected to be increased. Because the output of wind farm depends on wind characteristic, minimizing the output fluctuation is a key to keep the power system controllable and stable. Various compensation scheme for stabilizing the output of wind farm has been developed. Considering some requirements such as reaction velocity, controllability, scalability and applicability, energy storage system is one of the effective methods for spreading of renewable energy. In this paper, method of compensating method with forecasting algorithm was simulated, and then the results was analyzed.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2014

A wind-driven current in the East Sea from Lagrangian measurements of wind and current at 15 m using MiniMet drifters was analyzed. Spectral analysis of the current from 217 pieces of a 10 day-long time series shows the dominant energy at the inertial frequency for the current at 15 m. Wind has energy peaks at a 0.2-0.5 cycles per day (cpd) frequency band. The power spectrum of the clockwise rotating component is predominant for the current and was 1.5-2 times larger than the anticlockwise rotating component for wind. Co-spectra between the wind and current show two peak frequency bands at subinertial frequency and 0.5-0.3 cpd. Coherences between the wind and current at those peak frequencies are significant with 95% confidence and phase differences were $90-100^{\circ}$. From the phase differences, the efolding depth is estimated as 17 m and this e-folding depth is smaller than the estimation by Chereskin's (1999) 25 m using a moored Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler and an anemometer installed at the surface buoy. The angle between the wind-driven current (or ageostrophic current) and wind from this study was also much larger than the global estimate by Rio and Hernandez (2003) using reanalysis wind and drifters. The possible explanation for the discrepancy comes from the fact that the current is driven by a wind of smaller length scale than 250 km but the satellite or the reanalysis products do not resolve winds of length scale smaller than 250 km. Large rms differences between Mini-Met and QuickSCAT wind on spatial lags smaller than 175 km substantiate this explanation.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.94-99
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• 2024

최근 들어 풍력 발전은 신재생 에너지 중에서 높은 효율을 가진 에너지원으로 주목받고 있으며, 이에 따라 전 세계적으로 다양한 기술 개발이 진행되고 있다. 일반적으로 풍력 발전은 풍력 자원이 풍부한 지역에 많은 풍력터빈을 설치하여 운영하는 대형 풍력 농장(Big Wind Farm) 형태로 운영되고 있으나 개발 도상국이나 전력망에서 고립된 지역에서는 오프-그리드(Off-Grid) 형태의 소형 풍력 발전 시스템이 효율적인 솔루션으로 부상하고 있다. 오프-그리드(Off-Grid) 형태의 소규모 발전 시스템을 효율적으로 운영하고 확산시키기 위해서는 실시간 모니터링 시스템의 개발이 요구된다. 소규모 풍력 발전 시스템 구성을 위해 과다한 풍속으로 인한 손상 방지 체계 및 다양한 환경적 요소에 능동적으로 대처하기 위한 실시간 발전소 운영 모니터링 체계 그리고 생산된 전력을 안정적으로 소규모 지역이나 시설에 공급하기 위한 ESS(Energy Storage System) 시스템에 대해 연구하였다. 구현된 시스템은 터빈의 RPM, 발전량, 브레이크 동작, 발전량 등을 모니터링하여 최적 운영환경이 조성되도록 하였다. 구현된 소형 풍력발전 체계는 격오지 도로 조명, 해양 레저 시설, 모바일 통신 기지국 등에 활용될 수 잇으며 RE100 산업 생태계 발전에 기여할 수 있을 것이다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.129-146
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• 2024

Aiming at the problem of non-stationary wind field simulation of downbursts, a non-stationary down-burst generation system was designed by adding a nozzle and program control valve to the inlet of the original wall jet model. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method was used to simulate the downburst. Firstly, the two-dimensional (2D) model was used to study the outflow situation, and the database of working conditions was formed. Then the combined superposition of working conditions was carried out to simulate the full-scale measured downburst. The three-dimensional (3D) large eddy simulation (LES) was used for further verification based on this superposition condition. Finally, the wind tunnel test is used to further verify. The results show that after the valve is opened, the wind ve-locity at low altitude increases rapidly, then stays stable, and the wind velocity at each point fluctuates. The velocity of the 2D model matches the wind velocity trend of the measured downburst well. The 3D model matches the measured downburst flow in terms of wind velocity and pulsation characteris-tics. The time-varying mean wind velocity of the wind tunnel test is in better agreement with the meas-ured time-varying mean wind velocity of the downburst. The power spectrum of fluctuating wind ve-locity at different vertical heights for the test condition also agrees well with the von Karman spectrum, and conforms to the "-5/3" law. The vertical profile of the maximum time-varying average wind veloci-ty obtained from the test shows the basic characteristics of the typical wind profile of the downburst. The effectiveness of the downburst generation system is verified.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2015

Wind Turbines are becoming larger in size in order to improve economic efficiency through cost reduction, such as the construction of growth and power infrastructure of energy efficiency. It have requested the large-scale blade design and production. In the present study the new manufacture technique called a fabric-blade structure using spar, rib, and fabric membrane skin is introduced. The architectural membrane test method has been studied to be applied to the skin of the blade. The density and one-axis tensile tests of the architectural membrane materials are conducted to confirm the physical properties which are necessary to the structural designs and analyses of the wind turbine blade.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2012

This paper describes a new design of small-scale horizontal wind blade, called spiral wind turbine blade. Theoretical and numerical approaches on the prediction of aerodynamic performance of the blade have been conducted. A theoretical equation is successfully derived using the angular momentum equation to predict aerodynamic characteristics according to the design shape parameters of spiral blade. To be compared with the theoretical value, a numerical simulation using ANSYS CFX v12.1 is performed on the same design with the theoretical one. Large scale tip vortex is captured and graphically presented in this paper. The TSR-$C_p$ diagram shows a typical parabolic relation in which the maximum efficiency of the blade approximately 25% exists at TSR=2.5. The numerical simulation agrees well with that of the theoretical result except at the low rotational speed region of 0~20 rad/s.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제37권11호
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• pp.1121-1130
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• 2009

QuikSCAT 위성의 관측자료를 이용하여 2000년 1월로부터 2008년 12월에 걸쳐 한반도 근해의 풍력자원을 평가 하였다. QuikSCAT 위성은 초단파 scatterometer를 이용하여 해수면 가까이의 풍향과 풍속을 전천후 상태에서 측정한다. 해면으로부터 10 m 높이에서 측정된 풍속을 power law모델을 이용하여 허브 높이에 맞게 외삽 보정하였다. 계산 결과 한반도의 남해와 동해에서 풍력에너지가 상대적으로 우세하다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 풍력 터빈 타워의 설치를 위해 깊은 수심을 피하고 대규모 풍력단지 조성을 위해 남해의 다도해 지역을 피한다면 한반도 서쪽 또는 남서쪽 연안이 대규모 풍력단지 조성에 유리하나 상대적으로 낮은 풍속을 고려한 블레이드 개발을 요한다. 바람 지도를 작성하였으며, 특정 지점에 대한 월별 풍속 변화를 파악하였다. 그리고 풍력에너지 밀도를 이용한 바람장미를 파악하였다.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.127-138
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• 2023

국제사회는 글로벌 기후위기 극복을 위해 2050년까지 탄소중립(Net Zero)을 목표로 다양한 탈탄소 에너지원 개발을 지속하고 있다. 우리 정부에서도 '재생에너지 3020' 정책을 수립하고 태양광이나 풍력을 이용한 에너지 개발계획을 추진함에 따라 해상 풍력발전단지와 같이 연안해역에서 기존에는 볼 수 없었던 대규모 해양개발사업이 추진되고 있다. 해양시설물은 선박의 입장에서 볼 때는 항행 장애물의 일종이며, 해양시설물 설치에 따라 좁아진 수역에서 선박 간 충돌사고 발생 또는 선박과 해양시설물의 접촉사고 발생시 환경오염 및 인명피해 등의 발생이 우려된다. 이에 국내외의 해상풍력발전단지 개발계획을 살펴보고 풍력단지에서 선박의 안전한 통항을 보장하기 위한 제도적 장치가 완비되어 있는지 분석하였으며, 해외의 입법 사례와 국내 법규를 비교하여 법적 사각지대를 해소하기 위한 새로운 법령안을 제안함으로써 대한민국의 관할해역에서 해양시설물의 안전한 운영과 선박의 안전한 통항을 기대하였다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제29권8호
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• pp.83-89
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• 2015

This study suggests the methodology to decide the number and adequate capacity of substation transformer in a large-scale offshore wind farm (OWF). The recent trend in transformer capacity of offshore substation is analyzed in many European offshore wind farm sites prior to entering the studies. In order to carry out the economic evaluation for the transformer capacity we present the cost models which consist of investment, operation, and expected energy not supplied (EENS) cost as well as the probabilistic wind power model of wind energy that combines the wind speed with wind turbine output characteristics for a exact calculation of energy loss cost. Economic assessment includes sensitivity analysis of parameters which could impact the 400-MW OWF: average wind speed, availability, discount rate, energy cost, and life-cycle.