• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.60-64
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• 2018

As the offshore wind farms increase, interest in the efficient power system configuration of submarine cables is increasing. Currently, transmission system of the offshore wind farm uses almost AC system. High temperature superconducting (HTS) power cable of the high capacity has long been considered as an enabling technology for power transmission. The HTS cable is a feasible way to increase the transmission capacity of electric power and to provide a substantial reduction in transmission losses and a resultant effect of low CO2 emission. The HTS cable reduces its size and laying sectional area in comparison with a conventional XLPE or OF cable. This is an advantage to reduce its construction cost. In this paper, we discuss the economic feasibility of the 22.9 kV HTS power cable and the conventional AC power cables for an offshore wind farm connections. The 22.9 kV HTS power cable cost for the offshore wind farm connections was calculated based on the capital expenditure and operating expense. The economic feasibility of the HTS power cable and the AC power cables were compared for the offshore wind farm connections. In the case of the offshore wind farm with a capacity of 100 MW and a distance of 3 km to the coast, cost of the 22.9 kV HTS power cable for the offshore wind farm connections was higher than 22.9 kV AC power cable and lower than 70 kV AC power transmission cable.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.48-55
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• 2019

With recent rapid increases in the power generation capacity of offshore wind power generators, reliable structural analysis of the large-scale infrastructure needed to install wind power generators at sea is required. Therefore, technology for heavy marine equipment such as barges and excavation equipment is needed. Under submarine conditions, rock drilling technology to install the substructure for offshore wind pile excavation is a very important factor in supporting a wind farm safely under dynamic loads over periods of at least 20 years. After investigating the marine environment and on-site ground excavation for the Saemangeum offshore wind farm, in this study we suggest.

• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2018

The Korea Offshore Wind Power (KOWP) is planning to construct offshore wind energy farms with an overall rated power of 2.5 GW in the south-western coast of the country until 2019. Various types of support structures for offshore wind turbines have been proposed in the past. Nevertheless, in South Korea, jacket structures have in general, been applied as support structures for offshore wind turbines owing to the many accumulated experiences and know-how regarding this kind of support structure. The choice of offshore structure is mainly influenced by site conditions such as seabed soil type and sea environment during installation. In installing jacket sets on the seabed, the mudmat is necessary to maintain the equilibrium of the jacket without the aid of additional devices. Hence, this study proposes the installation of skirt plates underneath the bottom frame of jackets in order to improve the installation stability of jacket structures under rougher sea conditions. To confirm the effect of skirt plates, installation stability analyses considering overturning, sliding and bearing capacity have been performed. From the results, it is shown that jacket structures with skirt plates can contribute to improving the sliding stability of the structures of new wind power farms, while providing economic benefits.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.85-106
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• 2019

해상풍력발전은 대표적인 재생에너지이며 급속히 성장하고 있는 산업으로 정부는 2030년까지 17.7GW로 확대할 계획을 추진하고 있다. 경상남도의 경우에도 욕지도에 461.9MW 규모의 해상풍력발전이 추진중이며, 향후 1GW 규모 이상으로 추가 확대될 것으로 예상되고 있다. 이에 따라 해상풍력발전 기자재의 보관, 조립, 운송, 설치 등의 기능을 지원하는 지원항만은 해상풍력단지 개발사업의 원활한 진행과 경제성 확보에 중요한 역할을 할 것으로 예상된다. 본 연구는 선행연구와 주요국 사례를 바탕으로 해상풍력 지원항만의 평가 기준을 마련하여 욕지도 해상풍력단지와 연계한 경상남도 소재 항만의 여건을 분석하고 평가해 보고자 하였다. 평가 기준으로 해상풍력단지와의 거리, 입출항 제약, 항행수역, 어업권 요인, 부대비용, 안벽길이, 수심, 항만부지, 부두하중, 타 화물 간섭, 민원과 관련산업 집적으로 세분화하였다. 이후 경상남도 항만 중에서 통영항, 삼천포항, 고현항, 마산항, 진해항을 선정하여 평가하였다. 연구 결과로 해상풍력단지와의 거리, 입출항 제약, 어업권 요인 등은 통영항이 우수하였으나, 안벽길이, 수심, 항만부지 등 다른 평가 기준에서는 대체적으로 삼천포항, 마산항, 진해항이 우수한 것으로 평가되었다. 본 연구는 지속적으로 증가하는 해상풍력단지 개발사업과 연계하여 공공기관, 풍력사업자 및 정책입안자가 지원항만 선정에 필요한 사항을 평가하는 기본 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.3-12
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• 2012

Large offshore wind farms have actively been developed in order to meet the needs for wind energy since the land-based wind farms have almost been fully developed especially in Europe. The key problem for the construction of offshore wind farms may be on the high cost of energy compared to land-based ones. NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) has developed a spreadsheet-based tool to estimate the cost of wind-generated electricity from both land-based and offshore wind turbines. Component formulas for various kinds and scales of wind turbines were made using available field data. In this paper, this NREL estimation model is introduced and applied to the offshore wind turbines now under designing or in production in Korea, and the result is discussed.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.65-70
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• 2010

As for the present wind power industry, most of the computerization for monitoring and control is based on the traditional development methodology, but it is necessary to improve SCADA system since it has a phenomenon of backlog accumulation in the applicable aspect of back-data as well as in the operational aspect in the future. Especially for a system like offshore wind power where a superintendent cannot reside, it is desirable to operate a remote control system. Therefore, it is essential to establish a monitoring system with appropriate control and monitoring inevitably premised on the integrity and independence of data. As a result, a study was carried out on the modeling of offshore wind power data-centered database. In this paper, a logical data modeling method was proposed and designed to establish the database of offshore wind power. In order for designing the logical data modeling of an offshore wind power system, this study carried out an analysis of design elements for the database of offshore wind power and described considerations and problems as well. Through a comparative analysis of the final database of the newly-designed off-shore wind power system against the existing SCADA System, this study proposed a new direction to bring about progress toward a smart wind power system, showing a possibility of a service-oriented smart wind power system, such as future prediction, hindrance-cause examination and fault analyses, through the database integrating various control signals, geographical information and data about surrounding environments.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권7호
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• pp.984-991
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• 2015

This paper presents the methodology for optimal design of power grid for offshore wind power plant (OWPP) and optimum location of offshore substation. The proposed optimization process is based on a genetic algorithm, where the objective cost model is composed of investment, power loss, repair, and reliability cost using the net present value during the whole OWPP life cycle. A probability wind power output is modeled to reflect the characteristics of a wind power plant that produces electricity through wind and to calculate the reliability cost called expected energy not supplied. The main objective is to find the minimum cost for grid connection topology by submarine cables which cannot cross each other. Cable crossing was set as a constraint in the optimization algorithm of grid topology of the wind power plant. On the basis of this method, a case study is conducted to validate the model by simulating a 100-MW OWF.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.47-59
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• 2017

본 연구는 InVEST(Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoff) Offshore Wind 모형을 활용하여 제주도 장선주 인근 해역의 해상풍력 에너지 자원을 평가하였다. 초단기 기상분석 및 예측 시스템(KLAPS)의 재분석 자료를 이용하여 제주도 인근 해역의 풍력밀도를 계산하고 터빈 조성비용, 터빈의 운영 효율, 해저케이블 설치비용, 20년 운영시나리오, 유지관리비 등을 고려하여 168MW 해상풍력 단지를 설치하였을 때의 순현재가치를 산정하였다. 제주도 인근 해역의 풍력밀도 분포도를 통하여 제주도 서쪽해역과 동쪽해역에 높은 풍력자원이 있음을 알 수 있었으며, 대부분의 서측해역과 동측해역은 $400W/m^2$ 이상의 높은 풍력밀도를 보였다. 제주지역 해상풍력발전에 대한 순현재가치를 가시적으로 평가하기 위하여 5등급으로 구분하였으며, $400W/m^2$ 이상의 풍력자원이 존재하는 서측 해역에서 높은 순현재가치를 보였다. InVEST Offshore Wind 모형은 다양한 운영시나리오에 대하여 최적의 공간정보를 신속하게 제공해 줄 수 있으며, 해양생태계서비스 평가 결과와 혼용하여 사용한다면 보다 효율적인 해양공간을 이용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.39.1-39.1
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• 2011

Due to less turbulence and no land limitation, offshore wind energy gets more attention than onshore. Jacket structure is regarded as a suitable solution for the water depth ranging from 30 to 80 meters. In general, joint stress concentration of jacket support structures affects their fatigue life. Nowadays, most jacket structures for offshore wind turbines have tubular X-joint between legs. In this paper, a study on X-joint stress concentration of offshore wind turbine jacket structure is performed by using 50m water depth model. Stress of X-joint on offshore environmental conditions are discussed.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.318-320
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• 2008

Offshore remote-sensing wind extraction using SAR satellite image is an emerging and promising technology for offshore wind resource assessment. We compared our numerical weather prediction and offshore wind extraction from ENVISAT images around Korea offshore areas. A few comparison sets showed good agreement but more comparisons are required to draw application guideline on a statistical basis.