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A Study on Finite Element Modeling Method of Yaw Bearing for Wind Turbine (풍력터빈 요 베어링의 유한요소모델링 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Hwan;Ko, Woo-Sick;Lee, Hyoung-Woo
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.8
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    • pp.918-923
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    • 2007
  • Recently, the interest for renewable energy producing system is increasing rapidly. Among these, the wind turbine is most highlighted. It is installed at severe environment and generated electricity for a long time to exceed twenty years. Components of wind turbine are required high reliability. Therefore, structural strength analysis for wind turbine is needed for an accurate FE model. This paper is to provide reliable fine element modeling method of yaw bearing for wind turbine.

A Control and Protection Model for the Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Systems in Microgrids

  • Ballal, Makarand Sudhakar;Bhadane, Kishor V.;Moharil, Ravindra M.;Suryawanshi, Hiralal M.
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.748-759
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    • 2016
  • The microgrid concept is a promising approach for injecting clean, renewable, and reliable electricity into power systems. It can operate in both the grid-connected and the islanding mode. This paper addresses the two main challenges associated with the operation of a microgrid i.e. control and protection. A control strategy for inverter based distributed generation (DG) and an energy storage system (ESS) are proposed to control both the voltage and frequency during islanding operation. The protection scheme is proposed to protect the lines, DG and ESS. Further, the control scheme and the protection scheme are coordinated to avoid nuisance tripping of the DG, ESS and loads. The feasibility of the proposed method is verified by simulation and experimental results.

Design evaluation of wind turbine pitch/yaw bearings by contact stress analysis (응력해석을 통한 풍력 발전기용 피치/요 베어링 설계 검증)

  • Ka, Jaewon;Kim, JaeDong;Nam, Yongyun;Rim, Chaewhan;Park, Youngjun;Bang, Jesung;Lee, Youngshin
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.43.2-43.2
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    • 2011
  • Wind turbine pitch/yaw bearings are relatively big and have different operating conditions like very heavy load to support compared with widely used industrial bearings. Once pitch/yaw bearings failed, according to their special surroundings, serious damages like higher repair costs and additional costs by stopped electricity generation are occur. Therefore, pitch/yaw bearings must be designed to have enough strength and fatigue life under actual operating conditions. In this study, with finite element analysis, it was investigated that stress distribution between rolling elements and raceway and comparatively analyzed using widely used guideline (NREL DG03). Design parameters of wind turbine pitch/yaw bearings are also analyzed, and it could be used as reference for the large bearing design field.

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Recent Advances in Cold-Start and Drive Capability of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle

  • Sung, Woo-Suk;Suh, Kyung-Won;Kweon, Soon-Gil;Park, Jong-Jin
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.47-50
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    • 2008
  • The sub-zero cold is a major environmental consideration for the operational readiness of FCEVs because fuel cells produce water and utilize wet air with varying water content to generate electricity. Typical fuel cells thus have a fatal flaw in freezing conditions at startup. This drawback becomes more serious with the outsourced fuel cell that is entirely water-based for its internal humidification. In this background, the HMC's self-designed fuel cell was developed as an alternative and was employed in the Tucson-based FCEV in 2006 demonstrating its good cold-startup characteristics. The cold-startup capacity of the vehicle was validated through tests in the cold chamber and on the road, resulting in 50% stack power achieved in 250 seconds at $-15^{\circ}C$.

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Application Strategies of Photovoltaic Energy in Ulsan (울산지역의 태양광에너지의 활용방안)

  • Lee, Kwan-Ho;Sim, Kwang-Yeal
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.320-323
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    • 2009
  • Weather data is an important variable for the estimation value of the program for evaluating energy performance. The difference in data value of major weather elements used in weather data (temperature, insolation amount) were compared and analyzed. It was found that temperature showed similar values but insolation amount took different values. Especially in Ulsan, since the Meteorological Association does not measure insolation amount. To optimize the incident solar radiation, the solar azimuth angles are needed for solar photovoltaic systems. Test results shows that the $60^{\circ}$installation angel higher efficient than the $30^{\circ}$ installation angel in winter.

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A Clustering Approach to Wind Power Prediction based on Support Vector Regression

  • Kim, Seong-Jun;Seo, In-Yong
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.108-112
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    • 2012
  • A sustainable production of electricity is essential for low carbon green growth in South Korea. The generation of wind power as renewable energy has been rapidly growing around the world. Undoubtedly wind energy is unlimited in potential. However, due to its own intermittency and volatility, there are difficulties in the effective harvesting of wind energy and the integration of wind power into the current electric power grid. To cope with this, many works have been done for wind speed and power forecasting. It is reported that, compared with physical persistent models, statistical techniques and computational methods are more useful for short-term forecasting of wind power. Among them, support vector regression (SVR) has much attention in the literature. This paper proposes an SVR based wind speed forecasting. To improve the forecasting accuracy, a fuzzy clustering is adopted in the process of SVR modeling. An illustrative example is also given by using real-world wind farm dataset. According to the experimental results, it is shown that the proposed method provides better forecasts of wind power.

Study on Technical Alternatives of Electricity Supply to Remote Islands and Inland (도서벽지 신재생 전력공급 기술적 대안분석)

  • Bae, Wi-Sup;Chung, Tae-Moon;Choi, Sung-Ho;Heo, Eun-Yeong;Cho, Dong-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.329-332
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    • 2006
  • 현행 농어촌전화촉진법에 의한 10호이상 도서전화사업이 2006년 말까지 완료될 예정임에 따라 전국적으로 43개에 달하는 10호미만 미전화유인도서 및 벽지지역에 대한 전화사업의 필요성이 제기되었다. 10호미만 도서지역의 전화사업을 위하여 도서전화사업의 기본취지인 전력정책의 보편공급목표를 달성하면서 사회적 경제적비용을 최소화할 수 있는 방법의 채택이 요구되었다 본 연구에서는 대부분의 도서지역이 채택하고 있는 기존의 디젤방식과 최근 활발한 보급이 이루어지고 있는 태양광 풍력 등 신재생에너지에 의한 발전방식의 기술적 옵션에 대한 타당성 분석을 실시하였다. 10호미만 도서지역과 5호미만 벽지지역에 디젤엔진과 태양광 등 신재생에너지를 보급할 경우 발생될 기술적, 경제적 비용의 분석을 실시하였으며 연구 결과 소규모 도서지역과 벽지에서는 태양광이 디젤엔진보다 경제적인 대안으로 판명되었다.

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Research and Development Trends of PV Thermal Combined Systems (PV Thermal 복합시스템의 국내외 연구 개발 동향)

  • Kim, Jin-Hee;Lee, Kang-Rock;Yang, Youn-Wan;Kim, Jun-Tae
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.588-592
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    • 2006
  • PV Thermal combined system produces the electricity and thermal energy which are needed for buildings. The system removes heat from PV module through air or liquid, so that its efficiency will be improved. The heat as the forms of hot air or hot water can be utilized for building use, like space heating and hot water. This paper describes the concept of PV Thermal combined system and its research and development trend at local and international levels. This materials can be used as a fundamental study source about PV Thermal combined system to apply fur building space heating.

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Wake Analysis of the HAWT by Windtunnel Test (실험을 통한 풍력발전기의 후류구조 분석)

  • Park, Ji-Woong;Kim, Ho-Geon;Shin, Hyung-Ki;Lee, Soo-Gab
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.273-276
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    • 2006
  • To generate electricity from wind energy, wind turbine generally has a rotor blade. Since this rotor blade is a kind of the rotating machinery, the wake from the rotor is very Important role in the side of the aerodynamic performances. Thus the study about wake is essential to analyze wind turbine aerodynamics. In this study wake characteristics are analyzed by hot-wire probe in the K.A.F.A(Korea Air Force Academy) wind tunnel. It is possible to analyze the wake characteristics by hot-wire probe from acquiring the velocity fluctuations at given positions in the flow. This velocity data are arranged by trigger signal at same azimuth of the blade in periodic manner of the rotor blade. From this various wake characteristics are found : radial and axial position of the tip vortex, vortex core characteristics in the flow etc.

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A Study on the Integrated Prefab Building Materials Depending on the Cooling Type of PV Module Backside (태양전지모듈 후면의 냉각조건에 따른 조립식 건축자재와 일체화에 관한 연구)

  • Yi, So-Mi;Lee, Yong-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.138-141
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    • 2006
  • The application of photovoltaics into building as integrated building components has been paid more attention worldwide. Photovoltaics or solar electric modules are solid state devices, directly converting solar radiation into electricity; the process does not require fuel and any moving parts, and produce no pollutants. And the prefab building method is very effective because the pre-manufactured building components is simply assembled to making up buildings in the construction fields especially the sandwich panel. So, the purpose of this research is to integrated prefab building materials depending on the cooling type of PV modules. It is concluded that the prediction of BIPV system's performance should be based on the more accurate PV module temperature. From the basis of these results on the correlation of temperature and irradiation were obtained.

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