• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.50-57
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• 2009

Heliostat in the tower type solar thermal power plant is a mirror system tracking the sun's movement to collect the solar energy and it is the most important subsystem determining the efficiency of solar thermal power plant. Thus a good performance of it, which is mostly the accurate sun tracking performance under the various hazardous operating condition, is required. Heliostat control system is a system to manage the heliostat sun tracking movement and other operations. It also communicates with the master controller through the heliostat filed control system to receive and send the informations required to operate the heliostat as a part of the solar thermal power plant. This study presents a heliostat control system designed and developed for the 1MW solar thermal power plant. We first define the functionality of heliostat control system. Then sun tracking controller as well as the sun tracking algorithm satisfying the required functionality have been developed. We tested the developed heliostat control system and it showed a good performance in regulation of heliostat motion and communication.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2014

As the environmental regulations is more strengthened, the study of the renewable energy system and waste heat for electricity production is being accelerated. In this study, the performance and power generation rate of solar power generation by using R134a Rankine cycle was analyzed with solar radiation and mass flow rate of R134a. As a result, the maximum and minimum collected heat of solar collector was 20.4 kW and 13.6 kW at October and December, respectively. Besides, the highest generator power was generated at October and it was 0.91 kW/day, while the lowest generator power is occurred at December and it was about 0.85 kW/day.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.9-27
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• 2021

Floating solar power markets are rapidly growing worldwide. The main policy instrument utilized to expand renewable energy use in foreign countries with many floating solar power installations is Feed-in-Tariffs (FITs). Foreign countries apply FIT to projects that have a secured grid connection, and lately, there has been a change in the direction of introducing or expanding auction systems. Vietnam and Taiwan give higher FIT to floating solar installations than land solar ones, and China, Vietnam, and Taiwan have higher FITs for certain regions. Compared to foreign countries where large-scale floating solar power installations have been installed, Korea has utilized Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) weights for residents' participation are provided additionally under the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS). In contrast to Korea, where residents' participation and benefit profit sharing are emphasized, the Netherlands provides opportunities for local residents to participate in floating solar power projects through cooperatives to improve the residents' acceptance.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.80-88
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• 2011

Heliostat in the tower type solar thermal power plant is a sun tracking mirror system to reflect the solar energy to the receiver and the optical performance of it affects to the efficiency of whole power plant most significantly. Thus a solid understanding of heliostat's energy concentration characteristics is the most important step in designing of the heliostat field and the whole power plant. The work presented here is the analysis of energy concentration characteristics of heliostat used in 200kW solar thermal power plant, where the receiver located at 43m high in tower has $2{\times}2$m rectangular shape. The heliostat reflective surface is formed by 4 of $1{\times}1$m flat plate mirror facet and the mirror facet is mounted on the spherical frame. The direct normal incident radiation models in vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox and winter solstice are first derived from the actually measured data. Then the intercept ratio, heat flux distribution and total energy collected at the receiver for the heliostats located in the various places of the heliostat field are investigated. Finally the effect of mirror facet installation error on the optical performance of the heliostat is analyzed.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2014

전 세계적으로 석유자원의 고갈로 인해 석유가격의 상승 및 중국, 인도 등 거대개도국의 에너지 수요 폭발로 국내외 에너지환경은 새로운 도전과 변화의 국면에 처해 있다. 그러나 태양광 발전은 기존 발전방식에 비하여 발전 단가가 높고 에너지 밀도가 희박하여 일정한 전력을 이용하기 위해서는 넓은 면적의 태양전지모율 설치 장소가 필요하다. 또한 기상조건 및 자연조건에 절대적인 영향을 받기 때문에 태양광 발전의 효율적인 발전을 위해서는 지리적인 위치와 태양의 위치 등을 고려하여 태양전지모듈이 지속적으로 많은 양의 발전을 할 수 있게 하는 기술이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 기존 추적 시스템의 문제점을 해결하기 위해 새로운 형태의 태양 추적 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 또한 제안된 기법의 유용성을 확인하기 위해 제작된 시제품에 알고리즘을 구현하여 실제 실험을 수행하고자 한다.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2011

Heliostat in the tower type solar thermal power plant is a sun tracking mirror system to reflect the solar energy to the receiver and the optical performance of it affects to the efficiency of whole power plant most significantly. Thus a proper design of structure of the heliostat reflective surface could be the most important step in the construction of such power plant. The work presented here is a design of structure of optical surface of heliostat, which will be used in 200kW solar thermal power plant. The receiver located at 43(m) high from ground in tower has $2{\times}2$(m) rectangular shape. We first developed the software tool to simulate the energy concentration characteristics of heliostat using the ray tracing technique. Then, the shape of heliostat reflective surface is designed with the consideration of heliostat's energy concentration characteristics, production cost and productivity. The designed heliostat's reflective surface has a structure formed by canting four of $1{\times}1$(m) rectangular flat plate mirror facet and the center of each mirror facet is located on the spherical surface, where the spherical surface is formulated by the mirror facet mounting frame.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.334-337
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• 2019

현재 계속해서 늘어나는 에너지 수요량에 대해 세계적으로 화석연료를 대체할 차세대 에너지의 연구개발이 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 그 중, 무한정, 무공해의 태양에너지를 사용하는 태양광 발전 시스템의 비중이 커지고 있지만, 일사량에 따른 발전량 편차가 심해 안정된 전력공급이 어렵고 전력 생산량 자체가 지역별 일사량에 의존하는 문제가 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 실제의 지역별 일사량, 강수량, 온도, 습도 등의 기상데이터를 수집하여 로직 기반의 퍼지 뉴럴 네트워크를 이용한 태양광 발전 출력 예측 시스템을 제안하였다.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.42-46
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• 2018

The flow and heat transfer characteristics inside a solar chimney power plant system are analyzed in this article. 3-D model with the $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence closure was developed. In this model, to solve the radiative transfer equation the discrete ordinates radiation model was implemented, using a two-band radiation model. To simulate radiation effects from the sun's rays, the solar ray tracing algorithm was coupled to the calculation via a source term in the energy equation. Simulations were carried out for a system with the geometry parameters of the Manzanares power plant. Based on the numerical results, the velocity and temperature distributions were illustrated and the results were validated by comparing with experimental data of the Manzanares prototype power plant. Moreover, temperature profile of the ground surface of the system was illustrated.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2019

Design of an electric power system on the solar-electric vehicle is very important because sunlight intensity is changed by weather conditions and road environments. Power output of solar module on the vehicle being changed by unsteady sunlight intensity. In this paper, design method of an electric power system are proposed to generate steady electric power output. The test results shows the electric power system are effective because the solar-electric vehicle have steady driving speed under unsteady sunlight conditions.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.67-71
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• 2017

저궤도 인공위성은 전기 에너지 원으로 주로 태양전지 배열기를 사용한다. 태양전지 배열기는 인공위성이 식구간에 들어가면 전기 에너지를 발생시키지 못하므로, 식구간에서는 배터리가 인공위성에 전기 에너지를 공급한다. 또한 태양전지 배열기는 동작 전압에 따라 출력하는 전력이 변하며, 최대 전력을 출력하는 최대전력점이 존재한다. 일광구간에서 태양전지 배열기가 최대전력을 출력하여 위성에 전기 에너지를 공급하고 남은 에너지로 배터리를 충전할 수 있도록 태양전력 조절기기가 필요하다. 태양전력 조절기의 입력에는 태양전지 배열기가 연결되고, 출력에는 배터리가 연결된다. 태양전력 조절기는 안정적인 동작을 위해 2 of 3 Hot Redundant로 동작한다. 즉, 3개의 DC-DC 컨버터가 하나의 태양전력 조절기를 구성하며, 이 DC-DC 컨버터 하나가 고장이 발생하더라도 태양전력 조절기는 안정적으로 동작한다. 본 논문에서는 태양전력 조절기 동작 중 DC-DC 컨버터의 제어기에 고장이 발생한 순간 태양전력 조절기가 어떻게 동작하는지 분석하고, 배터리와 태양전지 배열기에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가에 대하 분석한다.