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Comparative Study on Horizontal Axis Turbine(HAT) Impeller Design (HAT 임펠러 설계 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Moon-Chan;Shin, Byung-Chul;Lee, Ju-Hyun;Rhee, Shin-Hyung;Hyun, Beom-Soo;Nam, Jong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.105-111
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    • 2010
  • The present study deals with the investigation about the improvement of the design of tidal stream turbine blade (HAT) in comparison with wind turbine blade because the parameters of tidal stream turbine blade has been mostly derived from wind turbines. As such, there is plenty of room for improvement of the HAT impeller blade design. Comparisons have been done between the newly designed and existing impeller computationally. Similar comparisons will also be made for the experimental results in the near future.

The Analysis of Chloride Penetration at Concrete and Repair Material under Tidal and Splash Zone (조간대와 비말대의 콘크리트와 보수재의 염분침투 특성분석)

  • Lee, Joon-Gu;Cho, Young-Kwoun;Kim, Meyong-Won;Kim, Kwan-Ho;Joo, Jae-Hong;Kim, Han-Joung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.207-208
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    • 2010
  • The building that supply tidal and splash zone was constructed near Seamangeum Gate Bridge. The specimens that will be tested for maintenance of gate bridge were exposed on the tidal and splash zone, totally about 650. The characteristics of strength, salt penetration profile, field application of surface repair material and section recover material will be acquired by periodical test. The program was developed to obtain optimal maintenance strategy of gate bridge as a marine concrete structure and to deposit experimental data, lab. test result, field test result, on its D/B. On this paper, the comparison of concrete and recover material in the salt penetration characteristics was expressed. The quantitative analysis of salt contents in concrete surface was most important so the improvement for the machine of gathering power of concrete and the apparatus of measuring chloride contents was proceeded at this time. The two conclusions were summarized like as - The resistance of chloride attack of concrete was appeared 2.5 times bigger than that of recover material - The resistance of chloride attack of polymer series was appeared more higher than that of others.

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Effect of the density profile of a star on the bolometric light curve in tidal disruption events

  • Park, Gwanwoo;Kimitake, Hayasaki
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.56.1-56.1
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    • 2018
  • Tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide evidence for quiescent supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centers of inactive galaxies. TDEs occur when a star on a parabolic orbit approaches close enough to a SMBH to be disrupted by the tidal force of the SMBH. The subsequent super-Eddington accretion of stellar debris falling back to the SMBH produces a characteristic flare lasting several months. The theoretically expected bolometric light curve decays with time as proportional to $t^{-5/3}$. However, the light curves observed in most of the optical-UV TDEs deviate from the $t^{-5/3}$ decay rate especially at early time, while the light curves of some soft-X-ray TDEs are overall in good agreement with the $t^{-5/3}$ law. Therefore, it is required to construct the theoretical model for explaining these light curve variations consistently. In this paper, we revisit the mass fallback rates analytically and semi-analytically by taking account of the structure of the star, which is simply modeled by the polytrope. We find the relation between a polytropic index and the power law index of the mass fallback rate. We also discuss whether and how the decay curves, which we derived, fit the observed ones.

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Numerical and experimental investigation on the performance of three newly designed 100 kW-class tidal current turbines

  • Song, Mu-Seok;Kim, Moon-Chan;Do, In-Rok;Rhee, Shin-Hyung;Lee, Ju-Hyun;Hyun, Beom-Soo
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.241-255
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    • 2012
  • Three types of 100 kW-class tidal stream turbines are proposed and their performance is studied both numerically and experimentally. Following a wind turbine design procedure, a base blade is derived and two additional blades are newly designed focusing more on efficiency and cavitation. For the three designed turbines, a CFD is performed by using FLUENT. The calculations predict that the newly designed turbines perform better than the base turbine and the tip vortex can be reduced with additional efficiency increase by adopting a tip rake. The performance of the turbines is tested in a towing tank with 700 mm models. The scale problem is carefully investigated and the measurements are compared with the CFD results. All the prediction from the CFD is supported by the model experiment with some quantitative discrepancy. The maximum efficiencies are 0.49 (CFD) and 0.45 (experiment) at TSR 5.17 for the turbine with a tip rake.

Monitoring of Tidal Sand Shoal with a Camera Monitoring System and its Morphologic Change (카메라를 활용한 조석사주 관측시스템 구축 및 지형변화)

  • Lee, Soong-Ji;Lee, Guan-Hong;Kang, Tae-Soon;Kim, Young-Taeg;Kim, Tea-Lim
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.326-333
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    • 2015
  • A tidal sandshoal, called 'Puldeung' in the Daeijackdo Marine Protected Area(DMPA), is facing erosion due to sand mining in the nearby coastal region. To monitor the morphologic change and erosion of Puldeung, a camera monitoring system was established at the top of Song-Ee Mountain in Daeijack Island. The system consists of 2 Cannon digital cameras, Eye-fi memory card/Long-Term Evolution wireless network, and solar power supply. The acquired camera images were analyzed to obtain the area of Puldeung by the following methods: geometric correction of image, identification of shoreline, areal measurement of Puldeung and its error estimation. To compare the Puldeung area with previously measured area of 1.79 km2 at tidal height of 137 cm in 2008 and of 1.59 km2 at tidal height of 148 cm in 2010, we selected images with same tidal heights. The Puldeung area was 1.37 and 1.23 km2 at the tidal height of 137 and 148 cm, respectively. The erosion at DMPA is very severe and thus it is imperative to initiate the morphodynamical study on the seasonal variation and long-term evolution of Puldeung as well as the causes and measures of Puldeung erosion.

A Study on Hydro Energy Development of Discharged Cooling Water at the Power Plant (발전소 온배수의 수력에너지 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, K.S.;Lee, D.S.;Kim, J.Y.
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.12a
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    • pp.813-818
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    • 2005
  • Cooling seawater of thermal power plant which amounts about 5 cms per 100 MWe has hydro energy of about 3,000 kW at the thermal power plant complex, but this useful hydro energy has not been developed. Therefore, the feasibility study on hydro energy development of three power plants located in the southern and western coast of Korea was performed. Three target power plants are Samcheonpo, Boryeong and Hadong thermal power plant. The design head to discharge cooling water by gravity and the head caused by tidal level in the southwestern coastal area, could be used for the production of electric power. The various alternatives were studied and technical feasibility and economical efficiency were clearly proved.

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Sample Size Determination for the Estimation of Population Density of Marine Benthos on a Tidal Flat and a Subtidal Area, Korea

  • Koh, Chul-Hwan;Kang, Seong-Gil
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.113-122
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    • 1998
  • The requisite numbers of sample replicates for the population study of soft-bottom benthos were estimated from survey data on the Songdo tidal flat and subtidal zone in Youngil Bay, Korea. Large numbers of samples were taken; two-hundred-fifty 0.02 m$^2$ box corers and fifty 0.1m$^2$ van Veen grabs were taken on the Songdo tidal flat and in Youngil Bay, respectively. The effect of sampler size on sampling efforts was investigated by pooling the unit samples in pairs, fours, eights, etc. The requisite number of sample replicates (n$_r$) was determined by sample variance (s$^2$) and mean (m) function (n$_r$:s$^2$/P$^2$m$^2$), at P=0.2 level, in which s$^2$ and m were calculated from the counts of individuals collected. For example, seven samples of 0.02 m$^2$ corer for the intertidal and two samples of 0.1 m$^2$ van Veen grab for subtidal fauna were required to estimate the total density of community. The smaller sampler size was more efficient than larger ones when sampling costs were compared on the basis of the total sampling area. The requisite number of sample replicates was also predicted ($\^{n}$n$_r$) by substituting $\^{s}$$^2$ obtained from the regression of s$^2$ against m using the Taylor's power law ($\^{s}$$^2$:am$^b$). The regression line of survey data on s$^2$ and m plotted on log scale was well fitted to the Taylor's power law (r$^2$${\geq}$0.95, p<;0.001) over the whole range of m. The exponent b was, however, varied when it was estimated from m which was categorized into classes by its scale. The fitted exponent b was large when both density class and the sampler size were large. The number of sample replicates, therefore, could be more significantly estimated, if regression coefficients (a and b) would be calculated from sample variance and mean categorized into density classes.

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A Numerical Study on Tip Rake HAT Impeller Performance for Tidal Stream Power (조류발전용 팁 레이크 HAT 임펠러 성능 수치해석 연구)

  • Shin, Byung-Chul;Kim, Moon-Chan;Do, In-Rok;Rhee, Shin-Hyung;Hyun, Beom-Soo;Song, Mu-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.263-269
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    • 2010
  • The present study deals with the investigation about the improvement of performance of tidal stream turbine blade (HAT) with tip rake. HAT impeller has sometimes experienced noise and vibration by Tip vortex which causes even erosion and severe efficiency loss to the blade, The newly proposed tip rake impeller can make the tip vortex week compared with a normal impeller by preventing the three dimensional effect at tip region. In order to find out the optimum rake impeller, three cases have been designed and the performance of the designed rake impellers has been validated by the commercial CFD code(Fluent). The efficiency of optimized rake impeller was up to 4.6% higher than the conventional impeller. The more parametric study for high efficiency and good cavitation performance is expected to be conducted in a near future.