• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.81-92
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• 2008

In this study, the analysis results were presented for the experimental data of sluice for tidal power generation that were installed in an open channel flume. The experiment was carried out for the six different sluice models of different widths and bottom heights of the sluice throat section. If the side shape of the sluice was the same, the coefficient of discharge generally increased by increasing the width of the throat section. However, when the water discharge was small and the upstream water level was low, the coefficient of discharge increased for a while but decreased later with the increase of the throat section width. In addition, the coefficient of discharge was larger when the bottom height of the throat section was higher, regardless of the width of the throat section. It was concluded that the values of coefficient of discharge that were frequently used in the previous feasibility studies were underestimated so that should be adjusted to higher values.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.94-102
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• 2013

In this study, numerical modeling was performed to investigate influence of the apron shape on the discharge performance of the sluice for tidal power plant. The numerical modeling was carried out for comparison of the difference in the discharge coefficient when the apron width, slope, and the length of the horizontal section were different, without considering change in the shape of the sluice caisson itself. The modeling result showed that significant discrepancy in terms of the overall discharge performance appeared according to the apron geometry. In order to achieve maximum discharge performance of the sluice caisson, it is desirable to make the design by putting a space equivalent to the width of the sluice caisson on its both sides, by making the apron slope be 1:5, and by keeping length of the horizontal section to be 50 m that is corresponding to the streamwise length of the sluice caisson.

• 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.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.121-124
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• 2006

국내외에 아직 적용 실적이 없는 발전소의 해수방류수를 이용한 조류식발전시스템의 개발을 위하여 하동화력발전소 방수로에 시험용 조류식 발전시스템을 설계 및 제작하여 현장시험이 진행 중이며, 이를 확장하여 상업용 발전을 위한 총 개발 규모를 산정하고 경제성을 분석하였다. 조류식발전구조물의 형상 설계, 가이드 베인을 이용한 출력 조정을 통하여 방수로의 수류상태를 적절히 조절하여 설계하는 것이 가능할 것으로 판단되며, 조류식발전구조물 설치시 방수로의 수류특성 수치계산 결과로 판단할 때 발전출력에 의한 에너지 회수뿐만 아니라 조류식발전구조물의 단면축소 효과 및 수두손실이 방수로의 수위 변화에 상당한 규모로 영향을 주고 있음을 확인하였다. 조류식발전구조물 설치 이전의 유속 관측 결과를 이용하여 발전량을 산정한 경우 소수력발전 단가 적응시 경제성이 떨어지지만, 조류식발전시스템의 설치시 유속 증가 효과가 나타날 뿐만 아니라 가이드 베인 등을 이용하여 발전량 증대를 꾀하면 충분한 경제성을 확보할 수 있는 조류식발전시스템의 설치가 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.509-512
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• 2006

국내 대형 기력발전단지에서 냉각수로 사용되고 방류되는 해수는 약 150cms로 (100Mwe 당 약 5cms) 약 3,000kW 이상의 수력에너지를 보유하고 있으나, 현재 활용되지 못하고 그대로 해양으로 방류되고 있다. 발전소 방수로는 흐름조건이 비교적 균일하고, 파랑 내습이 없으며 부유사 해조류, 부유물 충돌 등의 문제가 발생하지 않아 자연 해양조건보다 조류력 발전에 매우 유리하나 수심이 낮고, 순환수 계통에의 영향으로 다수의 수차를 설치하기는 어려운 조건을 지니고 있다. 따라서, 인공수로의 균일하고 양호한 흐름조건에 적합한 보다 경제적인 수차를 개발하고, 발전량을 증대하기 위한 수차 배치 기술, 수차 및 발전기 지지구조물의 설계 기술, 계통 연결기술 등을 개발할 필요가 있으며, 이를 위하여 시험용 조류식 발전시스템을 제작하여 수차의 성능 및 전체 발전시스템의 성능을 평가하여 발생되는 문제점을 해결하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 시험용 조류식 발전시스템을 하동화력발전소 방수로에 적용하기 위하여 현장 특성 분석, 형식 선정, 발전량 산정 등의 시스템 설계를 수행하였다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.257-268
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• 2014

In this study, flow-driven rotor simulations with a given load are conducted to analyze the operational characteristics of a vertical-axis Darrieus turbine, specifically its self-starting capability and fluctuations in its torque as well as the RPM. These characteristics are typically observed in experiments, though they cannot be acquired in simulations with a given tip speed ratio (TSR). First, it is shown that a flow-driven rotor simulation with a two-dimensional (2D) turbine model obtains power coefficients with curves similar to those obtained in a simulation with a given TSR. 3D flow-driven rotor simulations with an optimal geometry then show that a helical-bladed turbine has the following prominent advantages over a straight-bladed turbine of the same size: an improvement of its self-starting capabilities and reduced fluctuations in its torque and RPM curves as well as an increase in its power coefficient from 33% to 42%. Therefore, it is clear that a flow-driven rotor simulation provides more information for the design of a Darrieus turbine than a simulation with a given TSR before experiments.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.48-54
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• 2020

Numerical analysis was carried out to analyze the flow fields and mechanical output of a rotor for various positions and inlet flow rates in a shroud, and it was compared with experimental data. Rotor and seawater current largely affects the flow field characteristics in the shroud system. Especially the mechanical output of the rotor increased with axial position near the center of the cylinder, and it gradually decreased close to the entrance and exit. Also, the rotor output increased with the inlet velocity. Axial and angular momentum of flow along the cylinder region rapidly increased and reached a peak, and then decreased as it passed through the rotor, while there was no significant change in the cylinder region. It is expected that these results can be used as applicable design data for the development of the tidal power generation system.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2010.09a
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• pp.504-511
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• 2010

After facing the fact such as fossil-fuel depletion, global warming, the Kyoto Protocol coming into force of mandatory reductions of carbon dioxide, the world is actively promoting the spread of the solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and other clean renewable energy technology development. Among them, wind power is the only alternative energy to secure a comparable price competition with fossil fuels because cheaper price power generation than other renewable energy when creating large-scale wind farm, thus wind power is the fastest growing industries in the world in the renewable energy field. Especially the offshore wind power is showing rapid growth as most of the wind power sector because of less changes of wind speed, no restrictions of land use, and large-scale development of offshore wind power. In this paper, the field of site selection and spatial location analysis techniques for development of large-scale offshore wind farm are discussed primarily. This paper shows overview of offshore wind power and establishment procedure for development of offshore wind farm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2005.09b
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• pp.1355-1355
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• 2005