• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권8호
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• pp.704-709
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• 2016

Wave energy generation systems can be divided into oscillating water chamber type, over topping device type and wave activating body type. The wave activating body type converts wave energy to kinetic energy, and the power generation amount increases as the motion of an activating body increases. In this paper, the wave energy convertor consists of a main body, which has an H-shape, and the activating body. These are connected by a bar-type bridge. By the incident wave, when the activating body moves with vertical motion this motion is consequently converted into rotational motion. The twisting moment and angular velocity at a shaft of convertor are calculated according to various conditions of the incident wave and the shape of the activating body. This can be used as a basic idea for determining the design of wave activating body type convertor.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2014년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.17-18
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• 2014

파력발전기의 유형은 진동수주형, 월파형, 가동물체형으로 나누어진다. 그 중 가동물체형은 파도에너지를 기계적 운동에너지로 전환하여 발전하기 때문에 가동물체의 운동량이 증가해야 발전량이 증가 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 가동물체형 파력발전기를 발전시스템이 있는 구조물 본체와 가동부유체로 구성하고 바 형태의 다리로 연결하였다. 다양한 정면파 조건에서 가동부유체와 구조물 본체 간 연결 방식 변화에 따른 운동 특성을 연구하고, 발전축의 모멘트와 각속도를 계산하였다. 이 연구는 가동물체형 파력발전기의 설계시 기초 자료로 사용 될 수 있다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.244-255
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• 2019

Interest in renewable energy has been increasing in recent years for many reasons, and there have been many studies on new types of wave energy converters and mechanisms for them. However, in this paper, motion characteristics of a wave energy converter with a wave activating body type is studied with an experiment. In order to conduct the experiment, a simple wave activating body type's wave energy converter is proposed. Experimental variations consist of connection type and location. The connection type controls the rotation motions of structures, and the connection location controls the distance between structures. The movement of floating structures, such as rotation, velocity, and acceleration, is measured with a potentiometer and a motion capture camera. Using the recorded data, the motion characteristics derived from the experimental variations are investigated.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.103-107
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• 2013

The structure of a variable liquid column oscillator(a VLCO) is analogous to that of the tuned liquid column damper used to suppress oscillatory motion in large structures like tall buildings and cargo ships. The VLCO is a system absorbing high kinetic energy of accelerated motions of multiple floating bodies in the effect of air springs occurred by installation of inner air chambers. Thus, VLCO can improve the efficiency of energy than wave energy converters of the activating object type made in Pelamis Company. In this research, the experiment was performed that a simple floating body was filled with internal fluid of same draft. The characteristics of motions were evaluated in each case of the opening or closing of the upper valves.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.16-21
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• 2014

The structure of the variable liquid column oscillator(VLCO) is analogous to that of the tuned liquide column damper used to suppress oscillatory motion in large structures like tall buildings and cargo ships. VLCO is the technology to absorb high potential energy made by process of accelerated motions to occur the effect of an air spring by installation of inner air chamber. So, the application of VLCO can obtain to improve efficiency of energy than wave energy converters made in Pelamis Company. In this research, the experiments were carried out for the motion characteristics of simple floating body by varying the amount of internal fluid. The experimental results were compared with the calculated results.