On development of practical design tools for tidal stream turbines

Author

Hyun, B.S. ; Lee, J.K. ; Lee, D.H. ; Rhee, S.H. ; Park, S.W. ; Kim, M.C. ; Do, I.R. ; Cho, D.S. ; Seong, H.M.

Author_Institution

Div. Naval Archit. & Ocean Syst. Eng., Korea Maritime Univ., Busan, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

21-24 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

It is important to customize the tidal stream turbines at given environmental conditions and demand powers. In order to design turbine rotors effectively, the dedicated software was composed of standard design module and customized module as practical turbine design tools and was constructed by a framework using Visual C++ Library. Proposed standard design process can offer the desired specifications and drawings from the pre-constructed performance data of turbine series. It may be useful for public in initial design stage as well as for preliminary energy farm design. Customized design process can analyze the turbine performance using BEMT and DMS code. Present paper deals with the brief analysis and design of both Horizontal Axis Turbine(HAT) and Vertical Axis Turbine(VAT).

Keywords

hydraulic turbines; power system CAD; tidal power stations; BEMT code; DMS code; HAT design; VAT design; Visual C++ Library; customized design process; customized module; dedicated software; environmental condition; horizontal axis turbine design; practical turbine design tools; pre-constructed performance data; preliminary energy farm design; standard design module; standard design process; tidal stream turbines; turbine rotor design; turbine series; vertical axis turbine design; Blades; Computational fluid dynamics; Software; Standards; Wind farms; Wind turbines; BEMT; Customized design; DMS; HAT; Standard design; Tidal stream turbine; VAT;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS, 2012 - Yeosu

Conference_Location

Yeosu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2089-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS-Yeosu.2012.6263400

Filename

6263400