全球海水温差能的开发利用大有可为

在全球1.45×10~(10)亿吨的海水中,每年吸收的太阳能约在37×10~(10)亿千瓦以上,每平方公里的海洋所含有的热能大大超过360吨石油所产生的能量。据估算,世界海洋的海水温差能达500亿千瓦,可供利用的为20亿千瓦。我国南海地处热带和亚热带,可利用的海水温差能约1.5亿千瓦。如此巨大的能量资源,既可再生,又无污染,又不占用宝贵的陆地,还可进行综合利用,因此开发利用海水温差能早就引起     

国内外海洋温差能发电技术最新进展及发展建议

国际社会对能源安全、生态环境保护及应对气候变化等问题日益重视,加快开发利用海洋能已成为世界沿海国家和地区的普遍共识。海洋温差能因其"可持续24 h无间歇发电、清洁无污染"等特点受到各国青睐,纷纷通过制定中长期发展路线和布局以推动海洋温差能技术发展。文中对温差能开发利用技术进展情况进行了总结归纳,对比了国外已建项目的技术特点,重点对近年来国外海洋温差能开发利用技术最新进展进行总结,对海洋温差能发展趋势及前景进行展望,并结合实际情况对我国开展海洋温差能开发利用技术提出建议。     

单工质朗肯循环海洋温差能发电系统优化研究

为了获得海洋温差下朗肯循环系统的最高净输出,对27℃温海水、5℃冷海水条件下,25～23℃蒸发温度、5～9℃冷凝温度之间各工况的朗肯循环进行了理论分析和数值模拟,得到了系统效率与蒸发温度、冷凝温度之间的变化规律,以及不同温差和换热端差下净输出、循环海水流量、换热器换热面积等因素的变化规律,结果表明随着蒸发温度的下降和冷凝温度的升高系统的效率相应的得到了提高,在一定的温差下系统有最佳的净输出。上述研究对温差能发电系统的工况选取及优化具有良好的实用性和指导意义。     

海洋温差能发电技术的现状与前景

对海洋温差能发电技术的基本原理、类型、系统与装置、发展历史和现状作了全面的综述。介绍了国内外海洋温差发电技术的特点、难点和近期的研究热点,指出海洋温差发电技术必须与附属产品的开发利用相结合才能有竞争力,海洋温差发电技术要达到规模产业化还有相当长的路要走。     

一种高效海洋温差能发电循环的性能分析

海洋温差能是一种环境友好型、可持续利用的清洁能源,但是较低的海洋温差能发电系统效率阻碍了海洋温差能发电的商业化应用。提出一种新式循环,采用氨水混合工质,以及贫氨溶液回热和中间抽汽回热方式,实现对贫氨溶液及乏汽的热量二次回收利用。基于能量守恒方程和热力学定律,通过对循环中各设备部分建模分析,构建了新循环的热力模型,并与海洋温差能发电常用循环——朗肯循环进行性能对比分析,结果表明,新循环的热效率与净输出功相比朗肯循环均有显著提高,循环热效率最高可达4.565%,相较朗肯循环提高了25.9%。15 kW等级海洋温差能发电系统中,新循环的净输出功为7.038 kW,高于朗肯循环中的5.343 kW。新循环模型的建立及由此得到的各部分性能分析结果,可为海洋温差能商业化开发提供基础数据理论支撑。     

极地冰基浮标温差能转换技术仿真研究

为了解决北极海域海洋观测与通讯导航节点浮标的供电问题,提出利用北极海域冰面上冷空气与冰下海水之间的温差能转换为电能,为冰基浮标供电。根据北极温差的时空分布特性与冰基浮标的应用场景,提出了一种基于有机朗肯循环的冰基浮标温差能发电系统,并对其进行了建模与仿真分析。根据5 种工质的热力循环性能计算结果,确定R124 工质作为系统的循环工质。仿真结果表明：温差能发电系统在北极冬季两个月的总发电量为745 kWh,相当于3.72 t 能量密度为200 Wh/kg 的锂电池。因此,北极海域温差能转换发电系统能输出相当可观的功率与电能,显著提升冰基浮标的供能水平,提高其观测能力,延长其持续工作时间,减少破冰船对其的维护频率,从而打造冰下观测网络的关键节点,支撑北极冰下移动观测网络的构建。     

海水温差能发电系统两种循环方式的比较研究

对混合式海水温差能发电系统的两种循环形式进行了对比分析。建立了两种OTEC发电系统的数学模型,并进行数值模拟。结果表明前者偏重于淡水的生产,后者主要用于发电。     

10MW海洋温差发电系统热力学分析

受专利保护和技术封锁的制约,海洋温差能发电关键技术及设备国产化问题亟待解决。以建造大型温差能发电平台为背景,通过建立朗肯循环OTEC发电系统仿真模型,对比分析R717、R13a和R600工质发电系统性能参数,探索装机规模对热效率和单位换热面积发电量的影响,为大型OTEC发电系统建造提供理论依据和技术支持。结果表明:R717系统在蒸发器和冷凝器热负荷以及工质方面均优于R134a和R600系统。相同装机功率下,R717工质的循环和系统热效率均最大。增加装机规模有助于提升系统的热效率和单位换热面积发电量。R717系统热效率最大,单位换热面积发电量在合适的范围内,是海洋温差发电系统较为理想的循环工质。     

海洋温差能系统效率研究综述

海洋温差较小造成系统效率偏低,因此,提高海洋温差能发电系统的效率显得尤为重要。影响海洋温差能系统效率的因素较多,通过对热力循环和温、冷换热系统以及透平、工质泵、温、冷海水泵等动力装置对系统效率的影响系统性地分析,研究结果表明,提高海洋温差能系统效率可采用的途径有：采用非共沸工质热力循环,减少热力循环的不可逆热损失;采用中间抽气、贫氨溶液热能梯次回收充分利用热力循环系统内的热能,采用液力透平对热力循环内的动能进行再利用;优化温、冷海水与工质热交换温差,降低温、冷海水泵的能耗;考虑透平、工质泵和温、冷海水泵的型线和构造形式对设备自身效率的影响;采用有一定保温性能和摩阻较小的有机材质管道。     

新型海洋温差能回热循环热力学分析

针对海洋温差能可利用温差小,利用效率低的问题,本文提出了一种采用非共沸混合工质的新型海洋温差能回热循环,并基于热力学定律对提出的热力循环进行热力学分析。选取蒸发压力、工质的质量分数作为变量,对提出的热力循环进行热力学分析研究。研究结果表明：以工质质量分数为变量时,循环热效率和系统净输出随蒸发压力的增加先增大后减小,系统热效率在工质质量分数为0.91时取得最大值5.28%,净输出功在浓度为0.96时取得最大值3.83 kW。以蒸发压力为变量时,循环热效率和系统净输出随工质质量分数的增大先增大后减小,系统热效率在蒸发压力为0.595 MPa时取得最大值5.26%,净输出功在压力为0.58 MPa时取得最大值3.57 kW。在相同运行控制参数下与Uehara循环、Yoon循环进行对比,提出的循环系统热效率最佳。提出的热力循环系统分析结果可对提高海洋温差能利用效率提供理论依据和参考。     

Revisiting ocean thermal energy conversion

Increasing concerns regarding oil spills, air pollution, and climate change associated with fossil fuel use have increased the urgency of the search for renewable, clean sources of energy. This assessment describes the potential of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) to produce not only clean energy but also potable water, refrigeration, and aquaculture products. Higher oil prices and recent technical advances have improved the economic and technical viability of OTEC, perhaps making this technology more attractive and feasible than in the past. Relatively high capital costs associated with OTEC may require the integration of energy, food, and water production security in small island developing states (SIDSs) to improve cost-effectiveness. Successful implementation of OTEC at scale will require the application of insights and analytical methods from economics, technology, materials engineering, marine ecology, and other disciplines as well as a subsidized demonstration plant to provide operational data at near-commercial scales.     

An estimate of Atlantic Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) resources

An interhemispheric box model of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) is modified by replacing the tropical box with two vertically resolved sub-domains. Seawater flows from large-scale ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) are allowed in one of the tropical sub-domains. Under present conditions and standardized OTEC operations, steady-state net power production density would reach a maximum of about 80 kW/km² (corresponding to 1.8 TW) with a cold seawater withdrawal per unit area of about 14 m/yr. This maximum reflects the impact of large OTEC flows on the oceanic thermal structure, although the THC would not be significantly affected. It is larger than a recently suggested worldwide value of the order of 30 kW/km² because of the relative strength of the Atlantic THC. Under asymmetric high-latitude warming scenarios potentially representative of current climatic trends, a substantial weakening or a reversal of the THC are possible. In the former case, recoverable OTEC resources could practically vanish. In the latter case, the emergence of a stronger reverse THC eventually could boost OTEC resources. Such events are hypothetical and would unfold over centuries, but the mere possibility of their occurrence challenges the accepted notion that OTEC resources are forever renewable.     

Stability based approach to design cold-water pipe (CWP) for ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC)

Cold-water pipe (CWP) is a novel, most-challenging component of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) floating structure which is installed to transport the deep seawater to the board. For commercial scale, the transported seawater flow rate will be in the order of 10² m³/s. This large amount of internal flow may trigger instability which leads to the failure of CWP. Considering this issue, the present paper aims to design commercial-scale OTEC CWP focusing on the effects of internal flow to the stability of the pipe. The design analysis is deliberated to select the pipe material, top joint configuration (fixed, flexible, pinned) and bottom supporting system (with and without clump weight). Initially, the analytical solution is built by taking into account the components of the pipe dynamics. Separately, a fully coupled fluid-structure interaction analysis between the pipe and the ambient fluid is carried out using ANSYS interface. Using scale models, the results obtained from the analytical solution are compared with the ones from numerical analysis to examine the feasibility of the analytical solution. After being verified, the analytical solution is used to observe the dynamic behavior of the CWP for 100 MW-net OTEC power plant in the full-scale model. The results yield conclusions that pinned connection at the top joint is preferable to decrease the applied stress, clump weight installation is necessary to reduce the motion displacement and Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) is the most suitable material among the examined materials.     

海洋温差能开发特点及其对生态环境的影响方式

根据海洋温差能转换(OTEC)工艺过程的特点,分析了海洋温差能开发对海洋生态环境的特殊影响。认为大流量吸排水形成的大尺度水团在海洋中的重新分布,致使厂址周边海水的层化结构和环流结构以及海水盐度、溶解氧和营养水平等参数发生变化,进而对海洋环境造成很大改变,形成了OTEC技术特殊的环境影响方式。还着重分析了羽状流对初级生产力的影响,以及卷载和冲击对海洋生物的影响,分析归纳了海洋温差能开发生态环境影响的关键评价因子,对下一步的研究重点提出了建议。为未来开展洋温差能开发以及全面评价海洋温差能开发造成的生态环境影响提供技术参考。     

海洋温差能发电装置中冷水管动力性能分析

不考虑波浪、海流以及平台运动的作用,研究管内流动对冷水管动力性能的影响。基于悬臂输液管道梁模型,通过轴向流速比α、流速角比ψ和切向流速比φ三个进流口流场参数描述自由端边界条件,获得冷水管在内流作用下的控制方程。从流体动力项对管道做功的角度分析发现,φ对管道失稳的临界流速有很大的影响,并且φ=0被认为是对进流口流场的正确描述;然而,通过Galerkin法分析发现,φ=0的进流口流场模型不能解释进流口压降Δp对动态失稳基本没有影响的试验现象。相反,φ≠0的进流口流场模型在使得进流口压降Δp的影响几乎为零的同时,还能够获得较大的临界流速,与Kuiper观察的试验现象相符。切向流速比φ的正确评估是准确预测临界流速的前提条件。     

基于两种半分析算法的水体吸收系数反演

本文基于42组不同年份不同季节获得的遥感反射率、水体各组分吸收系数的实测数据,对QAA（Quasi-Analytical Algorithm）和GSM（Garver-Siegel-Maritorena）算法在寡营养的南海和富营养的福建沿岸两种不同类型水体的吸收系数反演进行了检验。以水样测量值为参考,两种算法在本研究水体中的反演成效与他人在其它水域的研究结果相当。QAA算法在南海的反演成效高于福建沿岸水体。对于443 nm的总吸收系数（a443 ）,南海的对数均方根误差（RMSE ）为0.046,平均相对误差为7.9%,对数平均偏差为0;福建沿岸水体的对数均方根误差（RMSE ）为0.194,平均相对误差为30.6%,对数平均偏差为-0.167 。GSM算法在两类水体的反演成效类似,A443 之RMSE和平均相对误差,南海分别为0.161和27.7%,福建沿岸分别为0.149和32.1%,但从A443的对数平均偏差值看,其在南海反演值低于实测值（对数平均偏差为-0.142 ）,在福建沿岸则略呈高于实测值（对数平均偏差为0.016）。两种算法中的部分经验参数与实测值之间的差异是产生反演误差的主要原因,为了提高反演精度,对算法中经验参数的更进一步区域化调整可能是必要的。     

Effect of Langmuir circulation on upper ocean mixing in the South China Sea

Effect of Langmuir circulation (LC) on upper ocean mixing is investigated by a two-way wave-current coupled model. Themodel is coupled of the ocean circulationmodel ROMS (regional ocean modeling system) to the surface wave model SWAN (simulating waves nearshore) via the model-coupling toolkit. The LC already certified its importance by many one-dimensional (1D) research andmechanismanalysis work. This work focuses on inducing LC’s effect in a three-dimensional (3-D) model and applying it to real field modeling. In ROMS, theMellor-Yamada turbulence closuremixing scheme is modified by including LC’s effect. The SWAN imports bathymetry, free surface and current information fromthe ROMS while exports significant wave parameters to the ROMS for Stokes wave computing every 6 s. This coupled model is applied to the South China Sea (SCS) during September 2008 cruise. The results show that LC increasing turbulence and deepening mixed layer depth (MLD) at order of O (10 m) in most of the areas, especially in the north part of SCS where most of our measurements operated. The coupled model further includes wave breaking which will bringsmore energy into water. When LC works together with wave breaking,more energy is transferred into deep layer and accelerates the MLD deepening. In the north part of the SCS, their effects aremore obvious. This is consistent with big wind event in the area of the Zhujiang River Delta. The shallow water depth as another reasonmakes themeasy to influence the oceanmixing as well.     

不考虑局地引潮势的南海正压潮能通量与潮能耗散

利用ECOM模式模拟南海正压M2、S2、K1、O1分潮, 对南海潮能通量及潮能耗散进行研究.结果显示, M2、S2、K1和O1分潮分别有38.93、5.77、29.73和28.97GW的能通量经吕宋海峡传入南海, 并有2.42、0.36、8.67和7.86GW的能通量由南海经卡里马塔海峡传入爪哇海.由东海及吕宋海峡西北部传入台湾海峡的M2分潮能通量为25.28GW.半日潮进入北部湾和泰国湾的能通量较少(6.52GW), 全日潮则较大(24.74GW).通过民都洛和巴拉巴克海峡断面, 全日潮由南海向苏禄海共输送12.28GW的能通量, 而半日潮则由苏禄海向南海输送1.92GW的能通量.由模式输出结果估计得到的南海各局部海域的底摩擦耗散与净潮能通量存在差异, 为使二者平衡, 可对南海不同海域的底摩擦系数进行调整.依净潮能通量与底摩擦耗散平衡关系计算得到台湾海峡、北部湾、泰国湾及南海深水海域的底摩擦系数分别为0.0023、0.0024、0.0023和0.0021.