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A Study on Estimation of Human Damage Caused by Rupture of Butane Can  

Leem, Sa-Hwan (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
Huh, Yong-Jeong (School of Mechatronics Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
Choi, Seong-Joo (School of Mechatronics Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
Lee, Jong-Rark (Faculty Division, Institute of Technology Training)
Lim, Dong-Yeon (Ung Sang Governor Station, KOGAS)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.22, no.3, 2007 , pp. 98-104 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the industrial society is highly developing, human need in daily life has also changed drastically. With the introduction of 40 hour working week system, more households enjoy picnics on weekends. More gas accidents take place on Saturdays and on Sundays than any other days of week. In this context, the Institute of Gas Technology Training in Korea Gas Safety Corporation carries out explosion experiment to make trainees to take all possible measure to ensure safe management of gas in the field by fully recognizing the hazards of gas explosion accidents. In this study, the influence of explosion over-pressure caused by the rupture of butane can thrown away after use was calculated by using the Hopkinson's Scaling Law and the accident damage was estimated by applying the influence on the adjacent people into the Probit model. The value of those away from 50 meters from the explosion site was 1.35kPa and the peak overpressure to thoes away from 25 meters directly was 3.2kPa. Those value was input to the PROBIT model, the estimation showed the sante result 0 percent of damage possibility.
Keywords
human damage; explosion; GEN(gas explosion noise); over-pressure;
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