• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2016

On August 12, 2015, two huge explosions were accidently happened in Tianjin port, China. The explosion energies of the two explosions were similar to those of TNT 3 tons and TNT 21 tons. Until now, the cause of the explosions was not clearly announced but some guesses of the cause were released. One of the possible cause of the explosion is the generation of explosive acetylene gas from the chemical reaction between $CaC_2$ and spraying water to extinguish fire happened at the storage site of different chemical compounds. The explosion of acetylene gas might ignite the explosion of 800 tons of ammonium nitrate. In this study, the explosion due to the scenario was analyzed in order to check that such a chemical reaction can produce the huge explosion observed at the Tianjin accident.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.30-37
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• 2016

Electrical apparatuses for use in the presence of flammable gas atmospheres have to be specially designed to prevent them from igniting the explosive gas. Flameproof design implies that electrical components producing electrical sparks are contained in enclosures and withstand the maximum pressure of internal gas or vapours. In addition, any gaps in the enclosure wall have to designed in such a way that they will not transmit a gas explosion inside the enclosure to an explosive gas or vapours atmosphere outside it. In this study, we explained some of the most important physical mechanism of MESG(Maximum Experimental Safe Gap) that the jet of combustion products ejected through the flame gap to the external surroundings do not have an energy and temperature large enough to initiate an ignition of external gas or vapours. We measured the MESG and maximum explosion pressure of ternary gas mixtures(propane-acetylene-air) by the test method and procedure of IEC 60079-20-1:2010. As a result, the composition of propane gas that has lower explosive power than acetylene gas in the ternary gas mixtures makes greater effects on MESG and explosion pressure.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.606-611
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• 2018

City natural gas is classified flammable hazardous gas and should be secured according to explosion risk assessment determined by Industrial Standard KS C IEC. In this study, leak size, ventilation grade and effectiveness were adopted to the KS C IEC for risk assessment in natural gas supply system. To evaluate the applicability of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the risk assessment was studied for four different conditions using hypothetical volume($V_z$) valuesfrom gas leak experiments, KS C IEC calculation, and CFD simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.61-69
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• 1998

The risk assessments for gas leak in underground pipeline are conducted about the explosion accident of AHYUN-DONG underground service-base on December, 1994(Gaussian gas, LNG) and the accident of TAEGU subway on April 1995(Heavy gas LPG). We have calculated the total mass of gas release and have respected the efficient of explosions with report of the spot. The dispersion zones of LNG were calculated as large as fifteen times to those of LPG by ALOHA. The effects of thermal radiation from LNG explosion were assumed less than that from LPG by PHAST.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.253-258
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• 1999

최근 가스 소비량이 급증하면서 가스 관련 사고 또한 증가하고 있는 추세에 있다. 가스관련 사고에 대한 분석결과 조정기의 제품불량으로 인한 사고 발생율이 급격하게 증가하고 있으며, 다수의 사고가 발생하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 LPG용 조정기의 불량에 의한 가스사고를 예방하고 사용상의 문제점을 개선하기 위해서 현재 유통되고 있는 사용중인 LPG용 조정기의 폭발위험성과 충격안전성을 고찰하여 폭발, 화재 방지 대책을 수립하고 시중에서 사용중인 조정기의 안전성을 검증하였다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.87-92
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• 1999

최근 우리나라에서는 가스사용시설의 확대, 석유화학 플랜트의 급격한 성장 및 LNG, 원유 등의 운반에 필요한 특수선의 증가등으로 인하여 사회 일상주변에 각종의 인화성 액체 또는 폭발성가스가 존재하는 기회가 많아 졌으며, 폭발성 위험물질의 취급이 점차 대규모화, 다양화, 복잡화 되어가고 있다. 이러한 현실속에서 폭발사고 방지에 대한 연구와 폭발성가스가 존재하거나 존재할 우려가 있는 위험장소에서 사용되는 방폭형 전기기기의 방폭성능에 대한 확인과 안전성을 평가하는 기술의 확립이 필요하다. (중략)

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.1-15
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• 2020

With the increase of the utilization of underground space in Korea, explosion accidents at the underground facilities such as gas pipes have occurred frequently. In urban area with high population density, individual explosion accidents are likely to spread into large complex accidents. It is necessary to investigate the effect of explosion on the stability of underground structures in urban area. In this study, a sensitivity analysis was carried out to investigate the possible influence of nearby explosion on the stability of underground structure with 8 parameters including explosion conditions and rock properties. From the sensitivity analysis using AUTODYN, the main and interaction effects of each parameters could be determined. From the analysis, it was found that the distance between explosion point and tunnel, charge weight, and Young's modulus are the most important parameters on the stress components around a tunnel.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.10 no.1 s.30
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• pp.48-55
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• 2006

In order to establish the comprehensively, quantitatively predictable program to the fire and explosion accidents in the urban gas system, and to set up domestic criteria of societal risk, the collected urban gas accident data have been deeply analyzed. The Poisson probability distribution functions with t=5 for the database of the gas accidents in recent 11 year shows that 'careless work-explosion-pipeline' item has the lowest frequency, whereas 'joint loosening & erosion-release-pipeline' item has the highest frequency. And thus the proper counteractions must be carried out. The further works requires setting up successive database on the fire and explosion accidents systematically to obtain reliable analyses.

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.21-30
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• 2017

When explosives explode in water, the effect of post-explosion gas after explosion should be considered, unlike explosion in the air. During explosion in water, the propagation velocity of the explosion pressure is faster than when the explosion occurs in the air. The generated gas is diffused and trapped in the form of bubbles by water before the energy is dissipated. At this time, the bubble expands and contracts, creating a shock wave. In order to investigate this series of phenomena, a cylinder type steel water tank capable of observing the interior was fabricated and explosion experiments were conducted. In this study, a small amount of shell-free pentolite was exploded in water. Experiments were performed to observe the behavior of the generated gas bubble as well as to measure the shock wave generated. We designed the experimental method of underwater explosion and examined the results.

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.85-94
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• 2003

발파후에 2차연소 또는 폭발(이하, 2차연소라 한다. )이 일어났다는 사실은 폭약이 폭발후에 어떤 가연성가스가 발생하고 그 가연성가스가 잔존하는 폭발열 또는 기타의 점화원에 의해 연소되었음을 의미한다. 폭약이 폭발하였을 때, 발생 가능한 가연성물질은 유리탄소, 일산화탄소, 수소 등으로 추정할 수 있는데 실험결과에서는 가연성물질의 주성분이 수소인 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 에멀존계 함수폭약이 산소평형, 알루미늄함량, 알루미늄형태와 크기 그리고 포장지의 두께에 따라 수소가 발생되는 양을 가스크로마토그라피를 이용하여 측정하였다. 상기의 열거한 요인들은 모두 수소발생량과 관계가 있는데, 이중에서도 가장 중요한 요인은 산소평형과 알루미늄의 함량인 것으로 나타났다. 한 예로 알루미늄이 15%가 포함되고 산소평형이 -10인 에멀존계 함수폭약은 폭발후에 19.4%의 수소를 함유하고 있는 후가스를 발생시켰으며 이 가스를 포집하여 공기중에 방출시키면서 성냥불을 가까이 하였더니 연소가 되었다. 따라서 에너지를 높이기 위하여 알루미늄의 함량을 높이고 산소평형을 지나치게 마이너스로 설계한다면, 2차연소는 언제든지 발생할 가능성이 있다고 판단된다. 알루미늄의 함량을 가능한 적게, 산소평형을 가능한 0에 가깝게 설계해야 만이 2차연소 현상을 방지할 수 있을 것이며 ㄸ한 최적의 설계뿐만이 아니라 정확한 제조와 품질검사도 2차연소 현상을 방지하는데 중요한 몫을 할 것으로 판단된다.