• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.48-54
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• 2012

Building above-ground membrane LNG storage tanks have been recently actively reviewed because they have advantages in ease of large capacity, environmental friendliness, and low possibility of gas leakage of the inner tank (slow increase of leakage speed). In this paper, the safety of membrane LNG storage tanks was ensured through comparative risk assessment of full-containment LNG storage tanks and membrane LNG storage tanks by using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Risk assessment results showed that both types of tanks have very similar level of risk except for the membrane storage tanks without additional safety equipments (early model).

• Review of KIISC
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.50-55
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• 2014

자동차 전장제품 활용의 급속한 증가에 대응하기 위하여 자동차 분야에서는 ISO 26262 안전설계절차를 도입하여 차량용 임베디드 시스템의 안전성을 확보하려고 노력하고 있다. ISO 26262는 자동차에서 발생 가능한 비정상상태(abnormal state)를 식별하고 그의 영향을 분석하며 전체 시스템의 안전을 검증하는 것을 목표로 하고 있다. 다양한 종류의 부품이 연동되는 복잡한 시스템의 안전 검증은 결함수목법과 고장모드영향분석법을 활용하는 위험분석법이 보편적으로 사용된다. 결함주입시험은 이러한 위험분석의 기반도구로서 안전성을 향상시키기 위하여 사용된 고장감내 기능의 동작여부 및 그에 따른 시스템의 안전성을 검증하는 목적으로 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 차량용 고신뢰성 임베디드 시스템에서 사용되는 고장감내 메카니즘들의 기능과 안전을 검증하는 방법과 사례를 소개한다. 최근의 복잡한 차량용 임베디드 시스템의 개발은 상위수준의 모델을 개발하여 지정된 위험 및 고장을 초래하는 결함을 시스템에 주입하고 그의 결과를 분석하여 안전을 검증하는 것이 일반적인 방법이다. 개발 목표 차량의 임베디드 시스템 모델을 개발하고, 식별된 결함의 결함모델을 준비한 뒤, 시스템 모델 기반 결함주입 도구를 이용하여 결함주입을 수행하는 시험방법과 그 결과에 대하여 논의한다. 하드웨어는 SystemC 하드웨어 설계언어를 이용하여 개발하고, 소프트웨어를 컴파일하여 실행화일을 확보하여 시험대상인 결함모델을 개발하고 이를 대상으로 결함주입시험에 대해 설명한다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2009

Air Traffic Management (ATM) system requires extremely high reliability for the safe and dependable operations in the airport. This paper reports a study on the reliability of the prototype ATM hardware system including the servers and local area networks. Reliability Block Diagram and Fault Tree Analysis on the prototype ATM hardware were performed.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.57-73
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• 2004

Quantitative safety analysis through a fault tree method has been conducted for a fire broken out over the spilling LNG from a pilot LNG tank, which may have 4 types of scenarios causing potentially risky results. When we consider LNG release from venting pipelines as a first event, any specific radius of Low Flammable Limit(LFL) has not been built up. The second case of LNG outflow from the rupture of storage tank which will be the severest has been analyzed and the results revealed various diffusion areas to the leaking times even with the same amount of LNG release. As a third case LNG leakage from the inlet/outlet pipelines was taken into consider. The results showed no significant differences of LFL radii between the two spilling times of 10 and 60 minutes. Hence, we have known the most affecting factor on the third scenario is an initial amount of LNG release. Finally, the extent of LFL was calculated when LNG pipelines around the dike area were damaged. In addition, consequence analysis has been also performed to acquire the heat radiation and flame magnitude for each case.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.339-345
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• 2012

RMembrane LNG storage tanks have been recently investigated to replace full-containment LNG storage tanks because of safety and cost aspects. Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) and Finite Element Method (FEM) were used to evaluate safety of membrane LNG storage tanks. In this study, structural safety evaluation results via FEM analysis showed that both membrane type and full-containment type cryogenic LNG storage tanks with 140,000 $m^3$ capacity were equivalently safe in terms of strength safety and leakage safety of a storage tank system. Also, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) was used to improve the safety of membrane LNG storage tanks and membrane LNG tanks were modified by adding three safety equipments: impact absorber structure for the low part of the membrane, the secondary barrier to diminish the thermal stress of the corner part of the outer tank, and a pump catcher in case of falling of a pump. Consequently, the safety of the modified membrane LNG storage tanks were proved to be equivalent to that of full-containment LNG storage tanks.