• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.8-14
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• 2017

One of the main causes of gas pipeline accidents is mechanical impact(third party damage). The majority of high pressure gas pipelines buried in major domestic industrial complexes are old pipes which have being operated over 20 years. Therefore, if an accident occurs, there will be a full scale accident because there is no additional inspection and reinforcement time. In this study, the defects on the piping during the mechanical impact were studied through the third party damage(excavation) experiments. Experiments were carried out using the 21 ton excavator which is operated in the actual excavation work and the type of pipe to be struck are ASTM A106 Grade.B and ASTM A53 Grade.B. As a result, when the bucket used during excavator operation is a sawtooth bucket, the defect is more bigger. And the smaller the diameter of the pipe, the smaller the depth and length of the defect. Also, it was confirmed that the impact height had no effect on the defects on the buried pipe, during the excavation work.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.7-13
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• 2009

In order to make the critical path analysis of gas pipeline located under rigid pipes for interference behavior, FE analysis is performed considering real buried conditions of a drain and a gas pipe according to intersection angle of two pipes. A drain pipe and gas pipe have cover depth respectively 1.0m and 3.39m and this study considers a interference angle in the range of $0{\sim}90^{\circ}$. In this paper, the critical path is analyzed from the result of Ring Deflection and bending stress according to intersection angle. In the event intersection angle of two pipes equal to the critical path of lower pipe. The analysis results show that the critical path of lower gas pipe according to interference behavior has relation to intersection angle of two pipes.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.66-71
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• 2014

Gas pipelines are the core facilities in the gas facilities and the most pipelines are buried underground and are exposed to the risk of corrosion caused by the soil characteristics and the environmental impact. The anti-corrosion potential and the corrosion status of the underground pipelines are measured periodically in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations. A study on the cathodic protection measurement system was carried out in order to solve the problems of the conventional measurement system. This paper describes the survey on the standards and the specifications of the cathodic protection measurement and the the reference electrode to meet the relevant regulations, and the development of the measuring circuit and the data transmission module to build the cathodic protection measurement system. This study verified the field applicability through the testing of the developed prototype and investigated on the problems of the previous studies and the future research and development direction.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.4 no.2 s.10
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• pp.37-45
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• 2000

The underground buried pipelines of Natural gas are relatively safer than any other pipelines of chemical plants, because Natural gas is non-corrosive fluid. But Natural gas is supplied normally the downtown area. So, it may be a disaster because of corrosion which is caused interference facilities, environment and third party accident which is caused facilities construction. Especially, it is very difficult to find out and inspect damages of pipeline because of buried pipelines. Therefore this paper approached to select and manage risk region pipelines according to introduction of underground buried pipeline's risk concept. Risk was indicated three parts - corrosion factor, design and construction factor, maintence and management factor - in this paper, Therefore qualitive risk of pipelines showed score as quantitative number. Also it was thought to be helpful in confidence and safety management that the concept of key index and failure supplementation measures to cost introduces this program. We developed this risk assessment program using visual basic tool and interfaced GIS.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.6 no.4 s.18
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• pp.40-46
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• 2002

This study has been carried out to evaluate the reliability by examining the properties related to durability of commercially available coating systems in domestic. For this purpose slow crack growth resistance and oxidative induction time tests were introduced, which have been accepted as durability parameters in polyethylene pipes with low pressure. Based upon the experimental results on these parameters, desirable minimum values are proposed for the durability enhancement of the polyethylene coatings.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.224-226
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• 2015

지하 매설 배관의 장기적 사용은 배관의 안전성과 건전성이 확보되어야 한다. 이를 위하여 진단, 평가, 보수에 대한 기술을 확보하고 지속적인 모니터링이 필요한 상태이다. 본 연구는 이러한 배관에 대한 건전성 평가를 활용하여 보수우선순위에 따라 배관을 관리할 수 있게 하는 기술을 개발하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 평가를 할 수 있는 모델에 대한 연구 그리고 모델을 실제 도시가스회사의 시스템과 연계하기 위한 기술 개발에 대한 연구가 진행되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.53-64
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• 2018

Natural gas is an explosive fluid and can cause severe human/material damage when buried high-pressure pipeline is failure, and there have been reported cases of considerable human life damage to actual buried pipeline failure. In domestic cases, the length and duration of pipeline operating are short due to rapid growth. Therefore, it is a fact that the establishment of effective accident data is insufficient for the cause of the accident. In order to systematically construct an accident database, the operation history of natural gas pipeline is longer than domestic, and the cause and frequency analysis of recent natural gas pipeline related accidents occurred in overseas major countries with a long pipeline network was conducted. Then, after grasping the trend of occurrence frequency by incident cause, we tried to establish the foundation for securing the stability of the domestic high-pressure gas transport pipeline network.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.27-32
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• 2011

In this paper a new defect length estimation algorithm using SQI(self quotient image) is presented for the MFL(magnetic flux leakage) inspection of underground gas pipelines. Gas pipelines are magnetized by the permanent magnets of the MFL PIG(pipeline inspection gauge) when the PIG runs through pipelines. If defects or corrosions exist in the pipeline, magnetic leakage flux is increased. The MFL signals measured by hall sensors are analyzed to estimate defect length using SQI. For 74 real defects carved in KOGAS pipeline simulation facility(KPSF) the accuracy of defect length estimation of the proposed algorithm was compared with that of conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.7-12
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• 2000

전국에 천연가스를 공급하기 위해 지하에 매설된 가스배관은 파괴 또는 파손 발생시 경제적, 인적인 면에서 대형 재해를 일으킬 뿐만 아니라 에너지의 안정한 공급이 위협받게 되어 산업적인 면에서도 큰 손실을 유발하게 된다. 가스배관에 대하여 적합한 파괴안전성 평가를 수행하고, 불가피한 손상이 발생할 경우 사용적합성평가(Fitness For Service)를 통해 대처방안을 수립할 경우, 에너지 공급의 안정화 및 경제적, 사회적 손실의 방지를 이루며 안전하고 효율적인 배관망 운용을 할 수 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.403-406
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• 2002

가정용 및 산업용으로 사용되고 있는 천연가스는 70kg/cm1의 압력으로 지하에 매설되어 있는 API 5L X65재질의 배관을 통하여 공급되고 있다 생산기지에서 공급되는 압력이 70kg1cmr이지만 가스소비량에 따라 계절별 및 월별 가스 내압이 변화되고 있다. 하루에도 최대 2회정도 주기적으로 변화를 보이고 있다. 본 연구에서는 API 5L X65등급의 가스배관 모재 및 용접부에 일정한 형태의 가우지 결함을 가공하여 현재 사용중인 내압 조건과 유사한 내압변화를 재현하여 피로수명을 평가하였다.(중략)