• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.58-65
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• 2016

Hydraulic analysis of the natural gas transmission pipeline is to determine whether adequate flow can be sustained throughout the design life of pipeline under all expected flow conditions. Many factors have to be considered in the hydraulic design of long-distance pipelines, including the nature, volume, temperature and pressure of fluid to be transported, the length and elevation of pipeline and the environment of terrain traversed. This study reviewed the available gas operation data provided by pipeline construction project in the arctic area and discussed the gas properties such as viscosity and compressibility factor that influence gas flow through a pipeline. Pipeline inside diameter was calculated using several flow equations and pipeline wall thickness was calculated from Barlow's equation applying a safety factor and including the yield strength of the pipe material. The AGA flow equation was used to calculate the pressure drop due to friction, gas temperature and pipeline elevation along the pipeline. The hydraulic design in this study was compared with the report of Alaska Pipeline Project.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.50-58
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• 2013

Various process piping usually carries out high flammable and explosible gas under high pressure and high temperature. Due to frequent change of design and structure it becomes more complicated and compactly located. The safety management level is relatively low since it is considered as simply designed component. In this study a safety assessment procedure is proposed for complicated piping system around a mixing drum in which natural gas and by-product gases were mixed. According to ASME code, pipe stress analysis was conducted for determining design margin at some key locations of the piping. These high stress locations can be used as major inspection points for managing the pipe integrity. Sensitivity analysis with outside temperature of the pipe and support constraint condition. Possible effect of hydroen gas to the pipe steel during the previous use of the by-product gas was also discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.109-112
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• 2005

배관에 생기는 구멍이나 틈은 대형 사고의 원인이 될 수 있다. 이러한 배관의 결함을 찾기 위해서는 먼저 센서를 부착한 배관 탐사 장비를 배관에 통과시키고, 배관을 통과하는 중에 센서가 읽은 정보들을 배관 탐사 장비의 하드 디스크에 저장한다. 배관 통과가 완료된 후, 분석가는 분석 프로그램을 사용하여 탐사 장비에서 얻은 데이터에서 결함을 수동적으로 찾는다. 분석가가 데이터를 분석할 때 일반적으로 두 가지 패턴이 존재한다. 첫 번째 패턴은 일정한 구간의 센서 데이터를 순차적으로 분석하는 패턴이고, 두 번째 패턴은 현재 구간에서 이전 구간으로 되돌아가서 다시 분석하는 반복적인 패턴이다. 현재까지 만족할 만 한 수준으로 자동적으로 분석이 되지 않으므로, 분석가는 수작업으로 분석을 하는 경우가 많은데 이로 인해 최근에 읽은 부분을 전후 반복해서 액세스하는 반복적인 패턴이 많이 사용된다. 반복적 패턴의 경우 시스템의 성능을 향상시키기 위해, 이전에 읽은 배관 센서 데이터를 캐싱 할 필요가 있다. 그러나 기존의 분석 소프트웨어에는 캐싱 기능이 없으므로 반복적 패턴일 경우 데이터베이스에서 동일한 데이터를 반복적으로 읽는 문제를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 배관 센서 데이터를 효율적으로 관리하는 캐쉬 관리자를 설계하고 구현하였다. 세부적으로는, 배관 센서 데이터를 시계열 데이터로 간주하고, 시계열 데이터에 대한 캐시 관리자를 제안하였다. 본 논문은 배관 탐사 장비에서 획득한 데이터들을 시계열 데이터로 간주하여 데이터베이스 측면에서 이러한 문제들을 접근하였다는 점에서 의미가 있으며, 향후 이 분야에 대한 많은 연구들이 나올 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.30-38
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• 2017

Established in the 1960s, high pressure underground pipelines in Ulsan and Yeosu industrial estate are underground as toxic gas as well as combustible gas that is heavier than city gas and low combustion range. Especially, industrial pipelines occupy more than 20 years old pipes. In this way, the industrial estate pipeline was installed before the introduction of the supervision of construction, However, unlike the city gas pipeline, the pipeline is managed without any legal obligation. In this study, the safety management status of high pressure underground pipelines and urban gas underground pipelines in the industrial estate is analyzed and comparison of laws, extent of damage impact, using the pipe inspection model for pipe inspection of high pressure piping system with the existing piping system. it is intended to cuntribute to improving the safety of industrial estate are underground pipeline.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.449-460
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• 2012

The importance of the leak detection of a buried pipe in a power plant of Korea is being emphasized as the buried pipes of a power plant are more than 20 years old. The objective of this work is to enhance the capability of the leak detection technique in a noisy environment. For this purpose, a modified cross-correlation method that can effectively remove the rotating machinery noise component is suggested. In addition, a method for leak point detection using phase information of cross-spectrum is suggested. The validity of the proposed method is verified by performing an experiment. The experimental result demonstrates that the performance of the cross-correlation method can be enhanced by reducing the periodic noise components due to mechanical equipment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.361-361
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• 2011

하나로 냉중성자원(CNS: Cold Neutron Source)은 원자로 수조내 반사체 탱크에 위치한 수직 조사공에 설치되어 하나로 노심에서 발생하는 열중성자를 감속재인 액체 수소층을 통과시켜 냉중성자를 생산한다. 생성된 냉중성자는 유도관을 통하여 냉중성자 산란장치에 공급되어 이용 연구에 활용된다. 감속재로 사용되는 수소는 헬륨냉동계통의 운전에 따라 수소가 수조내기기 집합체(IPA: In Pool Assembly) 내로 이동되어 액화되어지므로, 극저온의 헬륨가스의 흐름이 중요하다. 헬륨냉동기에 의해 만들어진 극저온인 헬륨은 IPA 내의 수소와 열교환을 하기 위해서 배관을 통해 이동되며, 열손실없이 전달하기 위하여 헬륨 배관은 진공층이 형성된 이중배관으로 설계되어 있다. 헬륨 이중배관은 공급 및 회수 배관으로 구성되어 있으며, 헬륨 배관의 외관에 진공층을 20개의 구간으로 나누어 제작 및 설치되었으며, 각각의 진공도를 유지하고 있다. 이 논문에서는 하나로 냉중성자원 헬륨 이중배관의 특성과 헬륨냉동계통의 운전 및 정지시 온도 변화에 따른 이중배관 진공도의 변화를 분석하였다.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.21-26
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• 2019

Various pipes are buried in the city as needed, such as water pipes, gas pipes and hydrogen pipes. As the time passes, buried pipes becomes aged due to crack, etc. these pipes has the risk of accidents such as explosion and leakage. To prevent the risks, many pipes are repaired or replaced, but the location of the pipes can also be changed. Failure to identify the location of the altered pipe may cause an accident by touching the pipe. In this paper, we propose a method to detect buried pipes by gathering the GPR images by using GPR and Learning with Faster R-CNN. Then experiments was carried out by raw data sets and data sets augmentation applied to increase the amount of images.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2023

Earthquakes are one of the most important disasters affecting underground structures. Urban gas underground pipes may cause safety problems of structures in the event of an earthquake. Since Korea began digital observation, the number of earthquakes has been steadily increasing. The seismic design standard for urban gas pipes was established in 2008, but it is difficult to estimate the impact of pipes in the event of an earthquake based on the installation of pipes. In this study, structural analysis was performed on PE (polyethylene pipe) pipes and PLP (polyethylene coated steel pipe) pipes, which are mainly used as buried pipes in Korea, according to environmental and pipe variables in the event of an earthquake. This study sought to find the variables of the most vulnerable buried pipe by modeling pipes through Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and generating displacement on the ground. Through this study, it was confirmed that the larger the elastic modulus of the soil, the deeper the buried depth, the smaller the tube diameter, and the higher the pressure, the more PLP pipes are affected by earthquakes than PE. Based on these results, the vulnerable points of buried urban gas pipes are inferred and used for special inspections of buried pipes in the event of an earthquake.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

It is required to construct the pipelines to eliminate pressure drop at the end of transmission line under limitation of maximum operation pressure of 6.86 MPa, however, it highly costs to build the pipelines and takes time-consuming job. Higher operation pressure compared to current operating pressure has been considered to resolve the problem of pressure drop without modification of the existing pipelines and facilities. As a result of the integrity evaluation, the existing pipelines can be operated up to 7.85 MPa in terms of wall thickness and have higher Charpy impact energy than required value in the ASME B31.8. However, Increment of operation pressure gives rise to increase potential impact area if the pipelines burst due to third party damages.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.923-930
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• 2016

Various pipes are used in the many industrial field such as water supply, drainage system and marine plants, so a maintenance of these pipes is essential. Especially, the maintenance of the piping in the industrial field, some professional staffs enter and clean the pipe. If the professional staffs can not enter and clean the pipe, the workers has to use the method of inserting a scraper connected to wire inside the pipe. However, this method demands huge budget and causes a number of problems such as traffic congestion. To solve these problems, pipe cleaning robot has been researching and developing. Many Pipe cleaning robots have a problem, that is impossible to confirm the operating condition of the robot in a real time. This paper suggest pipe cleaning robot with RS-485 which transmit operating and cleaning condition of robot and inner pipe filmed by camera, that user can check.