• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.428-433
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• 2003

화재 및 폭발 특성치로 인화점, 최소발화온도, 폭발한계, 최소발화에너지, 연소열 등을 들 수 있다. 연소특성은 인화성용제들(석유류 및 알코올류 등)의 취급, 저장, 수송에서 포함되어 있는 잠재 위험성을 평가할 때 고려된다. 여러 연소특성 가운데 폭발한계(explosive limits)는 가연성물질(가스 및 증기)을 다루는 공정 설계 시 고려해야 할 중요한 변수로써, 발화원이 존재할 때 가연성가스와 공기가 혼합하여 일정 농도범위 내에서만 연소가 이루어지는 혼합범위를 말한다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.93-98
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• 1999

톨루엔, o-크실렌등의 유기용제는 도료공업 등의 혼합용제와 기계부품의 세척등에 많이 사용되고 있다. 그러나 이들 물질들은 공정상의 제조, 저장, 처리과정 및 취급과 사용 중에 부주의로 인한 밀폐구역에서의 누출로 폭발과 화재사고가 자주 발생하고 있다. 97년 5월 $\Delta$$\Delta$조선소에서 건조 중이던 선박 기관실의 선체 탱크내부 도장작업 중 화재ㆍ폭발이 발생하였으며, 97년 10월 $\square$$\square$조선소에서 수리중이던 유조선의 Tank 내부와 pipe line에 체류중인 가연성 증기가 인화되어 화재ㆍ폭발사고가 98년 6월 김해시 소재 00공업(주)에서 솔벤트로 공작기계 부품을 세척하던중 가연성 증기가 인화되어 화재가 발생하였다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07c
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• pp.1538-1539
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• 2006

직경 0.3mm, 길이 40mm의 은 와이어를 증류수 중에서 전기폭발(wire explosion)을 발생시켰다. 전기폭발에 의해서 액체 중에 충격파 발생에 의한 공간의 형성과 더불어 금속 증기 및 플라즈마가 발생하고, 증기의 응축에 의해서 나노분말이 생성되는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 생성된 나노분말은 생성공간의 붕괴와 더불어 액체속으로 자연스럽게 분산되었다. 제조된 은 나노분말은 비교적 잘 분산된 구형의 분말이었으며 비표면적은 $16.2m^2/g$(평균입도 35nm)을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.397-400
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• 2002

Vapor explosion is one of the most important problems encountered in severe accident management of nuclear power plants. In spite of many efforts, a lot of questions still remain. So, KAERI launched a real experimental program called TROI using $UO_{2}$ and $ZrO_{2}$ to investigate the vapor explosion. Besides TROI tests, a small-scale experiment with molten-tin/water system was performed to quantify the characteristics of vapor explosion and to understand the phenomenology of vapor explosion. A vapor explosion was observed while the amount of air bubble and water temperature were systematically varied The mass and temperature of tin are $50\;g\;and\;150^{\circ}C$, respectively. Water temperature is set to $24^{\circ}C\;and\;50^{\circ}C$. The void fraction of air bubble ranges from $0\;to\;10\;{\%}$. The strength of vapor explosion was measured using dynamic pressure sensors attached in reactor tube wall. as a function of void fraction. In addition, a high speed video filming up to 1,000 flame/sec was taken in order to visually investigate the behavior of the vapor explosion .

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.414-419
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• 2003

In the recent TROI experiments, melts of zirconia and two different compositions of corium were used to observe the occurrence of a steam explosion when it came into contact with water at two different depths. The compositions of the corium were 70 : 30 and 80 : 20 in weight percent of $UO_{2}$ and $ZrO_{2}$, and the mass of the corium was about 10kg. The depth of water in the interaction vessel was 67cm and 130cm. A steam explosion did not occur in the interaction between 80 : 20 corium melt and water at 130cm depth, while steam spikes were observed in the interactions between corium melts of two different compositions and water at 67cm depth. A strong steam explosion occurred in the interaction between 5.43kg of zirconia melt and water at 67cm depth. This fact shows that the explosivity of zirconia is much greater than that of corium.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.2041-2046
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• 2004

Recently series of steam explosion experiments have been performed in the TROI facility to identify the influence of corium compositions on the occurrence of a spontaneous steam explosion varying corium melt composition. The compositions of the corium were 0 : 100, 50 : 50, 70 : 30, 80 : 20 and 87 : 13 at weight percent of $UO_2$ to $ZrO_2$, and the mass of the corium was about 10kg. Corium melt at 0 : 100 weight percent (pure zirconia) caused a strong spontaneous steam explosion, and melt at 70 : 30 weight percent(eutectic corium) led to a weak steam spike, while melts at other compositions did not result in spontaneous steam explosions, when they came into contact with 67cm deep water pool at room temperature. It seems that the explosivity of pure zirconia is stronger than that of corium at other compositions and a steam explosion is not likely to occur with corium melts at non-eutectic compositions which are included in mushy zone region.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.33 no.8
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• pp.622-628
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• 2009

The TEXAS-V code tuned for TROI-13 was used for analyzing the parametric findings in TROI experiments. The calculations on the melt composition are relatively similar to the TROI experimental results. The water depth effect in TEXAS-V code seems to be consistent with TROI experiments in some degree. The water area effect of TEXAS-V calculations seems not to be harmonious to that in TROI experiments. This seems to indicate that TEXAS-V as 1-dimensional code or as the numerical steam explosion has a limitation on estimating area effect. Thus, TEXAS-V tuned for TROI-13 seems to have an ability to estimate the parametric effect of TROI experiments. The evaluated TEXAS-V was used for estimating the ex-vessel steam explosion load. The calculated explosion pressure and load were about 40 MPa and 75 kPa.sec, which are not much threatening level for containment integrity.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.148-155
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• 2013

The steam generators of OPR-1000 plants have Alloy 600 and Alloy 690 as the tube material and its tube expansion method is the explosive expansion method. According to the experience of these plants, circumferential cracks were largely occurred in steam generator tubes expanded by the explosive expansion method and their locations were the outer surface of tube expansion transition region surrounding with piled-up sludge. But even though tubes have the same conditions, tubes with the hydraulic expansion method shows the prevail trend of axial cracks compared to circumferential cracks. Therefore in this study, in order to identify the difference of such phenomena as above, configurations of tube and tubesheet were modeled and at operating conditions, stress values applied in the tube expansion transition area in accordance with tube expansion methods were calculated by using computational program and the direction and the predominance of cracks were evaluated.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.4 no.4 s.12
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• pp.50-57
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• 2000

Past accidents have shown that vapor cloud explosions are the predominant cause of the largest losses in the chemical and petrochemical industries due to the generation of significant overpressures. Prediction of such overpressure is of great concern and a knowledge of the likely overpressure is needed for the design of equipment, safety cases and emergency planning. For these reasons, risk assessment for vapor cloud explosion is crucial and this assessment can be carried out using the different models including TNT-Equivalency, TNO Hemispherical, TNO Multi-Energy and CFD models. Accordingly, in this paper, the published VCE prediction models are reviewed to provide a critical comparison of the different models used for the quantification of explosion hazards, in terms of the fundamental assumptions employed, and their predictive accuracy

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.173-178
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• 2003