• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.4 no.1 s.9
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• pp.69-76
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• 2000

Explosion Quantities and flashing mass resulting from the variation of temperature are calculated by a computer program, BLEVE ESTIMATOR, to carry out the risk assessment of BLEVE. The damages caused by the BLEVE are estimated under the explosion of the simulation condition similar to the Puchun LP gas station accident, and the results are compared with the commercial program SAFER of Dupont CO. Explosion quantities and flashing mass increase exponentially with the increase of explosion temperature. These values for propane are relatively higher than those for n-butane. In conditions of higher vessel temperature, vessel pressure, and liquid ratio of containment, higher overpressures are calculated.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.215-221
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• 1993

A required initial condition for a steam explosion to occur following core meltdown accidents of a nuclear power plant is the formation of a coarse mixture of molten fuel and water. The extent of a premixing is the measure of efficiency of steam explosion that may follow. A simple one-dimensional, transient model and the flooding criteria have been applied to evaluate the fuel/coolant mixing limit. Also, both instant breakup and dynamic breakup models for the mixing process have been separately used here and compared each other. The results indicate that fuel temperature, ambient pressure, mixing diameter, water depth, and pouring diameter are the important parameters affecting the mixing behavior.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.61-68
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• 1998

According to the results for the thermodynamic stability of feed-stuff dust, there are little change of initiation temperature of heat generation and heating value for used particle size. But initiation temperature of heat generation decreased with high heating rate whereas decomposition heat increased with particle size. Using the supporting gas, O2, initiation temperature of heat generation decreased remarkably than using the inert gas, N2, and heating value increased as twenty times under the same condition. When the ignition energy is given from the outside, used fine particle which can float in the air easily reacted tremendously with oxygen. Average maximum explosion pressure was 6.88 Kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$ for 80/100 mesh.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.253-258
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• 2020

Petrochemical industry complex in Korea always has high riskiness due to explosive and inflammable gases. To prevent these explosion, most facility of petrochemical industry complex requires the performance of explosive proof. The control panel, which is used as explosive proof, has been used the air injection method by manually from outside to constantly keep the temperature and pressure between inside and outside of the panel. In this paper, we propose the automatic temperature controller, which performs automatic heating and cooling according to temperature inside the panel in order to control temperature automatically.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.813-822
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• 1998

The microexplosion of a slurry droplet was considered to be caused by the shell formation and the following pressure build-up in the shell which would be promoted by the suppression of evaporation, subsequent superheating and heterogeneous nucleation of liquid carrier. To closely investigate the pressure build-up and the heterogeneous nucleation, a numerical model was introduced by considering the internal temperature distributions with the shell formation, suppression of evaporation and pressure build-up inside. The microexplosion time was estimated by postulating the limit of superheat for heterogeneous nucleation. The simulation yielded a reasonably good agreement with experimental results for Al/n-heptane slurry droplets under various solid loadings.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.867-876
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• 1994

석유, 화학 설비를 구성하고 있는 기기의 파손으로 인하여 파생되는 인명, 재산 그리고 환경에 대한 피해가 엄청나다는 것은 산업사회가 고도화 될 수록 그 정도를 더해가고 있다. 최근 우리 나라에서도 석유, 화학 설비의 폭발사고 또는 부실시공에 대한 고발 등의 사회적 문제가 발생 하는 것도 간과할 수 없는 현실이다. 이러한 사례는 우리나라의 관련법규와 사회제도를 반영한 통일된 기술기준의 부재에서 비롯되었다고 필자는 주장하고 싶다. 이와 병행하여 통일된 기술 기준에 입각하여 제반 설비가 건설 및 운전되는지를 관리하고, 감독 및 검사하는 기능과 기법이 정리되어 있지 못한 것도 한 원인으로 들 수 있다. 따라서 석유, 화학설비를 보유하고 있는 관 련기관이 기술기준을 개발하고 그에 준하여 이행 여부를 관리, 감독하는 검사 기능을 강화하여야 보일러 및 압력용기의 폭발사고 및 부실시공을 미연에 방지할 수 있는 근본적인 치유책이 될 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.711-712
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• 2008

여러 산업분야에서, 폭발이 발생할 경우 인명이나 장비에 심각한 피해를 입히게 되며, 폭발에 의한 피해를 최대한 줄이기 위하여 대부분의 국가는 나름대로의 법률이나 규칙, 규정 등의 적용을 강제하고 있으며, 그에 따른 인증 절차를 거치도록 하고 있다. 방폭형 전기기기에 대한 국제규격은 IEC와 북미의 NEC가 권위가 있다. 본 연구에서는 방폭형 전기기기에 대한 규격을 분석하기 전단계로 위험지역 분류에 대한 IEC, NEC 규격별 차이를 먼저 비교 분석하였으며, 또한 향후 대형 전동기의 방폭형 시장 확대가 예상되는 '압력'형 전동기에 대해 적용 규격을 분석하고 설계에 반영할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.11 no.2 s.35
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• pp.15-24
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• 2007

For consequence analysis at a gas explosion by vessel release, release rates, demage areas of facilities, and fatality areas were estimated and analyzed at various conditions(release materials, temperatures, pressures, and vessel types) by using the release scenario of API-581 BRD. Simulation results showed that release rates and consequences in the vessel release were higher than those in the pipe release, and the order of release rates and damage areas was as follows; tank>reactor>drum> column.

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2023

Stemming is a process applied to blast holes to prevent gases from escaping during detonation. A stemming material helps confine the explosive energy for longer and increases rock fragmentation. This study developed a stemming material based on a shear-thickening fluid (STF) that reacts to dynamic shock. Two blasting experiments were conducted to Field-verify the performance of the STF-based stemming material. In the first experiment, the pressure inside the blast hole was directly measured based on applying the stemming material. In the second field verification, tunnel blasting was performed, and the blasting results of sand stemming and, that of the STF-based stemming case were compared. The measurement results of the pressure in the blast hole showed that when the STF-based stemming material was applied, the pressure at the top of the blast hole was lower than in the sand stemming case, and the stemming ejection was also lower. The results of the field application verify that the excavation performance of the STF-based stemming case in the tunnel blasting was superior to that of the sand stemming case.

• 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.