• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.1-5
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• 2010

Many sorts of fatal accidents like explosion or fire caused by gas leakage have become a social issue with the increasing use of harmful chemicals in laboratories in universities and enterprise-affiliated research institutes in Korea. Importance of safety management has been emphasized and it made Act on the Establishment of Safe Laboratory Environment enacted not only to protect lives and bodies of people working in laboratories in universities and enterprise-affiliated research institutes but also to make pleasant experimental atmosphere. Safety management system has been built and periodical checkups and safety diagnosis have been implementing in universities and enterprise-affiliated research institutes to prevent such accidents. However, in spite of those actions, continuous accidents make analysis of root cause essential. This study will show results of analysis on incidents and accidents occurred in laboratories in universities and enterprise-affiliated research institutes using Root Cause Analysis Method and propose the direction of safety management.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.93-94
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• 2007

An essential step for SERGI is to show the TRANSFORMER PROTECTOR (TP) efficacy for all transformers and all types of rupture of insulation. Its research program philosophy is thus to maintain a strong connection between experiments and the theoretical developments. Up to now, two TP test campaigns have been performed, both under the worst conditions by creating low impedance faults leading to electrical arcs inside the transformer tank dielectric oil. In 2002, Electricite de France performed 28 TP tests. Then, in 2004, a second campaign of 34 TP tests was carried out by CEPEL, the Brazilian independent High Voltage Laboratory. For the 62 tests, each transformer was equipped with the TP, which reacts directly to the moving dynamic pressure peak, shock wave, caused by the low impedance fault. When an electrical arc occurs, only one pressure peak is generated. The initial energy transfer is almost instantaneous, and so is the phase change. Because of the oil inertia, the gas is very quickly pressurised. As it is more difficult to vaporise a liquid than to crack oil-vapour into smaller molecules, the arc location would mainly remain in the gaseous phase after and less gas will be produced. As a result, when comparing tests for which pressure peaks are respectively equal to 8 bar (116 psi) and 8.8 bar (127 psi), the corresponding arc energies vary by an order 10 of magnitude (0.1 MJ and 1 MJ respectively). The correlation of the results obtained between arc energy and dynamic pressure demonstrates that the arc energy is not the key parameter during transformer tank explosion, which is in opposition with the common electrical engineers belief.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.89-89
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• 2019

수환경으로 유출되는 유해화학물질은 독성을 가지고 직접 유출되거나 다양한 매체와 반응하여 화재 및 폭발 등의 사고가 발생한다. 실제로 낙동강 유역에서는 1991년 페놀 유출사고를 시작으로 2009년 구미공단 '1,4-다이옥산' 유출사고, 2014년 11월 경북 봉화군의 황산유출사고 등 크고 작은 사고가 빈번히 발생하고 있으며 작년 6월에는 대구와 부산의 수돗물에서 과불화화합물이 검출되기도 하였다. 이러한 대규모 사고를 방지하기 위해 신속한 오염물의 거동 예측이 가능한 추적모델이 필요하며, 본 연구에서는 수환경으로 유출된 유해화학물질의 추적을 위한 1차원 저장대 모형을 개발하였다. 일반적으로 저장대 모형은 복잡한 하천 구조를 하천의 주 흐름이 존재하는 본류대와 하천 흐름이 정체되는 저장대, 그리고 하상구조로 단순화 하여 나타낸다. 본류대에서는 하천흐름에 의한 이송 및 횡방향 유속차로 발생하는 전단류에 의한 확산이 일어나며, 저장대와의 물질교환으로 발생하는 저장효과와, 하상구조와의 흡착 및 탈착, 그리고 생물화학적 반응 및 휘발이 발생한다고 가정한다. 본류대와 저장대간의 질량교환은 난류유속변동과 농도차에 의해서만 발생한다고 가정하고 오염물질의 이송과 분산과정을 해석한다. 저장대에서는 이송 및 전단류에 의한 확산은 일어나지 않으며, 본류대와의 물질교환으로 발생하는 저장효과와 하상구조로의 흡착, 그리고 생물화학적 반응 및 휘발이 발생한다고 가정하며, 하상구조에서는 본류대 및 저장대와의 흡착 및 탈착만 발생한다고 가정한다. 저장대 모형의 해석을 위해서는 리치(Reach) 별로 본류대 분산계수($K_F$), 본류대 면적($A_F$), 저장대 면적($A_S$), 그리고 저장대 교환계수(${\alpha}$)의 네 가지 저장대 매개변수가 필요하며 본 연구에서 개발된 저장대 모형은 흡탈착, 생물화학적 반응 및 휘발 과정을 모두 고려하여 유해화학물질의 확산 거동을 모의한다. 최적의 리치길이, 흡탈착, 반응 및 휘발 계수를 산정하여 모형의 정확도를 향상시켰으며, 신속하고 정확하게 오염물의 거동을 예측할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.81-86
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• 2011

Without a special mineral resources in Korea, such as petrochemical industries, electronics and automotive industries to supply the basic material, but remains a key industry locations. Gongjeongsang dealing with hazardous materials, such as a fire or explosion hazard, and from this site sangjonhae safety regulations to protect human and material disaster prevention activities are focused. However, depending on the actual implementation of standardized safety regulations as necessary if not originally intended, proper objectivity and reliability of safety regulations, as well as impaired resulting in a waste of public and private administrative power and petrochemical industries and the competitiveness of the entire drop factor will. Accordingly, this study petrochemical plant is applied to a representative safety regulations, items for their safety are needed and these regulations as being implemented that was identified, according to a study, some of the need for regulation and implementation both in terms of reliability was low.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.996-1003
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• 2019

The undergrounding of diverse ground facilities has led to a decrease in issues, such as foul smell of water supply systems and wastewater, a fall of telephone poles, electromagnetic waves and breaking of wires caused by a railway work. On the other hand, there are new issues, including a fall accident, explosion affected by flammable gas, a choking accident by harmful gas and a lack of oxygen concentration, a fire coming from high-tension wire heating and flooding in the manhole. Besides, these issues damage the civil society and are an anxiety to public safety. Therefore, this paper is focused on a smart manhole device for stable communication environments inside and outside the manhole and wireless communication with various devices for managing facilities in the manhole, and aims to make a contribution to public safety by suggesting a direction of future underground facility management.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.40-45
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• 2019

Flash point is the important flammability indicator characterizing the risk of fire and explosion of flammable liquid mixture. In this study, flash points of water+formic acid and water+acrylic acid were measured by Seta flash apparatus. The flash points estimated by the methods based on empirical equation and Raoult's law were compared with experimental flash points. Absolute average errors of the results estimated by Raoult's law are $10.7^{\circ}C$ and $4.8^{\circ}C$ for water+formic acid and water+acrylic acid, respectively. Absolute average errors of the results estimated by empirical equation are $1.0^{\circ}C$ and $0.5^{\circ}C$ for water+formic acid and water+acrylic acid, respectively. In conclusion, the estimated values by empirical equation simulated the measured values better than those calculated by Raoult's law.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.385-393
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• 2019

Potential fire, explosion and safety hazards exist in medium- or small-scale chemical plants using radical batch reaction processes due to the various conditions of materials, works or products. To minimize the potential damage, a study was conducted on qualitative hazard analysis using the HAZOP technique, which is a typical method for a qualitative risk assessment and analysis of the potential risks encountered in these chemical plants. For this purpose, a domestic chemical plant, which produces the acrylic resin by a radical batch reaction process, was selected and a risk assessment and analysis according to the procedure of HAZOP method was performed for the process. As the result of the study, to prevent the hazard, the input of inert gas and the installation of a pressure gauge were indispensable. In addition, the initiator and monomer should also be separated, and inhibiting substances and equipment are also necessary to prevent a runaway reaction.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.351-360
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• 2019

Recently, the use of ESS facilities has been increased under the government's energy policy and at the same time, the various accident incidents such as fire and explosion occurred. Currently the ESS is installed as integrated ESS which includes PMS(: Power Management System), However, when the accident occurs, this system has high possibilities of losing the data due to oxidization, and the administrator cannot respond promptly. Therefore, in this paper, by constructing a separate WAS and data storage, it is possible to separate the main functions of the conventional system, to enable external EMS operation, and at the same time to quickly respond to the cause and cause of the accident occurrence. We will propose the development of a standalone PMS that is possible to respond.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.21-27
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• 2019

Many accidents have been occurring during welding and flame cutting work related to maintenance and repair as the domestic manufacturing facilities gradually become decrepit. However, it is not easy to find the accurate statistics and analysis data on accidents occurring during welding or flame cutting operations related to maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment. Therefore, in this study, the fatal accident cases of fire/explosion and asphyxiation that occurred during the welding and flame cutting work in the manufacturing industry were collected and their characteristics were analyzed. Then, we tried to find the connection of the accidents according to the machinery/equipment and the work content, and to provide the materials and measures that can be used to prevent the similar accidents. We collected 329 cases of the fatal accidents related to fire/explosion and leakage/contact of chemical substances in the domestic manufacturing industry during the last 10 years (2008 ~ 2017). Among them, 72 accidents occurred during welding or flame cutting were extracted and the related reports were investigated whether they occurred during usual work or unusual work. Also, the machinery/equipment and the work content related to the accidents were classified and analyzed based on the criteria. The analysis results showed that 31 cases of the fire/explosion accidents occurred during usual work and 32 cases during unusual work, and it was found that 9 cases of asphyxiation death occurred during usual work. Then, from the analysis results, the connections of the machinery/equipment and the work contents related to the accidents were schematized into a accident tree.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.47-53
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• 2019

A variety of general purpose polymer products such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PVC), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene (PS) and polyurethane (PU) are widely produced and used in the industrial field. Many industrial accidents have occurred due to fire and explosion at the manufacturing site. In order to prevent such accidents, it is important to collect and analyze accident cases that occurred in the past to identify the characteristics of accidents and to use them to prevent the same kind of accidents or similar accidents. In this study, the accident distribution characteristics of general polymer manufacturing process were examined by using SPSS based on the database of the industrial accident statistics system operated by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency. These results can be used to prevent accidents in the general-purpose polymer product process and ensure the safety of the process.