• 한국안전학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.156-161
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• 2016

An accident of an ammonia tank pipeline at a storage plant resulted in one death and three injuries in 2014. Many accidents including toxic gas releases and explosions occur in the freezing and refrigerating systems using ammonia. Especially, the consequence can be substantial due to that the large amount of ammonia is usually being used in the refrigeration systems. In this study, offsite consequence analysis has been investigated when ammonia leaks outdoors from large storages. Both flammable and toxic effects are under consideration to calculate the affected area using simulation programs for consequence analysis. ERPG-2 concentration (150 ppm) has been selected to calculate the evacuation distance out of various release scenarios for their dispersions in day or night. For offsite residential, the impact area by flammability is much smaller than that by toxicity. The methodology consists of two steps as followings; 1. Calculation for discharge rates of accidental release scenarios. 2. Dispersion simulation using the discharge rate for different conditions. This proactive prediction for accidental releases of ammonia would help emergency teams act as quick as they can.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.151-158
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• 1999

Offsite consequences resulting form worst-case scenarios involving release of toxic substances in the Yochon area were estimated using the ALOHA(Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres) model. Eight toxic substances, including NH3, were considered; five were toxic gases and three were toxic liquids at ambient temperature. For toxic gases, the entire quantity was assumed to be released at a constant rate during a 10-minute period. For toxic liquids, the entire quantity stored in the tank was assumed to be spilled and spread and spread instantaneously to form a pool with a depth of 1cm, and then evaporated over some period of time. Except for phosgene and toluene 2,4-diisocyanate, for which concentration levels corresponding to human health effects are very low, average distances of the area at risk of adverse health effects for a 1- tom release were predicted to be $2.3{\pm}1.1 km$ for the worst-case meteorological conditions and $0.93{\pm}0.69km$ under typical meteorological conditions of the Yochon are. Because a large number of people were predicted to be affected in the current analysis, refined analyses considering both realistic accident scenarios and topographic effects were warranted.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.582-585
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• 2016

ALOHA, PHAST 등의 사고영향평가 프로그램들을 활용하여 전기 전자 등의 산업 분야에서 많이 쓰이며 인체에 유독한 HF 가 누출되는 사고의 발생 시 대피해야 하는 초기 이격거리에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 다양한 공정조건과 상태로 저장되어 있는 HF의 사고시나리오를 간단하게 정의하기는 어렵지만 화학물질안전원의 지침대로 10분 내 총 저장량 누출을 최악의 시나리오, 결속된 배관의 일부 파열을 대안의 시나리오로 하여 비상상황을 가정하였다. 그로부터 사고모델링의 시작인 누출속도 산정을 한 후 보수적으로 확산모델링을 적용하여 밤과 낮의 대표적인 기상상태에 따라 일반적인 대피거리로 권고되는 ERPG-2 농도가 도달하는 끝점거리를 구하여 현장에서 신속하게 쓸 수 있는 간단한 그래프와 같은 형태로 제시하였다. 이는 유사시를 대비한 사전적인 성격의 그래프로 화학물질 누출사고 시 신속한 비상대응계획을 수립하는 데 도움이 될 것이다.