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Risk Priority Analysis for Preventing Electrical Fires in Food Manufacturing Electrical Facilities (식료품제조업 전기설비의 전기화재방지를 위한 위험우선순위 분석)

  • Seung Ku Lee;Doo Hyun Kim;Sung Chul Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.16-26
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    • 2024
  • This study aims to introduce a method for risk assessment analysis aimed at preventing electrical fires within the manufacturing industry. Initially, we provided a functional block diagram illustrating the electrical equipment employed in various processes within a food manufacturing company in Chungcheongbuk-do. Subsequently, we categorized the components of each machine outlined in the functional block diagram and determined the priority of failure for each classified component. Upon implementing the model in the frying process of the food manufacturing company, specific components, including MC, motor, mixer heater, electric wiring, and terminal block, exhibit a risk priority number (RPN) of 40 or higher. This identified an electrical issue within the manufacturing process and environment. Consequently, we propose a methodology to identify latent failure modes that could escalate into fires or systemic issues if not promptly addressed. It is essential to note that while the FMEA presented in this study may not immediately impact food manufacturing, its applicability extends to various workplaces.

Automatic RF Input Power Level Control Methodology for SAR Measurement Validation

  • Kim, Ki-Hwea;Choi, Dong-Geun;Gimm, Yoon-Myoung
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.181-184
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    • 2015
  • Evaluation of radiating radiofrequency fields from hand-held and body-mounted wireless communication devices to human bodies are conducted by measuring the specific absorption rate (SAR). The uncertainty of system validation and probe calibration in SAR measurement depend on the variation of RF power used for the validation and calibration. RF input power for system validation or probe calibration is controlled manually during the test process of the existing systems in the laboratories. Consequently, a long time is required to reach the stable power needed for testing that will cause less uncertainty. The standard uncertainty due to this power drift is typically 2.89%, which can be obtained by applying IEC 62209 in a normal operating condition. The principle of the Automatic Input Power Level Control System (AIPLC), which controls the equipment by a program that maintains a stable input power level, is suggested in this paper. The power drift is reduced to less than ${\pm}1.16dB$ by AIPLC, which reduces the standard uncertainty of power drift to 0.67%.

A Study on Maximum Speed Test for On-board Signalling Equipment in HEMU-400x (차세대고속열차 차상신호장치 최고속도 시험방안에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Duc-Ko;Lee, Jae-Ho;Lee, Kang-Mi;Kim, Yong-Kyu;Park, Choon-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.670-677
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    • 2009
  • This paper is a study of testing on-board signalling equipment in advanced high speed rail at the maximum speed of 400km/h. The on-board signalling equipment in advanced high speed rail provides operating information to the driver when operating at ATC, ATS, and ATP sections, and maintains safety from driver oversight, signalling equipment malfunction, natural disasters and so on. Since the testing train performance of advanced high speed rail at 400km/h must include the function test of on-board signalling equipment, this thesis focuses on the function test of on-board signalling equipment and analyze the necessity of the test at the maximum speed. Finally, it is suggested to change some infrastructure and to use specific test methods to test the train performance at the maximum speed in high speed line ATC section.

Investigation on Construction Process and Efficiency of Underwater Construction Equipment for Rubble Mound Leveling works (수중 고르기 장비의 건설 공정 및 효율성 분석)

  • Won, Deokhee;Jang, In-Sung;Shin, Changjoo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.372-378
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    • 2016
  • A mound was constructed to install a caisson and sofa blocks underwater. The mound riprap, which were of uniform grade, size, shape, and specific gravity, formed the foundation for the support superstructure. Also, rubble leveling works were performed before installing structures such as caissons. In this study, underwater construction equipment was developed with a remotely controlled operating system and underwater environment monitoring system for unmanned underwater rubble leveling work. The performance of the developed equipment was verified using on-land and underwater tests. In addition to the performance verification, the construction process and economic efficiency of the equipment should be checked before applying it to the real construction field for commercial purposes. In this paper, a construction process using the developed equipment was proposed and compared with the existing rubble leveling method. The results demonstrated that the new construction method has higher economic efficiency and safety than the existing construction method.

A Study on Development of Guideline on Writing Technical Document for Electrical Medical Devices: Dental X-ray Equipment (치과용엑스선장치의 기술문서 작성을 위한 가이드라인 개발 연구)

  • Lee, Seung-Youl;Kim, Jae-Ryang;Lee, Jun-Ho;Park, Chang-Won
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.651-660
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    • 2016
  • Due to recent population aging, the number of check-up for senior citizens has increased steadily. According to this trend, the market size of dental X-ray equipment and the number of approval and review for these devices have simultaneously increased. The technical document of medical device is required for approval and review for medical device, and medical device companies needs to have work comprehension and expertise, as the document needs to include the overall contents such as performances, test criteria, etc.. Yet, since most of domestic manufacturers or importers of medical devices are small businesses, it is difficult for them to recruit professional manpower for approval of medical devices, and submission of inaccurate technical documents has increased. These problems lead to delay of the approval process and to difficulties in quick entering into the market. Especially, the Ministry of Food and Drug safety (MFDS) standards of a dental extra-oral X-ray equipment, a dental intra-oral X-ray equipment, an arm-type computed tomography, and a portable X-ray system have been recently enacted or not. this guideline of dental X-ray equipment adjusting revised standards was developed to help relative companies and reviewers. For this study, first, the methods to write technical document have been reviewed with revised international and domestic regulations and system. Second, the domestic and foreign market status of each item has been surveyed and analyzed. Third, the contents of technical documents already approved by MFDS have been analyzed to select the correct example, test items, criteria, and methods. Finally, the guideline has been developed based on international and domestic regulation, through close review of a consultative body composed of academic, industrial, research institute and government experts.

항공기 시스템 및 항공전자 장비의 낙뢰 간접영향에 대한 감항성 인증

  • Han, Sang-Ho
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.247-259
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    • 2005
  • The interactions of natural atmospheric electricity with aircraft reveals many flight safety problems. It is estimated that on average, each commercial airplane is struck by lightning more than once each year. Thus the lightning strike to aircarft poses an appreciable threat to flight safety. Upset or damage of electrical and electronics equipment by the induced voltages is defined as indirect effect. The protection of aircraft electronics from the indirect effects of lightning can be accomplished first by determining the specific threats to the aircraft and systems contained within, and second, by designing protection methods to the aircraft components.

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Quality characteristics comparative study on the stone board which it processes with the polishing and flame burner (연마와 화염버너로 가공한 석판재의 품질특성 비교연구)

  • Kang Ji-Ho;Jang Myoung-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2004
  • It compared quality characteristics for the stone surface treatment system and its products. With the result, the flame burner equipment was mainly used to the surface treatment of granite, but it occurred greatly the high temperature, the rock fragment, the noise and dust. For the other side, the whetstone polishing machine for the polishing was a maintenance for the specific physical properties of stone, and it did not occur the stone fragment and the dust. The durability of the stone products due to the flame burner was investigated with that it falls to $20\sim25\%$ more than the surface treatment by the whetstone polishing. Share's hardness of the polishing products in the durability test showed more greatly index than the flame burner and conventional product. The polishing products of Pochon stone in the case of the abrasion resistance showed great more $15\%$ than the general products, more $9\%$ than the products by the flame burner.

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A Model Development of Injury Prevention for Application in the Semiconductor Industry (반도체 산업에서의 재해 예방 모델 개발)

  • Yoon, Yong-Gu;Hong, Sung-Man;Park, Peom
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2002
  • It has been Management for stabilize Enterprise-Management for Economic demand for to Productivity, Automation, customer satisfaction, Especially Semiconductor-Industry has been, potential-risk in working to factory to machine equipment, all kinds of utility, gas, chemical, electronic, Fire. This study of basic-purpose has Research Different From as Follow to analysis and Solution For semiconductor product Factory of a actual point Data and specific-gravity to Relation for company-Injury. 1. It has been try to Injury-Tendency and cause-Analysis for our County-Manufacture-Occupation. 2, Semiconductor Injury of Actual-condition in Enforcement for problem and Analysis that Injury Problem has occupated it Submitted to Solution for ordinary Injury theory View to point Solve at for New Model has applicated to that nilem for processed to Solution.

Using Design to Make Doffing of Personal Protective Equipment Safer for Healthcare Workers (의료종사자의 안전한 개인보호장비 탈의를 위한 공간 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Matic, Zorana;Oh, Yeinn;Lim, Lisa
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.17-26
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: This paper presents research evidence that the environmental design of the doffing area in a biocontainment unit (BCU) can have a measurable impact on increasing the safety of frontline healthcare workers (HCW) during doffing of high-level personal protective equipment (PPE), and proposes optimized biocontainment unit design. Methods: From 2016 to 2019, The SimTigrate Design Lab conducted 3 consecutive studies, focusing on ways in which the built environment may support or hinder safe doffing. In the first study, to identify the risky behaviors, we observed 56 simulation exercises with HCWs in 4 BCUs and 1 high-fidelity BCU mockup. In the second study, we tested the effectiveness of a redesigned doffing area on improving the HCWs performance and used simulation, observation, and rapid prototyping in 1 high-fidelity mockup of a doffing area. In a follow-up study, we used simulation and co-design with HCWs to optimize the design of a safer doffing area in a full-size pediatric BCU mock-up. Results: We identified 11 specific risky behaviors potentially leading to occupational injury, or contamination of the PPE, or of the environment. We developed design strategies to create a space for safer doffing. In the second study, in a redesigned doffing area, the overall performance of HCW improved, and we observed a significant decrease in the number of risky behaviors; some risky behaviors were eliminated. There was a significant decrease in physical and cognitive load for the HCWs. Finally, we propose an optimized layout of a BCU for a safer process of PPE doffing. Implications: The proposed BCU design supports better staff communication, efficiency, and automates safer behaviors. Our findings can be used to develop design guidelines for spaces where patients with other highly infectious diseases are treated when the safety of the patient-facing HCWs is of critical importance.

Repair and Replacement Methodology for Electrical Equipment Used in Nuclear Power Plants (원자력발전소 전기기기의 보수, 교체 방법론)

  • Park, Chulhee;Park, Wan-gyu;Lee, Manbok;Kim, Choon-sam
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2018.07a
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    • pp.177-179
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    • 2018
  • After Fukushima nuclear accident at 2011, nuclear industrial has been focused on operation and maintenance phase, not design and construction phase. Continued good operating performance of nuclear power plants has been the best critical issue to nuclear utilities. Replacement for complete components as well as parts of components is being procured because nuclear utilities must maintain safety and reliability of operating nuclear power plants. However, many suppliers and manufacturers are giving up a nuclear quality assurance program under reduction in new construction of nuclear power plants. It is able to be increased difficulty in procuring spare parts to support operations and maintenance of nuclear power plants. Over 20% of nuclear power plant equipment in some countries is obsolete. Owing to obsolescence of nuclear safety-related items and/or withdrawing a nuclear quality assurance program of suppliers and manufactures, some replacement item and part might be procured to the item not covered by appendix B to USNRC 10 CFR Part 50. Under various methods of the nuclear repair and replacement methodology, utilities are supposed to establish a typical program for a repair and replacement of an electrical equipment and its parts in conjunction with a nuclear quality assurance. Concerning this typical program, this study suggests the repair and replacement methodology of electrical equipments used in nuclear power plants by procurement of a power supply, based on nuclear regulations, codes, standards, guidelines, specific and general technical information, etc..

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