• 에너지공학
• /
• 제23권4호
• /
• pp.223-229
• /
• 2014

본 연구는 시뮬레이션 툴을 이용해 HCNG 연료의 폭발 특성에 대하여 고찰하였다. 충전소의 대량 가스누출로 인한 증기운 폭발과 저장용기 폭발에 의한 피해 범위를 예측하였다. HCNG 충전소에서 증기운 폭발이 발생할 경우 충전소 내부에 50~200kPa의 폭발압력이 형성되었다. 저장용기가 폭발할 경우 수소의 경우 과압이 미치는 거리는 59m, 복사열이 미치는 거리는 75m로 측정되었다. CNG의 경우 과압이 미치는 거리는 89m, 복사열이 미치는 거리는 144m로 예측되었다. 수소와 CNG를 혼합한 30%HCNG의 경우 과압이 미치는 거리는 81m, 복사열이 미치는 거리는 130m로 예측되었다. 폭발과압 및 복사열이 미치는 피해거리는 CNG가 가장 높게 나타났으며 HCNG는 CNG와 수소의 사이에 위치하였다.

• 한국안전학회지
• /
• 제37권4호
• /
• pp.92-100
• /
• 2022

Of the Korean military's 3,959 ammunition depots, 1,007 - more than 25% - violate safety requirements for distance and equipment. There is a risk of explosion in old depots that are vulnerable to various interior and exterior accidents. This paper examines 10 scenarios, with varying values for ammunition amount and safety distance. The study calculated the overpressure that can be applied to risk-exposure objects, based on the safety distance; expected damage was predicted using constructed spatial information from 3D explosion simulations. The simulations confirmed that explosion overpressure increased the most when the safety distance violation rate increased from 80% to 90%. It also confirmed that secondary damage such as fire and explosion can cause casualties and property damage when the violation rate is 60% or higher. The results show that building collapse becomes a risk with a violation rate of 70% or higher. We conclude that taking ammunition depot safety distance violation into account when planning military facilities and their land utilization could better protect life and property.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
• /
• 제4권3호
• /
• pp.35-43
• /
• 2002

For the unconfined vapor cloud explosion accident by the continuous release of gas-liquid flow of various saturated liquids in a vessel at ground level, overpressures were estimated and analyzed with various release conditions and materials by TNT equivalency model with vapor dispersion. We found that at same release conditions, overpressure showed n-heptane > xylene > n-hexane > toluene > n-heptane > benzene, respectively and that overpressure was increased with increasing the hole diameter and the storage pressure, but it was increased with decreasing the wind speed, the interested distance, and the vessel thickness.

• 산업진흥연구
• /
• 제9권2호
• /
• pp.37-44
• /
• 2024

본 연구는 석유 화학사 생산공장에 설치된 스티렌 모노머 저장 탱크의 화구(fireball)와 증기운 폭발(VCE)에 대한 최악의 시나리오를 선정하고 피해 예측 및 사고영향을 분석하였다. 혼합잔사유 저장 탱크의 주성분인 스티렌 모노머 이상중합반응 시 화구(fireball)와 증기운 폭발(VCE)로 인한 복사열과 과압의 영향 범위는 e-CA 사고 피해 예측 프로그램을 적용하여 정량 분석하였다. 복사열과 폭발 과압의 피해 영향 범위는 각 최대 반경 1,150m와 626m로 분석된다. 복사열 4kW/m²이 미치는 1,150m 이내 사람은 20초 동안 노출 시 피부가 부풀어 오를 수 있다. 폭발 과압 21kPa이 미치는 626m 이내 건축물은 철 구조물의 손상과 기초에서 이탈될 수 있고, 사람은 신체 부상할 수 있다. 화재, 폭발 또는 누출 사고 발생 시 복사열, 과압에 의한 사업장 내 근로자, 인근 주민 또는 주변 시설물 등의 위험 정도와 수용 여부 위험 기준을 판단하고, 취급 물질 유해·위험성 파악, 비상대응체계 구축, 개선 및 투자 활동 등을 통해 사업장 피해 최소화 대책을 수립하는 데 도움이 될 것으로 기대한다.

• Architectural research
• /
• 제15권3호
• /
• pp.151-158
• /
• 2013

Offshore oil and gas process plants are exposed to hazardous accidents such as explosion and fire, so that the structural components should resist such accidental loads. Given the possibilities of thousands of different scenarios for the occurrence of an accidental hazard, the best way to predict a reasonable size of a specific accidental load would be the employment of a probabilistic approach. Having the fact that a specific procedure for probabilistic accidental hazard analysis has not yet been established especially for explosion and fire hazards, it is widely accepted that engineers usually take simple and conservative figures in assuming uncertainties inherent in the procedure, resulting either in underestimation or more likely in overestimation in the topside structural design for offshore plants. The variation in the results of a probabilistic approach is determined by the assumptions accepted in the procedures of explosion probability computation, explosion analysis, and structural analysis. A design overpressure load for a sample offshore plant is determined according to the proposed probabilistic approach in this study. CFD analysis results using a Flame Acceleration Simulator, FLACS_v9.1, are utilized to create an overpressure hazard curve. Moreover, the negative impulse and frequency contents of a blast wave are considerably influencing structural responses, but those are completely ignored in a widely used triangular form of blast wave. An idealistic blast wave profile deploying both negative and positive pulses is proposed in this study. A topside process module and piperack with blast wall are 3D FE modeled for structural analysis using LS-DYNA. Three different types of blast wave profiles are applied, two of typical triangular forms having different impulse and the proposed load profile. In conclusion, it is found that a typical triangular blast load leads to overestimation in structural design.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
• /
• 제14권3호
• /
• pp.21-28
• /
• 2018

This paper presents two-step simulations to calculate the influence of blast-induced pressures on explosion-protection valves installed at the boundary between a protection facility and a tunnel entering the facility. The first step is to calculate the respective overpressure on the entrance and exit of the tunnel when an explosion occurs near the tunnel entrance and exit to approach the protection facility. Secondly, the blast pressures on the explosion-protection valves mounted to walls located near the tunnel inside approaching the protection facility are analyzed with a 0.1 ms time variation using the results obtained from the first-step calculations. The following conclusions could be derived as a results: (1) The analysis of the entrance tunnel scenario, P1, leads to the maximum overpressure of 47 kPa, approximately a half of the ambient pressure, at the inner entrance due to the effect of blast barrier. For the scenario, P2, the case not blocked by the barrier, the maximum overpressure is 628 kPa, which is relatively high, namely, 5.2 times the ambient pressure. (2) It is observed that the pressure for the entrance tunnel is effectively mitigated because the initial blast pressures are partially offset from each other according to the geometry of the entrance and a portion of the pressures is discharged to the outside.

• 한국안전학회지
• /
• 제25권1호
• /
• pp.44-49
• /
• 2010

This paper is estimation of structure damage caused by Explosion in LPG(Liquefied Petroleum Gas) filling station. As we estimate the influence of damage which occur at gas storage tank in filling station. We can utilize the elementary data of safety distance. In this study, the influence of over-pressure caused by VCE(Vapor Cloud Explosion) in filling station was calculated by using the Hopkinson's scaling law and the accident damage was estimated by applying the influence on the adjacent structure into the probit model. As a result of the damage estimation conducted by using the probit model, both the damage possibility of explosion overpressure to structures of max 265 meters away and to glass bursting of 1150 meters away was nearly zero in open space explosion.

• 한국연소학회지
• /
• 제20권1호
• /
• pp.1-5
• /
• 2015

Fire and explosion analysis are performed for the quantitative risk assessment on the LNG test plant. From the analysis for a case of fire due to large leakage of LNG from the tank, it is obtained that loss of lives can be occurred within the radius of 60 m from the fire origin. Specially, wind can extend the extent of damage. Because the LNG test plant is not enclosed, the explosion overpressure is less than 6 kPa and the explosion has little effect on the integrity of the LNG test plant.

• 한국가스학회지
• /
• 제3권2호
• /
• pp.77-84
• /
• 1999

본 연구에서는 경기도 부천시 OOO소재의 위험물 판매 취급소인 XX상사를 표준모델로 선정하여 여기서 취급하는 제 4류 위험물에 대한 위험성 평가를 실시하고 아울러 바로 길건너 맞은편의 약 20m 거리에 위치한 LPG 충전소에 대한 위험성 평가도 아울러 실시하였다. 본 연구에서의 위험성평가를 위해서는 PHAST와 Super-Chem 소프트웨어를 이용하였으며 이러한 Simulation 결과를 이용하여 분석한 결과 물질 중 아세톤의 경우 TNO 모델에 의한 복사열 평가에 의해 설비에 손상을 줄 수 있는 $37.5kw/m^2$에 해당하는 거리는 PHAST 모델의 경우 68.51m에 이르렀으며, Super-Chem 모델의 경우는 40.9,3m에 이르렀다. LPG 충전소에 대한 Simulation 결과 Fireball 지름은 125.2m에 이르며 Fireball의 높이는 206.2m에 이른다. 또한, 그 지속시간은 11.28초로 계산되었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
• /
• 제31권11호
• /
• pp.936-941
• /
• 2007

This paper is on the influence of gas explosion caused by Vapor Cloud Explosion(VCE). Also, it is to understand the influence of the booth for explosion experiment which is installed to let the trainees for legal education which is managed by IGTT(Institute or Gas Technology Training) know the riskiness of explosion. In this study, the influence of explosion shock wave caused by VCE in enclosure was calculated by using the Hopkinson's scaling law and the accident damage was estimated by applying the influence on the adjacent human into the probit model. As a result of the damage estimation conducted by using the probit model, both the damage possibility of explosion overpressure to human 8 meters away and that of shock wave to hurt 15 meters away showed nothing.