• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.82-88
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• 2016

Resource development is needed in order to develop the industry. However, because resources are running out, there is a growing interest in the arctic regions. If you want to develop resources in cold regions, it is necessary to understand the environment there and it should be a priority to secure proper technology for construction. In particular, thaw settlement, which frequently occur in Arctic regions, have a fatal effect on essential pipeline needed to transport resources. Therefore, it is important to analyze how piping will be impacted by thaw settlement. In this study, we developed 3-D FEM model in order to analyze the influence of the buried depth of the pipe at the time of thaw settlement. We analyzed a displaced pipe which is subjected to stress and considered Elasto-plastic, using the finite element analysis according to these Arctic environments.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.17-26
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• 2016

Characteristic behaviors of geo-structure during freezing and thawing process have to be understood based on fundamental knowledge on phase change in porous soil and interaction between soil and structure. Inversion analysis using published one-dimensional soil freezing tests was conducted to suggest a mechanical model to consider an effect of the ice saturation on Young's modulus. Silty soil was more sensitive to temperature than weathered granite soil and sand, and weathered granite soil was more affected by initial water saturation in stiffness decrease than silty soil. Numerical simulations on chilled gas pipeline showed that shielding effect from surrounding frozen zone around the pipe decreases impact from external load onto the pipe. And a pipe installed in sand backfill showed more heaving due to relatively low stiffness of sand during freezing than that of surrounding in-situ weather granite soil. However, it had more stable stress condition due to effective stress redistribution from external load.

• Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.106-112
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• 2017

The present study describes flow induced noise generated from a ball valve used for a gas pipeline. Noise generation from a ball valve mainly induces by interference between unstable(or fluctuating) leakage flow and pipe wall when the ball valve is working closed or opened. To measure the positions of the noise source and the amplitude of noise with respect to measuring frequencies, a commercial acoustic camera is introduced. Noise characteristics generated by the ball valve have been performed by four valve opening rates: 30, 50, 70 and 100 percents. It is noted that 100 percent opening rate means that the valve is fully opened. Throughout the experimental measurements using the acoustic camera, the location of the noise source and the noise amplitude with respect to the frequencies for the test ball valve are clearly evaluated. It is found that the dominant frequencies come from the fluctuating flow at the downstream of the ball valve for four opening rates are observed between 3,000Hz and 3,200Hz. Maximum noise amplitude comes from the ball valve reaches 75dB at the valve opening rate of 50 percent.

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.27-33
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• 2000

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.133-138
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• 2009

For the corrosion protection of the natural gas transmission pipelines, two methods are used, cathodic protection and coating technique. In the case of cathodic protection, defects are embrittled by occurring hydrogen at the crack tip or material surface. It is however very important to evaluate whether cracks in the embrittled area can grow or not, especially in weld metal. In this work, on the basis of elastic plastic fracture mechanics, we performed the CTOD testing with various test conditions, such as testing rate and potential. The CTOD of the base metal and the weld metal showed a strong dependence of the test conditions. The CTOD decreased with decreasing testing rate and with increasing cathodic potential. The morphology of the fracture surface showed the quasi-cleavage at low testing rate and cathodic overprotection. The low CTOD was caused by hydrogen embrittlement at crack tip.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.20-26
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• 2009

The dominant incidents category for onshore and offshore natural gas transmission pipelines in the world is associated with outside forces. Incidents in the outside forces category embrace acts of nature, which typically cause widespread structural damage, as well as act of man, whose effects tend to cause dents and/or gouges localized at point of contact that are referred to as mechanical damage. Therefore, these damage types must be better addressed to avoid unnecessary and costly repairs and the possibility of catastrophic events. First of all, the characterizing features of mechanical damage in gas pipelines were evaluated by using of excavator or boring machine. There is no reliable method for evaluating the safe operating pressure of pipeline affected by mechanical damage. It is especially important to evaluate the remaining strength of damaged pipelines due to outside force. Therefore, the full scale burst tests were conducted to evaluate the remaining strength of pipe with mechanical damage that combines a dent and a gouge. This paper is supposed to provide information that will assist in developing a criterion to assess serviceability in pipelines with mechanical damage.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.10
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• pp.1131-1137
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• 2012

Subsea pipelines have been operated with buried depths of 1.2-4m underneath the seabed to prevent buoyancy and external impacts. Therefore, they have to show resistance to both the soil load and the hydrostatic pressure. In this study, the structural integrity of a subsea pipeline subjected to soil load and hydrostatic pressure was evaluated by using FE analyses. A parametric study showed that the internal pressure increased the plastic collapse depth by increasing the resistance to plastic collapse. The hoop stress increased with an increase in the buried depth for the same water depth; however, the hoop stress decreased with an increase in the water depth for the same buried depth.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.137-140
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• 2011

시설의 안전성 평가에 대한 연구는 안전성에 영향을 주는 데이터를 정량화하여 획일적인 자동 수행하는 안전관리가 주를 이루고 있다. 이와 달리 자율수행은 수집 된 상황 정보나 상태 데이터를 이용하여 안전성을 예측하고 사고 위험성을 경보하여 사고를 예방 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 시설물 중에서 가스배관의 부식에 대한 판단을 위해서 신경망의 대표적 비지도학습인 자기조직화지도를 적용한다. SOM의 적용에서는 주변효과를 보완하기 위해서 관계적관점지도로 맵을 구성한다. 학습 할 데이터는 가스배관의 방식전위이다. 배관의 부식상태를 확인하기 위하여 수집 된 데이터인 방식전위에는 부식에 대한 위험요인이 내재되어 있다. 학습 후 새로운 데이터가 입력되면 각 상태 군집의 중심뉴런과 맵핑된 뉴런의 유사도를 측정하여 배관의 부식상태를 결정한다. 제안 된 방법으로 판단 된 결과를 기존에 사람이 판단한 결과와 비교하여 검증한다. 이를 통해 배관의 부식상태를 자율적이고 신속하게 판단하여 지능화 된 가스배관 관리로 활용한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.54-59
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• 2011

Generally, the flow hunting is observed in almost all of the orifice meters but the intensity of the flow hunting is different at each metering system. In order to investigate the relations between pipe diameter and the flow instability or the flow hunting in a real metering system, a one-dimensional pipeline network model was built and analyzed for the examination of flow characteristics and relations to the flow hunting, changing diameters of the meter and the pipes before and after the meter. Finally, the effects of pressuredifference variation and flow hunting following to the variations of the diameters of the meter and the pipes before and after the meter were investigated and the relations were examined as well.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.248-252
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• 2007

This article is related to the possibility for continuous operation of a liquid rocket engine when a portion of cryogenic propellant in the pipeline is vaporized. As a result of experimental studies imitating the formation of vapors in the flow, we confirmed the possibility of full gas-phase condensation in case temperature of cryogenic liquid is lower than it's saturation temperature in the pipeline. Empirical equation allowing to calculate a nonequilibrium condensation region in the steady flow of cryogenic liquid was obtained as a non-dimensional form and the fields of practical application were suggested.