• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.161-172
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• 2014

Hydrogen, which can be produced from abundant and widely distributed renewable energy resources, seems to be a promising candidate for solving the concerns for improving energy security, urban air pollution, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The two primary motivating factors for hydrogen economy are fossil fuel supply limitations and concerns about global warming. But the safety issues associated with hydrogen economy need to be investigated and fully understood before being considered as a future energy source. Limited operating experience with hydrogen energy systems in consumer environments is recognised as a significant barrier to the implementation of hydrogen economy. To prevent unnecessary restrictions on emerging codes, standards and local regulations, safety policies based on real hazards should be developed. This article studies briefly the direct impact-distances from hazard events such as hydrogen release and jet fire, and damage levels from hydrogen gas explosion in a confined space. Based on the direct impact-distances indicated in the accident scenarios and consumer environments in Korea, the safety policies, which are related to hydrogen filling station, hydrogen fuel cell car, portable fuel cell, domestic fuel cells, and hydrogen town, are suggested to implement hydrogen economy. To apply the safety policies and overcome the disadvantages of prescriptive risk management, which is setting guidance in great detail to management well known risk but is not covering unidentified risk, hybrid risk management model is also proposed.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2005

변성가스의 폭발특성을 평가하기 위하여, 산소농도 변화와 수소의 첨가에 따른 변성가스 조성을 변화시켜 폭발거동에 대한 실험을 행하였다. 이러한 실험을 행한 결과 산소농도 $21\%$에서 변성가스와 수소의 농도가 증가할수록 폭발하한계는 낮아졌으며, 산소농도 $6\%$에서 폭발한계산소농도를 구하였다. 변성가스의 최대폭발압력은 $4.61 kg_f/cm^2$의 최적값을 얻었고, 이때 최대폭발압력상승속도는 변성가스 농도 $40\%$에서 $130.75 kg_f/cm^2/s$를 구하였다. 또한 폭발에 필요한 최소점화에너지는 변성가스 농도 $50\%$에서 0.13 mJ를 구하였다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.119-133
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• 2005

In the June, 1991, there was the explosion in which methanol rectified column as a part of the new surface active agent's manufacturing processes. The type of explosion was estimated as the 'detonation'. The methanol rectified column was ruined, and broken pieces of the column were scattered within 900m. Also, there were victims such as the two deads and thirteen wounded persons. The cause of the explosion was heat explosion by being concentrated locally from 0.1% to several tens% of supply fluid at Metal Hydroperoxide, which was produced by methanol and hydrogen peroxide used as the bleach of surface active agent, during the operation stoppage process of methanol rectified column.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.1-9
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• 1995

The mechanism of various spherical particles formation from wide range of tribo-systerns is suggested and deduced by the action of micro-explosion on the basis of the thermally-activated wear theory, in which the flash temperature at contact could be reached clearly upto the material molten temperature due to the secondary activation energy from the exothermic reactions involving lubricant thermo-decomposition, metals oxidation, hydrogen reactions and other possible complex thermo-reactions at the contacts. Various shapes of spherical particles generated from the tribosystem can be explained by the toroidal action of micro-explosion accompanied with the complex thermo-chemical reactions at the contact surfaces or sub-surfaces.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.551-564
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• 2021

The use of clean energy based on the hydrogen economy is increasing rapidly due to the greenhouse gas reduction policies and the increase in the need for hydrogen. Currently, South Korea government have been considering a plan to construct hydrogen refueling stations at expressway service area for the purpose of supplying hydrogen vehicles. In the case of a hydrogen refueling stations, a quantitative risk assessment (QRA) must be performed because it includs and uses a high pressurized hydrogen storage tank. In this study, QRA was conducted using societal risk and F-N curve by the consequence assessment (CA) of jet fire and explosion according to the population density, capacity of the high pressurized hydrogen storage tank and frequency assessment (FA) data to the general hydrogen refueling stations systems in expressway service area. In the cases of jet with a leak diameter of 7.16 mm, regardless of expressway service area location, the societal risk was over 1E-04 that was acceptable for as Low As reasonably practicable (ALARP) region (workforce), but unacceptable for ALARP region (public). In the cases of gas explosion, all expressway service area satisfy ALARP region. In the case of the population density is over 0.0727, QRA for constructing the hydrogen refueling stations, must be conducted.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.47-60
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• 2021

수소는 차세대 에너지원으로서 수소경제 활성화 로드 맵에 따라 수소를 안정적으로 생산·저장·운송하기 위한 산업과 더불어 수소차의 보급이 급속도로 이루어질 것으로 예상된다. 이에 따라 터널과 같은 반밀폐공간에서의 수소차의 사고에 대비한 안전대책이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 도로터널에서 수소차량의 안전성을 확보하기 위한 연구의 일환으로 터널 내 수소차 사고에 따른 다양한 위험요인 중 가스 누출에 따른 화재와 폭발의 위험성에 대한 기초적인 조사·연구를 수행하였으며, 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 수소차 사고 시 가스누출속도는 TPRD의 오리피스직경에 의존하며, 가스가 점화되는 경우에 최대화재강도는 오리피스직경에 따라 3.22~51.36 MW (오리피스직경: 1~4 mm)에 도달하나 지속시간이 짧기 때문에 화재로 인한 위험의 가중은 거의 없는 것으로 분석되었다. 등가 TNT방법에 의해서 폭발에 따른 과도압력을 계산하였으므로 폭발수율을 0.2적용하는 경우, 안전한계 거리는 대략 35 m 정도로 분석되고 등가사망자는 보수적인 관점에서 수십 명 정도에 달할 것으로 예측된다.

• 천문학논총
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.169-177
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• 1993

Observed spectra of supernovae allow the empirical classification of supernovae into two basic categories, Type I with little or no evidence of hydrogen, and Type II with obvious evidence for hydrogen. The broad class of Type I can be subdivided depending on whether helium or silicon and other intermediate mass elements is observed. Understanding the physical processes that underlie these classifications---the progenitor evolution. the explosion mechanism, and end products---requires calculation of radiative transfer and model spectra. While most Type II occur in evolved massive stars that undergo core collapse. some may span the dividing line between degenerate and non-degenerate carbon burning and involve both core collapse and thermonuclear explosion. Type Ia are still most plausibly explained as thermonuclear explosions in carbon/oxygen white dwarfs in binary systems. Type Ib reveal helium atmospheres and are probably the result of core collapse in the helium core of a massive star that has lost its hydrogen envelope to a binary companion or to a wind. Type Ic supernovae are probably related to Type Ib but have also lost their helium envelope to reveal a mantle rich in oxygen.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.105-114
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• 2013

Lots of orders of special vessels and offshore plants for developing the resources in deepwater have been increased in recent. Because the most of accidents on those structures are caused by fire and explosion, many researchers have been investigated quantitatively to predict the cause and effect of fire and explosion based on both experiments and numerical simulations. The first step of the evaluation procedures leading to fire and explosion is to predict the dispersion of flammable or toxic material, in which the released material mixes with surrounding air and be diluted. In particular turbulent mixing, but density differences due to molecular weight or temperature as well as diffusion will contribute to the mixing. In the present paper, the numerical simulation of hydrogen dispersion inside a simple-shaped offshore structure was performed using a commercial CFD program, ANSYS-CFX. The simulated results for concentration of released hydrogen are compared to those of experiment and other simulation in Jordan et al.(2007). As a result, it is seen that the present simulation results are closer to the experiments than other simulation ones. Also it seems that the hydrogen dispersion is closely related to turbulent mixing and the selection of the turbulence model properly is significantly of importance to the reproduction of dispersion phenomena.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.35-42
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• 1992

Ignition energy effects of concentration of mixed gas In closed cylindrical vessel(1, 832㎤) are studied. The ignition energy ranged from 25 Joule to 110 Joule, and hidrogen and methane gases were used for flammable gas at stoichiometric condition with oxygen gas and nitrogen gas (N2) was for inert gas, which concentration was maximum 60% . The explosion pressure, temperature, concentration of product gases were calculated. It is found that - The explosion pressure and explosion velocity increase with ignition energy. - The gradience of explosion velocity with ignition energy is steeper than explosion pressure. - The results of calculation are similiar with results of experiment. - NOx is not serious product gas for methane and hydrogen gas, but CO is serious at certain concentration for methane in asphyxiation.

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 2004년도 추계학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.64-69
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• 2004