• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.8-10
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• 2014

정부의 북극항로 시험운항이 시행된 2013년 NSR횡단 선박 척수는 전년도에 비해 54%가 늘어난 71척에 이르렀으나 실제 화물수송량은 당초 예상량인 150만톤에도 못 미치는 1,355,897톤으로 전년도에 비해 7.5% 증가에 그치고 말았다. 이는 2013년 하절기 북극해의 얼음이 2012년도에 비해 훨씬 적게 녹았기 때문으로 분석되고 있다. 그러나 지구온난화로 인한 전체적인 해빙 크기의 감소추세는 큰 틀에서 벗어나지 않고 있으므로 NSR의 선점을 위해서는 화물의 경제성 평가와 더불어 고효율선의 운항에 대비할 필요가 있다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.1044-1048
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• 2015

Recently, the viability of the Northern Sea Route has been receiving a remarkable amount of attention. Owing to global warming, glaciers in the Arctic Ocean have been melting rapidly, which has opened up navigation routes for ships with commercial as well as research purposes. At present, vessels can be economically operated along the Northern Sea Route four months of the year. However, studies have shown that the economical operating time may increase to six months by 2020 and year-round by 2030. Even though the conditions of the Northern Sea Route are extreme, the main reason for its use is that the route is shorter than the existing route using the Suez Canal, which provides an economic benefit. In addition, 25% of the world's oil reserves and 30% of its natural gas are stored in the coastal areas of the East Siberian Arctic region. Many factors are leading to the expectation of commercial navigation using the Northern Sea Route in the near future. To satisfy future demand, the International Maritime Organization established the Polar Code in order to ensure navigation safety in polar waters; this is expected to enter into force on January 1, 2017. According to the code, a ship needs to reduce its speed and analyze the ice for safe operation before entering into it. It is necessary to enter an ice field at a right angle to break the ice safely and efficiently. This study examined the operation along the course for safe navigation of the passage under several conditions. The results will provide guidelines for traffic officers who will operate ships in the Arctic Ocean.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.175-185
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• 2008

One of the concerns that arise during navigation in ice-covered waters is the magnitude of ice loads encountered by ships. However, the accurate estimation of ice loads still remains as a rather difficult task in the design of icebreaking vessels. This paper focuses on the development of simple ice load prediction formulas for the icebreaking cargo vessels. The maximum ice loads are expected from unbroken ice sheet and these loads are most likely to be concentrated at the bow area. Published ice load data for icebreaking vessels, from the model tests and also from full-scale sea trials, are collected and then several ice load prediction formulas are compared with these data. Finally, based on collected data, a semi-empirical ice load prediction formula is recommended for the icebreaking cargo vessels.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.19-26
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• 2014

International attention on the Northern Sea Route has been increased as the decreased sea-ice extents in Northern Sea raise the possibility to develop new sea routes and natural resources. However, to protect ships' safety and pristine environments in polar waters, International Maritime Organization(IMO) has been developing the Polar Code to regulate polar shipping. The marine navigation supporting system is essential for ships traveling long distance in the Northern Sea as they are affected by ocean weather and sea-ice. Therefore, to cope with the IMO Polar Code, this research proposes the functional requirements to develop the marine navigation supporting system for the Northern Sea Route. The functional requirements derived from the IMO Polar code consist of arctic voyage risk map, arctic voyage planning and MSI(Marine Safety Information) methods, based on which the navigation supporting system is able to provide dynamic and safe-economical sea route service using the sea-ice observation and prediction technologies. Also, a requirement of the system application is derived to apply the marine navigation supporting system for authorizing ships operating in the Northern Sea. To reflect the proposed system in the Polar Code, continual international exchange and policy proposals are necessary along with the development of sea-ice observation and prediction technologies.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.73-97
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• 1991

The analysis and investigation are described for White's[2] equations compared to the equations of Runeburg[3] and Milano[5] for continuous icebreaking mode, Tunik[8-1] and Ghoneim[8-2] for ramming icebreaking mode. Calculation results compare reasonably well with published model-scale and full-scale icebreaker data by Baker[1] and Dick[11]. During continuous and ramming mode operation, using characteristics of an incebreaker, down ward force on ice and standard ice thickness broken are predicted. Additionally draft, trim and extraction difficulty are also predicted. The bow part line of an icebreakin $g^{ply}$ vessel is designed aiming to maximize the ice breaking capabiltiy as following conditions-low bow angle[20 degrees] at designed waterline, small spread angle complement [6 degrees] at designed waterline, small spread angle complement [6 degrees] and high propeller thrust [220tons]. with plow, two reamers and wave type bumper.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.129-135
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• 2013

Recently, waste water treatment system is developed in small and middle size to get more economic advantage. Freeze concentration system has high thermodynamic efficiency and low energy consumption, can re-use purified water and cold energy obtained from ice. This study was experimentally performed to investigate pollution containment in frozen layer by cooling wall temperature, air-bubble flow methods, initial ice-lining thickness of frozen layer in NaCl aqueous solution and the representative heavy metals, Pb and Cr aqueous solution. As the result, a decrease in the cooling wall temperature bring a higher growth rate of ice front and the more solute was involved in frozen layer. The method to inject directly air-bubble into ice-liquid interface through ring shape nozzle gave high purity of ice compared to indirect method. Ice lining in 5mm thickness resulted in frozen layer with higher purity than 1mm thickness.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.420-427
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• 2024

This study proposes a method for utilizing flight and flow - information for a collaborative environment (FF-ICE) for flight plan management based system wide information management (SWIM) technology for the safe and efficient operation of urban air mobility (UAM). SWIM provides a standardized infrastructure for air traffic data, enabling seamless information exchange among various stakeholders. This study purposed flight plan procedures for UAM operation regarding submitting preliminary and filed flight plans, validation and operational evaluation processes, state management, and the roles of each stakeholder. The system developed through the SWIM infrastructure for low-density urban air mobility traffic management. The study are expected to significantly enhance the safety and efficiency of UAM operations through strategic flight plan management methods.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.71-75
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• 2010

This study is experimented to observe an influence of experimental conditions on production characteristics of slurry ice by injection operating water to cooling plate. And at this experiment it used ethylene glycol-water solution and the concentration is 10 to 20wt%. The experimental apparatus was constructed of ethylene glycol-water solution and slurry ice storage tank, brine tank, pumps for ethylene glycol-water solution and brine circulating, a mass flow-meter, data logger for fluid temperature measuring and a vertical circular tube with single copper plate as test section. The experiments were carried out under various conditions, with mean velocity of fluid at the entry ranging from 1.0 to 2.0m/s and the cooling temperature of $-17^{\circ}C$ to $-10^{\circ}C$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.137-138
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• 2010

It is prospected that commercialization of the Arctic route come to faster than an anticipation due to acceleration of the melting of Arctic ice as a result of global warmness and etc. Since 1979 from the start of the satellite observation, the ice areas of the Arctic ocean came to decrease about 40 % in summer season For the commercial use of the Arctic route, it must be settled some problems including the navigation for the vessels in the EEZ of the related nations before considering about economic basis. It is also needed to build special ships which satisfy to the condition of the Arctic climate for the technical factors of ship handling and should be carried out completion of the special educational program to be approved for the seamen through the cooperation with the coastal nations. The information system for the Arctic route should be developed.

• Strategy21
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• s.43
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• pp.29-55
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• 2018

Arctic sea ice has been retreating as a result of the global warming. Arctic sea ice extent for April 2018 averaged 13.71 million square kilometers. This figure shows far less sea ice compared to the average extent from 1981 to 2010. Meanwhile, 287 times of maritime transits through the Northwest Passage have been made during the 2017 and the first ship traversed the Northern Sea Route without the assistant of ice-breaker in August 2017. Commercialization of the Arctic Passage means significant economic and strategic advantages by shortening the distance. In this article, 'Arctic Passage' means Northern Sea Route along the Arctic coast of Russia and Northwest Passage crossing Canadian Arctic Ocean. As climate changes, the potential feasibility of the Arctic Passage has been drawing international attention. Since navigation in this area remains hazardous in some aspects, IMO adopted Polar Code to promote safe, secure and sustainable shipping through the Arctic Passage. Futhermore, Russia and Canada regulate foreign vessels over the maritime zones with the authority to unilaterally exercise jurisdiction pursuant to the Article 234 of UNCLOS. The dispute over the navigation regime of the arctic passage materialized with Russia proclaimed Dmitrii Laptev and Sannikov Straits as historically belong to U.S.S.R. in the mid 1960s and Canada declared that the waters of the passage are historic internal waters in 1973 for the first time. So as to support their claims, In 1985, Russia and Canada established straight baseline including Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passage. The United States has consistently protested that the Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passage are straits used for international navigation which are subject to the regime of transit passage. Firstly, it seems that Russia and Canada do not meet the basic requirements for acquiring a historic title. Secondly, since the Law of the Sea had adopted before the establishment of straight baseline over the Russian Arctic Archipelago and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Ships can exercise at least the right of innocent passage. Lastly, Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passage have fulfilled the both geographical and functional criteria pertaining to the strait used for international navigation under the international law. Especially, should the arctic passage become commercially viable, it can be expected to accumulate the functional criterion. Russia and Canada regulate the ships navigate in their maritime zones by adopting the higher degree of an environmental standard than generally accepted international rules and standard mainly under the Article 234 of UNCLOS. However, the Article 234 must be interpreted restrictively as this contains constraint on the freedom of navigation. Thus, it is reasonable to consider that the Article 234 is limited only to the EEZ of coastal states. Therefore, ships navigating in the Arctic Passage with the legal status of the territorial sea and the international straits under the law of the sea have the right of innocent passage and transit passage as usual.