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Latest welding technology for storage and transportation facilities of liquified natural gas (LNG저장과 수송설비의 최신용접기술)

  • Kim, Young-Sik;Kil, Sang-Cheol
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2016
  • The need for storage and transportation facilities of liquefied natural gas have increased significantly because of global environmental regulations and recent shale gas innovation in North America. There is severe competition between Korea, Japan, and China for receiving manufacturing orders of LNG carriers or LNG storage tanks. Rationalization of the welding process used in the manufacturing of LNG facilities plays an important role in the above competition. This review paper presents the current global status and tendency for the development of latest welding technologies for LNG storage and transportation facilities. This article intends to present materials for raising the domestic competitive power for receiving manufacturing orders of LNG facilities.

A Study on Characteristics of Pollutants from LNG Facilities (천연가스 사용설비 오염물질 배출특성 연구)

  • Lee, J.S.;Lee, H.C.;You, H.S.;Han, J.O.
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.223-226
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    • 2004
  • The thesis examined the charactcri:stlC of pollutants exhausted from LNG facilities. So, combustion gas and concentration of greenhouse gas exhausted from gas boiler for home use, furnace facilities, electric power facilities, boiler for industrial use and boiler for heating fueled LNG is measured. And the exhaust factor of pollutants is produced by classify of pollutants in detail. And this exhaust factor is compared and investigated with data of a foreign nations.

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A Study on Systematic Risk Assessment Method for LNG Storage Facilities (LNG 저장설비에 대한 체계적인 위험성평가 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Mee-Jin;Lee, Young-Soon;Lee, Seung-Rim
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.14-20
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    • 2009
  • As the consumption of LNG has increased, the capacity and number of LNG facilities are getting bigger and bigger. Such circumstances supports the need for a dedicated risk analysis model to help review and check major issues of the safer construction and operation of LNG storage facilities systematically. Therefore this study suggests an appropriate risk analysis model that enables us to evaluate hazards of LNG storage facilities more easily and systematically, and then to use its result in siting, design and construction stages of the facilities. ill order to develop the model, lots of existing studies and domestic and foreign codes and standards were fully reviewed and a series of case studies also were carried out. The suggested model consists of 4-stage evaluations: in selecting a site, in determining a layout, in designing and constructing the facilities, and in operating them. This model also suggests the weather condition necessary for estimating the consequence of accident-scenarios, and the easy, systematic approach to the analysis of their probability. We expect that the model may help secure LNG storage facilities' inherent safety in determining their site and layout.

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Procedure of Seismic Performance Evaluation of LNG Receiving Terminal Facilities (천연가스 생산기지 시설물의 내진성능평가 절차)

  • Lee, Tae-Hyung;Lee, Eunsuk;Park, Taekyu;Hong, Seong Kyeong;Kim, Joonho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.110-115
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    • 2014
  • It is crucial for important facilities to withstand strong earthquakes because their damage may cause undesirable socio-economic effect. A liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal is one of the lifeline facilities whose seismic safety needs to be guaranteed. Even though all operating LNG receiving terminals in Korea were seismically designed, old design codes do not guarantee to comply with the current seismic design codes. In addition, if the constructional materials have been deteriorated, the seismic capacity of facilities may be also deteriorated. Therefore, it is necessary that the seismic performance of LNG receiving terminals is evaluated and the facilities that lack of seismic capacity have to be rehabilitated. In this paper, a procedure of seismic performance evaluation of such facilities is developed such that the procedure consists of three phases, namely pre-analysis, analysis, and evaluation phases. In the pre-analysis phase, design documents are reviewed and walk-on inspection is performed to determine the current state of the material properties. In the analysis phase, a structural analysis under a given earthquake or a seismic effect is performed to determine the seismic response of the structure. In the evaluation phase, seismic performance of the structure is evaluated based on limit states. Two of the important facilities, i.e. the submerged combustion vaporizer (SMV) and pipe racks of one of the Korean LNG receiving terminals are selected and evaluated according to the developed procedure. Both of the facilities are safe under the design level earthquake.

Study of Process for Offshore LNG Production (해상에서의 LNG 생산을 위한 공정 고찰)

  • Kim, Seung-Hyuk;Ha, Mun-Keun;Kim, Byung-Woo;Sadasivam, M.;Koo, Keun-Hoe
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.119-123
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    • 2002
  • Liquefied Natural Gas(LNG) continues to attract modern gas industries as well as domestic markets as their main energy source in the recent years. This is mainly because LNG is inherently cleaner and more energy efficiency than other fuels. Offshore LNG production plant is of interest to many oil producing companies all over the world. This article discuss about the production process encountered while developing such a production facility. Typical offshore oil and gas processing required for oil stabilization and other optional units that can be added to the facilities. The production process can broadly be divided into five major units namely, (i) Oil Stabilization unit, (ii) Gas Treatment unit, (iii) Methane Recovery unit, (iv) Distillation unit and (v) LNG Liquefaction unit. The process simulation was carried out for each unit with a given wellhead composition. The topside facilities of offshore LNG production plant will be very similar to the process adopted in offshore processing platform along with the typical onshore LNG production plant. However, the process design problems associated with FPSO motion to be taken care of while developing floating LNG production plant.

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A Safety Assessment for 140,000kl $9\%$ Ni Steel Type LNG Storage Tank (140,000kl $9\%$니켈강식 액화천연가스 저장탱크의 안전성 평가)

  • Lee Su Kyung,;Yang Byung Dong,
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.8 no.3 s.24
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2004
  • This study is to assess the safety of the process facilities and fire fighting facilities for LNG storage tank which is the main facility in the LNG receiving terminal. The LNG storage tank(capacity : 140,000kl, type : aboveground, inner tank $9\%$ Ni steel plate, outer tank : prestressed concrete) was designed by foreign country up to now, but it has designed by domestic technology as the fifth in the world is under construction now.

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Feasibility Study of Underground LNG Storage System in Rock Cavern (LNG 지하공동 비축시스템의 타당성분석)

  • Chung, So-Keul;Han, Kong-Chang;Park, Eui-Seob
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.16 no.4 s.63
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    • pp.296-306
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    • 2006
  • It is difficult to solve problems regarding the adjustment on demand and supply of LNG due to seasonal variations of domestic demand of LNG, a discordance among import pattern and limits of storage facilities and so on. Also, there may be instability in LNG supply due to chances of accidents at LNG producing areas. Therefore, it is very important to secure large LNG storage facilities and to stabilize LNG supply management on a long term basis. The objective of this study is to examine the real-scale applicability of a lined underground rock storage system, which have been verified by a successful operation of the Daejeon LNG pilot plant. The new technology has many advantages of better economy, safety and environment protection, for above-ground and in-ground storage systems. The results of this study may promote the first ever real scale underground LNG storage system in a rock cavern.

A Study on Consequence Analysis of LNG/LPG/Gasoline Station (LNG/LPG/가솔린 Station의 사고피해영향평가 비교)

  • Yoo, Jin-Hwan;Kim, Bum-Su;Lee, Heon-Seok;Ko, Euy-Seok;Lee, Gi-Baek
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.54-60
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    • 2009
  • The advancement of industry have increased domestic energy demands and energy facilities such as storage facility, compressed gas pipe, station, and tank lorry. Also, concern about environment have diversified energy source to clean energy such as LNG. In these major energy facilities, major accident can happen to result in fire, explosion, toxic release and etc. In addition, it may cause chain accidents to the adjacent energy facilities. In this research, safety assessment was performed through the consequence analysis of LPG liquefied petroleum gas) station, gasoline station and LNG(liquiefied natural gas) station. The obtained result will be helpful to make a safety guideline of the LPG/LNG station built adjacent to the gasoline station.

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