• 한국안전학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.86-92
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• 1997

Demand of LPG and LNG will increase continuously due to high calories, clearness, and convenience for usage. These gases are used widely for power plants, industrial plants, and domestic fuel. But accidents related with gas are increasing in proportion to increment of gas usage. Especially LPG has high ignitability due to weak dispersion to air and accumulation at low place because LPG is heavier than air. There are many hazards during transportation as well as production, storage, and usage of LPG. Commonly, tank lorry is used for inland transportation of LPG. If tank lorry were to raise leakage incidents and then LPG released during transporting, the accidents cause serious effects on the environment as well as human damage of surrounding area. In this study, therefore, hazards which cause LPG of tank lorry to leak during transportation were identified and risk of LPG transportation was assessed quantitatively. Also, the result of this study might be a useful measure for predicting damage and preparing safe transportation strategies of LPG tank lorry.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.131-135
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• 2013

In this study, to develop a light weight duo type aluminum LPG tank in stead of a conventional steel tank optimization technology is used. Two types of optimization method are carried out for internal compression test simulation of a LPG tank. The first is the thickness only optimization of LPG tank components. The second is the thickness and shape optimization. For the case of the thickness only optimization the weight reduction rate of an optimized tank compare to that of the initial design is 42%. Also 48% weight reduction was achieved for the case of the thickness and shape optimization.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.46-50
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 250kg 정도의 저장용량을 갖는 LPG 미니탱크에 대한 강도안전성을 FEM으로 해석하였다. FEM 해석결과에 의하면, 250kg의 저장용량을 갖는 LPG 미니탱크의 코너 반경은 175~205mm로 설계하는 것이 바람직한 것으로 나타났다. 일반적으로 가스저장탱크의 상하단부를 형성하는 경판의 코너 반경을 크게 설계할수록 강도 안전성은 높아지지만, 탱크의 내용적이 줄어들기 때문에 최적의 설계 데이터를 도출하는 것이 중요하다. 또한, 가스탱크의 강도를 안전하게 설계하기 위해 탱크의 두께를 두껍게 설계하려고 하지만, 두꺼운 강판을 사용하면 소재비와 운반비가 상승하므로 강판의 최적두께를 4.5~5.5mm에서 선정하는 것이 바람직하다. LPG 가스탱크의 액위를 측정하기 위해 사용하는 레벨게이지를 탱크의 측벽면에 구멍을 뚫어서 조립하는 기존의 방식보다 가스탱크의 중심축에 컬럼을 설치하는 레벨게이지 타입을 일체형으로 설계하는 것이 2배의 강도안전성을 높여주는 효과가 있다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.64-72
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to study the safety of a small LPG storage tank with a capacity less than 3 ton when it is exposed to an external fire. First, simulation studies were carried out using ASPEN Plus and PHAST to demonstrate that overpressurization in the tank can be relieved by discharging the LPG through an adequately sized safety valve, but the release may lead to the secondary risk of fire and explosion around the tank. Next, the temporal variations of the temperatures of the lading and tank wall were obtained using AFFTAC, which showed that the tank wall adjacent to the vapor space could be overheated in about 11 min to such a point that the weakened strength might cause a rupture of the tank and subsequent BLEVE. The consequences of the BLEVE were estimated using PHAST. Finally, several practical measures for preventing the hazards of overheating were suggested, including an anti-explosion device, sprinkling system, insulation, heat-proof coating, and enhanced safety factor for tank fabrication. The effectiveness of these measures were examined by simulations using AFFTAC and ASPEN Plus.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.98-102
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• 2010

LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) vehicles in metropolitan area are being applied to improve air quality and have been proven effective for the reduction of air pollutant. In addition, the demand of gas as an eco-friendly energy source has being increased. With the LPG filling station is also increasing every year. These gas stations are required to install the securest storage tank because of possibility of causing huge loss of life and property. Therefore, in this paper, underground containment type is proposed as installation of the LPG storage tank using Taguchi method, which is considered to be more safe, economical, efficient, easy checking and simple construction method than any other. If leakage, economics, real estate utilization rate, safety, easy to check, simple construct about above ground, buried underground and underground containment storage tank are analyzed by Taguchi method, real estate utilization rate, economic and safety in turn are improved. Therefore, the underground containment storage tank is a optimal installation technology.

• 한국방재안전학회논문집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2017

LPG는 사고발생시 사람이나 환경에 치명적인 피해를 가져올 수 있으므로 많은 주의가 필요한 물질이다. LPG는 고정시설 뿐 아니라 운송시설에서도 사고가 빈번하게 발생하며, 그 중 LPG 탱크로리의 사고가 가장 많다. LPG 탱크로리가 운송중 전도되었을 때 LP가스는 2상(two phase) 상태로 누출되어, 대부분 기체로 누출되고 일부분 액체로 누출된다. 이때 누출된 기체도 공기보다 무겁기 때문에 아래로 가라앉게 되고, 누출이 계속된다면 증기운을 형성하여 점화원에 의해 폭발할 수도 있다. 본 연구에서는 LPG 탱크로리의 증기운 폭발 사고 발생시 파편에 대한 영향거리를 분석하여 대피거리를 제시함을 목적으로 한다. 파편의 비산반경 산출 결과, 최대 561m 비산하였다. 따라서 LPG 탱크로리의 누출시 대피하여야 하는 거리는 561 m 이상으로 설정하는 것이 필요하다고 판단된다.

• 대한설비공학회지:설비저널
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.406-414
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• 1987

As one of the explosion suppression methods of LPG tank exposed to hot environment by an accident or fire, some material which has large heat capacity and thermal conductivity can be installed inside the LPG tank in order to suppress the temperature increasement of tank wall. In the present study, theoretical model for the horizontally locating cylindrical LPG tank with and without the aluminum explosion suppression material has been developed to predict the characteristics of system. As a parametric study, effects of two major parameters, thickness of material filling and initial vapor volume fraction, on the time variation of wall temperature, temperature and pressure in tank are numerically examined. The results of present study show that the thickness of material filling does not give big differences in the suppression characteristics when the thickness of filling is larger than three inches. In case of material filling, there are marked suppression effects to the increase-ment of wall temperature, average vapor temperature and pressure in tank compared with the case of no filling.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2006

소형저장탱크를 이용한 벌크공급시스템은 LP가스의 공급이 중단되거나 공급량이 부족하지 않도록 LP가스 사용가구의 최대가스소비량을 초과하는 가스량을 발생시켜 공급할 수 있어야 한다. 이때 벌크공급시스템에서 공급할 수 있는 가스량은 소형저장탱크의 가스발생능력이 되며, 소형저장탱크의 선정기준이 된다. 현재 우리나라는 소형저장탱크의 충전량, 연속사용시간 등에 따른 가스발생능력 산정기준이 없어 LP가스 사용가구수에 대하여 적합한 소형저장탱크의 선정이 어려운 상태로서 소형저장탱크의 원활한 보급에 문제가 되고 있다. 본 연구는 소형저장탱크의 선정기준이 되는 가스발생능력을 충전량, 외기온도, 연속사용시간 및 충전조성 등에 따라 산정하여 제시하고자 한다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.869-874
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• 2006

Fuel tank noise of the LPG vehicle is getting more important for reduction of vehicle noise, because major noise of the vehicle was reduced. Therefore, in this paper, Fuel tank noise and vibration are measured, then the modal analysis is applied for prediction of fuel tank noise. To predict fuel tank noise, various methods are applied by using FEM and BEM techniques

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.136-142
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• 2007

Fuel tank noise of the LPG vehicle is getting more important for reduction of vehicle noise, because major noise of the vehicle was reduced. Therefore, in this paper, Fuel tank noise and vibration are measured, then the modal analysis is applied for prediction of fuel tank noise. To predict fuel tank noise, various methods are applied by using FEM and BEM techniques.