• 한국안전학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.31-34
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• 2001

Cause of Bucheon LPG refueling station accident could not be clearly verified because of opposite talking of men reponsible for the accident the accident, damaged by BLEVE and fire, and no systematic fire investigation. After two and half years, recently first judgement has been carried out. But competitive arguement is going on and first leak point of massive LPG will not be clearly identified with evidences acquired by now. This accident gave us many instructions and advices. Specially, massive LPG leak can result in pool fire and safety of underground-installed storage tank is proved by no damage in the strong BLEVE.

• 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.

• 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.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

LPG 충전소에서 발생하는 폭발의 피해를 Hopkinson의 삼승근법을 이용하여 계산하고, 건물과 인체에 미치는 영향을 프로빗 모델에 적용하여 피해예측을 평가하였다. 현재 국내에서 가장 많이 운용하는 20ton 저장탱크를 대상으로 누출량 10%를 프로빗 모델에 적용하여 계산하면 LPG 충전소에서의 안전거리는 각각 건물(손상)은 260m 이며, 인체(폐출혈 사망)는 30m이다.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2010년도 춘계학술발표논문집 2부
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• pp.949-952
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• 2010

The utilization of LPG(Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is increasing as an environmental-friendly fuel in all countries making green growth new paradigm, and use of gas is spread fast as motor fuels to decrease air pollution. Loss of lives by explosion and fire is happening every year as gas use increases, and gas accident in large scale storage property is causing serious problems socially. To minimize this problem, underground containment type storage tank is being presented as an alternative recently. In this study, to minimize explosion occurrence in underground containment type storage tank, the suitable storage tank is designed to consider explosion prevention that makes exposure surface area minimize in confined contents volume and flame to construct storage tank by the most suitable condition in the underground containment room. As a result of the design of storage tank having the most suitable condition by this research, underground containment space was minimized on diameter 3m, length 4.83m in 20 tons storage tank and its safety was improved as exposure surface area in flame decreased by 89.4%, compared with the existent storage tank.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.74-83
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• 2020

In Korea, about 110,000 LPG small storage tanks of less than three tons have been installed in restaurants, houses and factories, and are used as LPG supply facilities for cooking, heating and industrial use. In the case of combustible liquefied gas storage tanks, the tank may rupture due to the temperature increase of the tank steel plate (approximately 600℃) even when the safety valve is operating normally, causing large-scale damage in an instant. Therefore, in the event of a fire near the LPG small storage tank, it is necessary to accurately predict the timing of the BLEVE(Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion) outbreak in order to secure golden time for lifesaving and safely carry out fire extinguishing activities. In this study, we have first investigated the results of a prior study on the prediction of the occurrence of BLEVE in the horizontal tanks. And we have developed thermodynamic models and simulation program on the prediction of BLEVE that can be applied to vertical tanks used in Korea, have studied the effects of the safety valve's ability to vent, heat flux strength of external fires, size of tanks, and gas remaining in tanks on the time of BLEVE occurrence and have suggested future utilization measures.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2020

Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion(BLEVE) can cause not only economic damage to the plant but also serious casualties. LPG accidents account for 89.6 percent of all accidents caused by gas leaks in Korea over the past nine years, while casualties from accidents also account for 73 percent of all accidents, according to statistics from the Korea Gas Safety Corporation. In addition, a potential explosion and a fire accident from one LPG storage tank may affect the nearby storage tanks, causing secondary and tertiary damage (domino effect). The safety distance standards for LPG used by LPG workplaces, charging stations, and homes in Korea have become stricter following the explosion of LPG charging stations in Bucheon. The safety distance regulation is divided into regulations based on the distance damage and the risk including frequency. This study suggests two approaches to optimizing the safety distance based on the just consequence and risk including frequencies. Using the Phast 7.2 Risk Assessment software by DNV GL, the explosion overpressure and heat radiation were derived according to the distance caused by BLEVE in the worst-case scenario, and accident and damage probability were derived by considering the probit function and domino effect. In addition, the safety distance between LPG tanks or LPG charging stations was derived to minimize damage effects by utilizing these measures.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.319-327
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• 2023

이 연구의 목적은 고속도로 휴게소에 설치된 소형 LPG 저장탱크의 폭발에 따른 영향범위를 분석하는데 있다. 이를 위해 휴게소에 설치된 2,900 kg 소형 LPG 저장탱크의 증기운 폭발(VCE)과 비등액체팽창증기 폭발(BLEVE)로 인한 과압과 복사열의 영향범위를 ALOHA(Areal Location of Hazardous Atmospheres)프로그램을 적용하여 정량적으로 평가하였다. 도출된 폭발 과압과 복사열의 영향범위는 각각 최대 반경 336 m와 423 m로 나타났다. 269 m 이내의 사람들은 3.5 psi이상의 과압으로 중상을 입을 수 있고, 192 m 이내의 사람들은 10 kw/m²이상의 복사열로 사망할 수 있는 것으로 예측되었다. 나아가 고속도로 휴게소 부대시설과 피해 영향범위를 고려한 LPG 저장 탱크의 안전관리 방안에 대해 논의하였다. 이러한 연구 결과는 고속도로 휴게소에 설치된 소형 LPG 저장탱크의 안전관리뿐만 아니라 휴게소 환경 및 시설을 고려한 안전사고 예방 규정 개선에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2010

환경친화적인 에너지원으로서 가스의 수요가 날로 급증하고 있다. 이와 함께 LPG 자동차 충전소가 점진적으로 늘어나고 있다. 본 연구에서는 LPG 충전소에서 발생하는 증기운폭발 과압의 피해를 Hopkinson의 삼승근법을 이용하여 계산하고, 인체에 미치는 영향을 프로빗 모델에 적용하여 피해예측을 평가하였다. 현재 국내에서 가장 많이 운용하는 20ton 저장탱크를 대상으로 누출량 10%를 프로빗 모델에 적용하여 계산하면 LPG 충전소에서의 이격 거리는 각각 인체에 손상가능거리는 36.5m, 고막파열 손상가능거리는 290m이다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.44-49
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• 2010

This paper is estimation of structure damage caused by Explosion in LPG(Liquefied Petroleum Gas) filling station. As we estimate the influence of damage which occur at gas storage tank in filling station. We can utilize the elementary data of safety distance. In this study, the influence of over-pressure caused by VCE(Vapor Cloud Explosion) in filling station was calculated by using the Hopkinson's scaling law and the accident damage was estimated by applying the influence on the adjacent structure into the probit model. As a result of the damage estimation conducted by using the probit model, both the damage possibility of explosion overpressure to structures of max 265 meters away and to glass bursting of 1150 meters away was nearly zero in open space explosion.