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Virtual Design and Construction (VDC)-Aided System for Logistics Monitoring: Supply Chains in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Plant Construction

  • Moon, Sungkon;Chi, Hung-Lin;Forlani, John;Wang, Xiangyu
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.195-199
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    • 2015
  • Many conventional management methods have emphasized the minimization of required resources along the supply chain. Accordingly, this paper presents a proposed method called the Virtual Design and Construction (VDC)-aided system. It is based on object-oriented resource control, in order to accomplish a feed-forward control monitoring supply chain logistics. The system is supported by two main parts: (1) IT-based Technologies; and (2) VDC Models. They enable the system to convey proactive information from the detection technology to its linked visualization. The paper includes a field study as the system's pre-test: the Scaffolding Works in a LNG Mega Project. The study demonstrates a system of real-time productivity monitoring by use of the RFIDbased Mobile Information Hub. The on-line 'productivity dashboard' provides an opportunity to display the continuing processes for each work-package. This research project offers the observed opportunities created by the developed system. Future work will entail research experiments aimed towards system validation.

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Investment Decisions for Clean Development Mechanism under Uncertain Energy Policies using Real Option

  • Taeil Park;Changyoon Kim;Hyoungkwan Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.107-110
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    • 2013
  • Recently, Korea parliament legislated the Low Carbon Green Growth Act (April, 2012) and approved a bill (May, 2012) to start carbon emission trading system in 2015. It means that for the first time, government would regulate the amounts of carbon emission in private entities, and private entities should attain predefined emission reduction goals by implementing clean development mechanism (CDM) project or buy the Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) from the trading market to avoid penalty. Under these circumstances, it is not easy for them to determine when or how to implement the CDM project because the governmental energy policies about the level of governmental subsidies, periods for free emission allocation, etc. are still under discussion and the future price of the CERs is quite uncertain. Thus, this study presents a real-option based model to assess the financial viability of the CDM project which switches bunker-C oil to liquefied natural gas (LNG). The proposed model is expected to assist private entities in establishing the investment strategy for CDM project under uncertain government energy policies.

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Enhancement of the energy efficiency of hydrogen SOFC system by integrated cold energy utilization and waste heat recovery method

  • Nguyen Quoc Huy;Duong Phan Anh;Ryu Bo Rim;Lee Jin Uk;Kang Ho Keun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2022.11a
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    • pp.160-161
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    • 2022
  • Hydrogen is bridge fuel with high energy content and environmentally friendly to satisfy the stringent IMO regulation relating to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There is growing interest in hydrogen in numerous nations and regions illustrated by an extensive range of research and development in technology. Regarding maritime applications, researchers have recognized the utilization of hydrogen as a fuel for fuel cells, a device that converts the chemical energy of the fuel to electrical energy. Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), with high working temperature, is easy to combine with the waste heat recovery cycles/devices to increase output power and thermodynamic performances as well. Furthermore, the cold energy from liquid hydrogen supplied to SOFC can also be used to generate more power. In this study, we proposed a SOFC integrated system with the idea of combining the waste heat recovery from the SOFC exhaust stream and cold energy utilization from LH2. The designation is aimed to target small-scale vessel which uses electric propulsion for short distances voyage.

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Low Cycle Fatigue Performance of 304L Stainless Steel Weldments (304L 스테인리스 강 용접부의 저주기 피로 성능 평가)

  • Hwang, JaeHyoen;Oh, DongJin;Lee, DoYoung;Chun, MinSung;Kim, Myung-Hyun
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.47-51
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    • 2016
  • Recently, the market of liquefied natural gas is growing in accordance with shale gas development and environmentally friendly policies. Also, LNG is in the spotlight as an alternative fuel to previously used fossil fuel and the fuel for the ship to meet emission standards which takes effected by IMO (International Maritime Organization). According to growth of LNG, LNG carriers needs are also expected to increase significantly. This study investigates low cycle fatigue (LCF) performance of 304L stainless steel weldments to investigate fatigue performance in plastic strain region. 304L stainless steel is known to have improved fatigue performance at cryogenic conditions. LCF behavior are investigated by a strain-controlled condition up to 1% strain range and conducted with three different thickness (3mm, 5mm, 10mm). Also, test were performed with three different strain ratio R such as R = -1, -0, 0.5, Finally, the fatigue design curve for 304L stainless steel weldments at room tem- perature are proposed. Considering all test conditions, it is shown that LCF performance have similar tendency regardless of thickness and strain ratio. LCF design curve of 304L stainless steel weldments are lower than 304L stainless steel base metal.

Structure Analysis and Design Optimization of Stiffeners in LNG Tanks (LNG 저장탱크 보강재의 구조해석 및 최적설계)

  • Jin, Cheng-Zhu;Jin, Kyo-Kook;Ha, Sung-Kyu;Seo, Heung-Seok;Yoon, Ihn-Soo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.325-330
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    • 2012
  • This paper describes the structural analysis and optimization of stiffeners used in inner tanks for liquid natural gas (LNG) storage, so that the costs can be minimized while the critical buckling load of the inner tank still exceeds the external pressure exerted by the perlite. The original calculation of perlite pressure applied to the inner tank was based on Zick's code, which led to the overestimation of the external pressure, and consequently, an oversized stiffener. In this study, the effects of the material properties of perlite on the external pressure distribution are scrutinized, and the optimum dimensions of a single stiffener are finally obtained through a series of parametric studies. A 15% decrease in the cost of the stiffener compared with the original design is achieved.

A Study on Estimation of NOx and CO Emission Factor from Industrial and Commercial LNG Boilers (천연가스 사용 난방 및 산업보일러의 NOx와 CO 배출계수 산정 연구)

  • Jang, Young-Kee;Choi, Sang-Jin;Kim, Kwan;Song, Ki-Pong;Kim, Ho-Jung;Jung, Bong-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.615-623
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    • 2004
  • This study was conducted for developing the emission factors of nitrogen oxide(NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) from the combustion boilers burning liquefied natural gas (LNG). These emission factors were compared with those of U.S. EPA and European Environment Agency (EEA). NOx and CO concentration in the flow gas were measured using Kane-May, KM9106 and Thermo Environmental Instruments Inc., 42C-HL. Measurement were conducted at thirty industrial and commercial LNG boilers. Emission factors were calculated on the basis of fuel consumption (kg-pollutant/㎥-fuel burned). NOx concentration at industrial boiler was 14~125 ppm and it was measured as 35~125 ppm at commercial boiler. NOx emission factors of industrial boiler and commercial boiler were 1.84kg/$m^3$ and 2.09kg/$m^3$, respectively. NOx emission factor of commercial boiler was higher than that of industrial boiler. The NOx emission factors estimated in this study were lower than those of U.S. EPA and higher than those of EEA. Average CO emission factor of industrial boiler was 0.65 kg/$m^3$ and at commercial boiler it was 0.70kg/$m^3$, CO emission factor at industrial boiler was lower than that at commercial boiler.

A Study on the Evaluations of Damage Impact due to VCE in Liquid Hydrogen Charging Station (액화수소 충전스테이션에서 VCE로 인한 피해영향평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Suji;Chon, Young Woo;Lee, Ik Mo;Hwang, Yong Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.56-63
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    • 2017
  • Hydrogen charging station was invested and supported around the world. In this study, the extent of damage caused by VCE in the charging station handling liquefied hydrogen was calculated, and the human and material damage was estimated through the Probit model. In addition The optimal height of vent stack for low temperature hydrogen was set. The damage range is 8.24m in small scale, 14.10m in medium scale, and 22.38m in large scale based on interest overpressure 6.9kPa. In case of death due to pulmonary hemorrhage, 50m of the small and medium scale and 100m of the large scale were injured. Structural damage was 200m in small scale, 300m in medium scale and 500m in large scale. The optimum height of the vent stack is 4.7 m in small scale, 8.8 m in medium scale and 16.9 m in large scale.

Numerical analysis of LNG vaporizer heat transfer characteristic in LNG fuel ship (선박용 액화천연가스 기화기의 열전달 특성의 수치해석)

  • Lee, Dae-Chul;Afrianto, Handry;Chung, Han-Shik;Jeong, Hyo-Min
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.22-28
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    • 2013
  • The heat transfer characteristics of LNG(Liquefied Natural Gas) vaporizer on the ship was performed by numerical simulation to get the optimum NG(Natural Gas) generating condition. The glycol-water was used for heating in LNG vaporizer, and the cooling water of main engine was used as heating souse for glycol-water. This cooling water temperature increases again after recirculating from the main engine, and then it can be used to heat the glycol-water. The numerical analysis results has good agreement with the experimental results by liquid nitrogen for validation. So CFD technique was used to simulate the heat transfer characteristics of LNG vaporizer on the ship. The numerical results show that the operation condition of LNG vaporizer shows NG temperature of $6^{\circ}C$ in the outlet of LNG vaporizer, and the mass flow rates of LNG and glycol-water were showed 0.111 kg/s and 1.805 kg/s, respectively.

A Study on the Transition of Hydrogen-Air and LPG-Air Explosion to Fire (수소와 액화석유 가스의 공기혼합기의 폭발 후 화재로 전이 연구)

  • Oh Kyu-Hyung;Lee Sung-Eun;Rhie Kwang-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.19 no.4 s.68
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    • pp.150-154
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    • 2004
  • Gas explosion characteristics of hydrogen and liquefied petroleum gas(LPG) were measured in 6L cylindrical vessel, and experiment for explosion to fire transition phenomena of the gases were carried out using the 270L vessel. Explosion characteristics were measured using the stain type pressure transducer and explosion to fire transition phenomena was analyzed with the hish-speed camera. Base on the experiment, it was found that explosion pressure was most high slightly above the stoichiometric concentration, and explosion pressure rise rate and flame propagation velocity were proportional to the combustion velocity. And we find that those kind of explosion characteristics affect the explosion-to-fire transition, in addition, explosion flame temperature, flame residence time, are important parameters in explosion-to-fire transition.

Laboratory and Meta Analysis for 9% NI Steel of Liquified Natural Gas Carrier (LNG 저장 탱크 운반선 9% Ni Steel의 용접성에 대한 실험분석과 메타분석 연구)

  • Park, Sang Heup;Ahn, Duck Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.12
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    • pp.670-677
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    • 2016
  • Laboratory and meta-analyses were done for 9% NI Steel for use in a liquefied natural gas carrier. The meta-analysis is based on a previous study. The laboratory analysis examines the effects of a single pass and multiple passes on the tensile strength through an impulse-response test. The tensile strength increased from pass one to pass three and decreased from pass four to pass ten. The pass and multi-pass welding had a positive effect on the tensile strength. Lastly, the welding and tensile time had a positive effect on the tensile strength.