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Technical Trends and Issues Related to Maintenance/Inspection Drones for Ships or Offshore Plants (선박/해양플랜트 유지보수 점검용 드론의 기술현황과 과제)

  • Kim, Kyunghwa;Chun, Kangwoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.585-594
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    • 2017
  • Drones, which were first developed for the military use, have been widely applied in various industrial fields through the rapid development of element technology. Following this trend, the marine industry has started to utilize drones for maintenance and inspection purposes, especially, in Europe. To extend the use of drones in the marine industry, this paper first discusses the necessity of drones for the marine use by presenting problems related to maintenance and inspection works on ships and offshore plants. In addition, the technical levels of advanced countries where drones have been commercialized already in the marine industry are mentioned. Furthermore, technical challenges that must be solved are explained in preparation for a drone era in the marine industry. Lastly, the potential growth of the drone market in the marine industry is considered.

Development of the Safety Management Risk Assessment Factors and Indicators for Coastal/Offshore Fishing Vessels (연근해어선의 안전관리 위험성평가 인자 및 지표개발)

  • Song, Byung-Hwa;Kim, Cheol-Seong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.783-788
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    • 2021
  • Although the Korean government (Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries) and related organizations are enforcing many policies to improve the marine safety of vessels with weak safety management, the effectiveness of each policy is deficient due to the lack of a risk assessment method for ship safety management. Most previous studies in Korea of the risk assessment of ships only dealt with fragmentary risks of individual marine accident risks, so a new assessment method for comprehensive marine accident risk is needed. Examples of comprehensive risk assessments for ship safety management are the selection method for inspection targets by the Port State Control and the Norwegian Maritime Authority. In this study, indicators for the comprehensive risk assessment of ship safety management were developed for and applied to coastal/offshore fishing vessels that occupy a high proportion of the registrations and marine accidents in Korea. As a result, the risk of each ship was confirmed quantitatively, and a ranking of the weakness factors for ship safety management was identified.

Practical Application of Remote-Sensing Data for Offshore Wind Resource Assessment (해상 풍력자원평가를 위한 원격탐사자료의 활용)

  • Kim, Hyun-Goo;Hwang, Hyo-Jeong;Kyong, Nam-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.319-320
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    • 2008
  • This paper introduces remote-sensing data which can be practically applied for offshore wind resource assessment. Development of offshore wind energy is inevitable for Korea to achieve the national dissemination target of renewable energy, i.e., 5% uptil 2010. However, the only available offshore in-situ measurement, marine buoy data would not represent areal wind characteristics. Consequently, remote-sensing technology has been started to apply to offshore wind resource assessment and is actively developing. Among them, NCAR/NCEP reanalysis dataset, QuikSCAT blended dataset, and offshore wind retrieval from SAR imagery are briefly summarized in this paper.

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Applications of Side Scan Sonar for Shipbuilding and Offshore Project (선박 및 해양플랜트 건조를 위한 측면주사음탐기 적용 사례)

  • O, Hyeong-Sun;Kim, Tae-Hyung;Kwon, Soon-Do;Kim, Sung-Rag;Shin, Sung-Il;Kim, Sang-Jun;Kim, Seong-Yeop;Woo, Jong-Sik
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.373-379
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    • 2015
  • Side Scan Sonar (SSS) is capable of acquiring real-time data for seabed scouring, bathymetry, mine countermeasurement, etc. In a shipyard, an SSS package is utilized to measure the water depth and find debris in the sea because a sufficient water depth and non-interruption have to be ensured before implementing an underwater installation such as a large thruster. This paper presents the application and operation method of an SSS for the construction of an offshore project.

Utilizing piezovibrocone in marine soils at Tauranga Harbor, New Zealand

  • Jorat, M. Ehsan;Morz, Tobias;Moon, Vicki;Kreiter, Stefan;de Lange, Willem
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2015
  • Piezovibrocones have been developed to evaluate the liquefaction potential of onshore soils, but have not yet been utilized to evaluate the in-situ liquefaction behavior of offshore marine and volcanoclastic sediments. Two static and vibratory CPTu (Cone Penetration Tests) were performed at Tauranga Harbor, New Zealand. The lithology is known from nearby drillholes and the influence of vibration on different types of marine soils is evaluated using the reduction ratio (RR) calculated from static and vibratory CPTu. A sediment layer with high potential for liquefaction and one with a slight reaction to cyclic loading are identified. In addition to the reduction ratio, the liquefaction potential of sediment is analyzed using classic correlations for static CPTu data, but no liquefaction potential was determined. This points to an underestimation of liquefaction potential with the classic static CPTu correlations in marine soil. Results show that piezovibrocone tests are a sensitive tool for liquefaction analysis in offshore marine and volcanoclastic soil.

Offshore Platform Installation Simulation Using Real-Time Maneuvering and Operation Simulator (Real-Time 조종 및 작업 시뮬레이터를 활용한 해양구조물 설치 작업 시뮬레이션)

  • Jonghyeon Lee;Solyoung Han;Dong-Woo Park
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.67-75
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    • 2023
  • In this study, the dynamic characteristics of an offshore platform being installed and physical phenomena are analyzed from the perspective of interaction between operation and maneuvering simulation using a real-time Maneuvering & Operation simulator of Shipbuilding & Marine Simulation Center at Tongmyong University. It was simulated to install the semi-submersible drilling rig moored by 8 mooring lines according to a scenario that is similar to it on the real sea, and 4 tug boats for position keeping of the rig and an offshore support vessel for hook-up of the mooring lines were operated. During the simulation, the motion, trajectory, tension of the objects were output in real time, and they were analyzed at each work procedure. This study about the simultaneous simulation of operation and maneuvering showed the detailed motion of the offshore platform and ships on the operation procedure and the interaction between operation and maneuvering in specific environment condition. Also, it confirmed that the simulation can be utilized to determine the possibility of offshore platform installation in specific situations.

Change of relative fishing power index from technological development in the offshore conger eel pot fishery (근해장어통발어업에서 어로기술발달에 따른 어획성능지수 변동)

  • SEO, Young-Il;JEONG, Geum-cheol;CHA, Hyung-kee;JO, Hyun-Su;LEE, Yoo-Won;JANG, Choong-Sik;AN, Young-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.56 no.1
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2020
  • The change of fishing power index was analyzed to identify the development of the vessel and gear technology that may improve the fishing efficiency of the offshore conger eel pot fishery from 1980s to 2015. Gross tonnage per fishing vessel was rapidly increased annually. The standard of pot was maintained, but the number of pot used rapidly increased by using conger eel pot hauling devices, carrying and loading devices, main line hauler, casting devices and slide type pot. Fish finder system to identify fishing ground information and the conger eel pot hauling devices were modernized, and supply rate was also increased. Therefore, the relative fishing power index in the offshore conger eel pot fishery increased from 1.0 in 1980 to 1.3 in 1990, to 1.8 in 2000 and to 2.0 in 2015. The results are expected to contribute to reasonable fisheries stock management of the offshore conger eel pot fishery.

Effect of the Bottom Slope on the Formation of Coastal Front and Shallow-Sea Structure during Cold-Air Outbreak

  • Cheong, Hyeong-Bin;Kim, Young-Seup;Hong, Sung-Keun;Cheong, Hyeong-Bin
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.93-102
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    • 1997
  • Coastal circulations during the (surface condition of an) idealized cold-air outbreak are numerically investigated with two-dimensional, non-hydrostatic model in which a constant bottom-slope exists. The atmospheric forcing during a cold-air outbreak is incorporated as the surface cooling and the wind stress. When the offshore angle of the wind-stress vector, defined as the angle measured from the alongshore axis, is smaller than 45 degrees, a strong downwelling circulation develops near the coast. A sharp density front, which separates the vertically homogeneous region from the offshore stratified region, is formed near the coast and propagates offshore with time. Onshore side of the density front, small-scale circulation cells which are aligned in the direction perpendicular to the bottom begin to develop as the near-coast homogeneous region broadens. The surface cooling enhances greatly the development of the surface mixed layer by convective motions due to hydrostatic instability. The convective motions reach far below the hydrostatically unstable layer which is attached to the surface. The small-scale circulation cells are appreciably modified by the convetion cell and the density front develops far offshore compared to the case of no surface cooling. As to the effect of the bottom slope, the offshore distance of the density front increases (decreases) as the bottom slope decreases (increases), which results from the fact that the onshore volume-transport (Ekman transport) of the low-density upper seawater remains almost constant when the wind-stress is maintained constant. It is shown that the bottom slope is an essential factor for the formation of both the density front and the alongshore current when the surface cooling is the only forcing.

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Analysis of the risk factors for offshore gillnet fisheries in the floating offshore wind farms based on AHP technique (AHP 기법을 이용한 부유식 해상 풍력 단지 내 근해자망어업 위험 요인 분석)

  • Jong-Kap AHN;You-Jin PARK;Yu-Jin JEONG;Young-Su AN
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.59 no.4
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    • pp.354-361
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    • 2023
  • In this study, the AHP (analytic hierarchy process) technique was used to analyze the risk of expected risk factors and fishing possibilities during gillnet fishing within the floating offshore wind farms (floating OWF). For this purpose, the risks that may occur during gillnet fishing within the floating offshore wind farms were defined as collisions, entanglements, and snags. In addition, the risk factors that cause these risks were classified into three upper risk factors and ten sub risk factors, and the three alternatives to gillnet fishing available within the floating OWF were classified and a hierarchy was established. Lastly, a survey was conducted targeting fisheries and marine experts and the response results were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, among the top risk factors, the risk was the greatest when laying fishing gear. The risk of the sub factors for each upper risk was found to be the highest at the berthing (mooring), the final hauling of fishing net, and the laying of the bottom layer net. Based on the alternatives, the average of the integrated risk rankings showed that allowing full navigation/fisheries had the highest risk. As a result of the final ranking analysis of the integrated risk, the overall ranking of allowing navigation/fisheries in areas where bottom layer nets were laid was ranked the first when moving vessels within the floating OWF was analyzed as the lowest integrated risk ranking of the 30th at the ban on navigation/fisheries. Through this, navigation was analyzed to be possible while it was analyzed that the possibility of gillnet fishing within the floating OWF was not high.