• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.49-68
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• 2012

In this paper, an offshore process front end engineering design (FEED) method is systematically introduced and reviewed to enable efficient offshore oil and gas production plant engineering. An integrated process engineering environment is also presented for the topside systems of a liquefied natural gas floating production, storage, and offloading (LNG FPSO) unit, based on the concepts and procedures for the process FEED of general offshore production plants. Various activities of the general process FEED scheme are first summarized, and then the offshore process FEED method, which is applicable to all types of offshore oil and gas production plants, is presented. The integrated process engineering environment is presented according to the aforementioned FEED method. Finally, the offshore process FEED method is applied to the topside systems of an LNG FPSO in order to verify the validity and applicability of the FEED method.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.265-277
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• 2010

In this study, an offshore process FEED(Front End Engineering Design) method is systematically established to perform integrated process engineering for topsides systems of LNG FPSO(Floating, Production, Storage, and Off-loading unit) based on the concepts and procedures for the process FEED of general offshore production plants. First, various activities of the general process FEED engineering are summarized, and then the offshore process FEED method, which is suitable for application to all types of offshore oil and gas production plants, is proposed. Second, an integrated process engineering environment is built based on the proposed FEED method. Finally, the integrated process engineering environment is applied to topsides systems of an LNG FPSO in order to verify the validity and applicability of the proposed FEED method. As a result, it is shown that the proposed FEED method can be applied to the process FEED engineering of FPSOs and moreover will be able to contribute to perform successful offshore projects in the future.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.689-701
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• 2017

In recent offshore industries, various ambiguous terms have been used without clear definition or classification, causing difficulties in legal, technical, and educational understanding and usage. For an example, the commonly used term of 'Offshore Plant' in Korea is not an universal word technically. There has been no clear technical or legal definition about the 'Offshore Plant' and its classification is also very ambiguous; sometimes it is used to refer offshore oil and gas production platform or it is used to mean offshore renewable power generation plant in some cases. To build a conceptual framework, therefore, this paper suggests a classification of offshore units (1) using internationally agreed terms, (2) agreed with the technical classification used by the ship classification society and (3) being able to include not only the current but also future concepts of offshore units.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2017

Semi-submersible drilling rigs are offshore plants that perform functions such as ocean exploration for oil and gas acquisition, drilling and production, and storage and unloading of crude oil and gas. Semi-submersible drilling rigs use watertight dampers as emergency buoyancy holders. Since the watertight damper is an emergency shutoff device, it is mainly driven by a pneumatic driving system that can operate without a power supply. The pneumatic driving system has highly non-linear characteristics due to compressibility of air and external disturbance such as static and Coulomb friction. In this paper, a new control algorithm is proposed for a watertight damper driving system based on the sliding mode control with a disturbance observer. To evaluate control performance and robust stability of the designed controller, the control results were compared with the results obtained using the state feedback controller. As a result, it was confirmed that the pneumatic driving system for driving the watertight damper using the sliding mode controller with a disturbance observer can obtain excellent control performance against the parameter changes and the disturbance input.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.107-117
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• 2008

국내 건설산업은 해외 시장에서 경쟁력을 높이기 위해 각종 R&D투자를 늘리고 있는 실정으로 본 연구에서는 국내 건설산업이 해외 건설시장에서 경쟁력을 보유하고 있는 대표 건설상품에 대한 경쟁력을 종합적이고 다각적으로 평가하였다. 이를 위하여 기존 연구에서 실시한 기업의 경쟁력과 기술수준을 평가한 자료를 근거로 기술수준을 측정할 기술수준지표와 기술수준 측정방법론을 선정하였으며, 기존연구에서 부족하였던 기술수준 및 기술경쟁력 평가의 심층성에 대한 보완 방안으로 해외 경쟁력 보유 상품을 선별한 후, 관련 업무 전문가를 대상으로 기술수준을 평가하였다. 전문가 대상 요소는 '기술경쟁력', '경영 및 지원 경쟁력'을 대상으로 실시하였으며 각 요소의 평가 점수를 통하여 선진국과의 경쟁력 보유여부를 평가하였다. 이러한 평가결과를 토대로 국내 건설 산업이 시장측면이나 기술측면에서 해외시장에서 경쟁이 가능한 유망 상품을 도출하고 국제경쟁력을 증대할 수 있는 방안에 대하여 연구를 진행하였다.